June 2009
58 posts
An Idler's Glossary →
Jun 29th
Jun 28th
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Fireworks Paintings by Rosemarie Fiore →
“I bomb blank sheets of paper with different fireworks including color smoke bombs, jumping jacks, monster balls, fountains, magic whips, spinning carnations, ground blooms, rings of fire, and lasers. As I work, I create imagery by controlling the chaotic nature of the explosions in upside-down containers. When the paper becomes saturated in color, dark and burned, I take it back to my...
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
Picasso: Drawing With Light - Photo Gallery, 13... →
Jun 28th
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Jun 26th
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Disused Railway Lines →
Jun 26th
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Jun 26th
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The St. Louis Refugee Ship Blues  →
By Art Spiegelman
Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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The Success of African Pentacostalism →
Jun 25th
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Summer Drinks Issue - A Guide to Bartending When... →
Jun 25th
There Will be Blood: Neda Agha Soltan’s... →
Jun 25th
Jun 25th
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Hidden Los Angeles →
embracing the depth beneath the shallow
Jun 24th
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John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary... →
Jun 23rd
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James B. Wallace, "Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers:... →
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Ray Bradbury is 88, loves libraries and Bo Derek,... →
Jun 23rd
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Infrastructure for Souls →
Tracing the parallel histories of the American megachurch and the corporate-organizational complex.
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Digital History - belatedly in honor of Juneteenth →
A letter by freedman Jourdon Anderson of Dayton, Ohio. He was writing in response to an invitation from Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Springs, Tenn., his former enslaver, to return to as a laborer to the plantation where he was once held captive.
Jun 19th
You Say You Want A Revolution (In a Loose... →
Jun 19th
Jun 18th
Jun 18th
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Igloos, Turkish caves, and other great places to... →
N3, or Slow-wave = Supersleep.
Jun 18th
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The Chain Never Stops | Mother Jones →
American slaughterhouses and the lives of meatpackers
Jun 16th
Colum McCann on Bloomsday, Family, History and... →
NY Times Op Ed
Jun 16th
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“The recession of the ’80s transformed the working class into the working poor,...”
– Too Poor to Make the News
Jun 15th
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In Mexican City, Drug War Ills Slip Into Shadows  →
Report from Nuevo Laredo
Jun 15th
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65 Years of Photography in Mexico  →
(Research at the Getty)
Jun 15th
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Jun 15th
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Why your brain just can't remember that word - New... →
Jun 12th
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“INTERVIEWER: Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after...”
– The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 12, Interview with William Faulkner
Jun 11th
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Search Magazine — Forgive and Forget? →
Rwanda’s warring population has a lot to account for, and a lot to reconcile — The science of forgiveness.
Jun 11th
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Jun 10th
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Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp Modernism →
Part I
Jun 9th
Part II →
Jun 9th
Part III →
Jun 9th
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Gómez Palacio →
Short Story by Roberto Bolaño, From “Last Evenings on Earth & Other Stories,” Translated by Chris Andrews
Jun 9th
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Roberto Bolaño: Dance Card →
From “Last Evenings on Earth & Other Stories,” Translated by Chris Andrews.
Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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“Margarita Where the margarita was invented and by whom is a matter of much...”
– Saveur
Jun 8th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Still struggling – Fela Kuti's family fights on →
The legendary nightclub that carries on the family tradition for music and protest has been shut down once again by the Nigerian authorities, angered by its activism.
Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
Jun 3rd
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Jun 3rd