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• New Lefty Outrage: Gasp, Sarah Palin Flies in Planes!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  Al Gore flies all across the world destroying the environment with his travels so that he can sell the fantasy of globaloney. Hundreds of government officials will be crisscrossing the globe flying to Copenhagen to “save the planet” at the upcoming Climate Conference this December. All are adding to what leftists ...
  14 hours ago

• PAINT BY NUMBER: ANONYMOUS WORK FROM MID 20TH CENTURY AMERICA

  
  See Saw — Authority: 116
  Paint By Number, the craze of the 195s, swept the nation in the era of Eisenhower, Levittown, post war prosperity and a post war concept of leisure time.   Paint By Number, Paris In The Rain Most of the Paint By Number sets of the fifties and early sixties depicted nostalgic scenes, historic and pastoral ...
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• INTRODUCTION.IN placing before my readers in the following...

  
  Screwtop Winebottle — Authority: 436
  INTRODUCTION. IN placing before my readers in the following pages the results of my twenty-five years’ experience of Rat-catching, Ferreting, &c.;, I may say that I have always done my best to accomplish every task that I have undertaken, and I have in consequence received excellent testimonials from many ...
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• Russ Dotter Designs Houses

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 122
  recently framed Guest House in Marin County, designed by Russ Dotter My friend Russ Dotter designs houses that both anchor and enliven a site, as though the house and its surroundings grew up together through generations of mindful co-habitation. He has a gift for combining contemporary construction methods and a ...
  4 days ago

• Ethics and Power in Sudanic Africa

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 124
  The second part of my review of Patrick Chabal, Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, is posted at African Arguments. In this, I try to trace some of the key features of rule by the Sudanic kingdoms, arguing that they present a special case of patronage/clientelism, which both vindicates and elaborates ...
  4 days ago

• Guy J – Ballroom [BED84]

  
  Minimal Freaks — Authority: 163
  Artist: Guy J Album: Ballroom Label: Bedrock Records Cat.#: BED84 Source: WEB WebStore: beatport.com Genre: Techno Codec: MP3 RipDate: 30-11-2009 Bitrate: 320 kbps Length: 00:23:43 Sampling: 44.1 kHz Size: 54.6megs StereoMode: Full Stereo Tracks: 1. Ballroom (Original Mix) 7:56 2. Ballroom (Ed Davenport’s Tribute ...
  5 days ago

• Ethics and Power in Africa

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 124
  I have published the first part of a two-part review of Patrick Chabal’s Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, on the African Arguments website. The first part is a general review of Bayart’s book, focusing on his treatment of patronage and clientelism. The second part will seek to explore the relevance ...
  5 days ago

• Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 210

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 130
  Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 210 , originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive) .
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• Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 209

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 130
  Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 209 , originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive) .
  1 week ago

• Northwest air

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 131
  I guess the good thing about forgetting to open the bathroom window before going to sleep is that now I know that it really helps. I mean I never suspected that it didn’t help, but now I really know. Because I wake up with so much congestion in my nose, just from the lack of air circulating -- the other windows were ...
  1 week ago

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  me melodia — Authority: 428
  A holiday that Is only about eating And being thankful Have a great Thanksgiving. Im off to spend time with my coo-coo family. Check out verne ackular for great vintage shots of other peoples odd families. Its a good resource for quarky vernacular photography. I love the selection of images and titles.
  1 week ago

• Roses

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 131
  But I don’t like where all this is leading -- I want to tell you about the time JoAnne finally came to Boston, after Gabby and I had moved into our own place, we had a three bedroom to ourselves. JoAnne loved the list I had tacked up on the wall in the living room, actually it was all of my daily lists taped ...
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• Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 208

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 130
  Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 208 , originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive) .
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• Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 207

  
  NEWSgrist - where spin is art — Authority: 130
  Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 207 , originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive) .
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• Hippies Versus Rednecks

  
  Deep Craft — Authority: 122
  Wherever I travel I try to document roadside, vernacular architecture. Often times a journey to another region refocuses my attention when I come home to the Pacific Coast of Northern California. I was struck by these two structures over the past week, which pretty much typify the working class, domestic landscape of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Day 56 (Round IV) "In the trenches": hit-by-a-bus edition

  
  Coyotebanjo — Authority: 126
  The universe can be a motherin cold and hard place, full of suffering. Theres a reason that the FIRST of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is "Life is suffering", though I prefer the slightly more nuanced "All lives contain suffering". One of the reasons that I follow the Eightfold Path ("right view, right ...
  2 weeks ago

• Word of the year: 'unfriend'

  
  The Daily Dish| The Daily Dish blog, Catherine E. Toth | honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 126
  Who wouldve thought that removing someone from your friend list on Facebook would become the New Oxford American Dictionarys 2009 Word of the Year? Well, "unfriend" is. ( Merriam-Websters pick for word of the year was admonish, a verb dating back to the 14 century that means to express warning or disapproval, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Santhali literature is booming, but needs government help

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  By Madhusree ChatterjeeJamshedpur, Nov 19 (IANS) Contemporary Santhali literature has taken off in a big way since it became an official language of Jharkhand in 2003, but it has not come of age because the government has not added it to the list of official Indian languages, says a pioneer of the Santhali book ...
  2 weeks ago

• Corruption in vernacular press

  
  The Chindu — Authority: 126
  I read with interest the below articles by Mrinal Pande on the corruption in vernacular press. The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Hindi media and an unreal discourse The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : The gains from masking reality Elections expose the underbelly of our dysfunctional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jiggity-jig

  
  Coyotebanjo — Authority: 126
  Home again, home again, only somewhat bruised and battered after 5 weekends away in 6 weeks. Younguns played great, down south of here. Anticipating return to regular blogging schedule tomorrow. In the meantime, heres (one set of) the 100 best quotes from the greatest television program ever created: Sheeeit. ...
  2 weeks ago

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