Year: 2007
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Flattery
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.James Fenton
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Are these extravagant consequences?
If I am careless about this phase of my development, I will be lost before I am halfway through. I will renew my obsession with alcohol and sacrifice all true happiness. I will forget the word serenity and have no peace. No matter how far down the scale I have already gone I will fall…
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Children’s Logic
“Give me a sentence about a public servant,” said a teacher. The small boy wrote:“The fireman came down the ladder pregnant.” The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. “Don’t you know what pregnant means?” she asked.Sure,” said the young boy confidently. “It means carrying a child.”A grandmother was surprised by her 7 year…
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That Wacky Web
Women in ArtMaking artifacts from an alternative age…Ji Lee’s Abstractor: finally, TV is watchable.Oingo Boingo on the Gong Show“ReacTable,” the DJ turntable of the futureSkydiving from over 100,000 feetKeep on Truckin’History of the Luddites, shown on a hand-cranked zoetropeUgly mailboxesClassic game show videosIan’s Shoelace Site shows you how to lace your shoes 31 different waysHigh…
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Pitch in
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe