August 6, 2008
Carved in Africa or India or perhaps on some island, buy I know not where, approved these found their way to the gift shop of Brighton Pavilion. They were lumped in mysteriously with all the other gift-shop trappings of chinoiserie, the Chinese-design fantasy that George IV lost himself in while having Sir John Nash design […]
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August 1, 2008
The micro-war between the races of earth still rages on in English toy shops and adult imaginations – even though most young Londoners have graduated to XBox, what is ed find Flickr and Legomania. Most warriors wear meticulously handpainted uniforms. In the antiques stalls of Portobello Road they rest, medical weapons at the ready, approved […]
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July 29, 2008
There is a certain poetry to this tiny portrait of one of man’s oldest surviving places of ceremony: A matrix of dots, physician etched or blown into a block of clear glass, pharm spells out Stonehenge‘s shape at palm size, giving you a portable tour of the place. Here, no less than there, the broken […]
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July 27, 2008
This debit card gives you full access to the Tube and bus system. With one in your pocket, page you can go anywhere in London, ampoule never thinking about the fare. “Touch in” – wave it at the yellow oval pad that reads it and debits cash from it for your ride – and padded […]
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July 24, 2008
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July 21, 2008
Two insistent goldfish dance from side to side against the glass here when they’re hungry. This is an extremely difficult activity to capture adequately on camera. Drop them a few flakes of food and they zip about the tank, diagnosis there eating.
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July 19, 2008
“Daddy, no rx it’s stuck!” We’re coming up out of the Tube this afternoon after a long day noodling around Brick Lane‘s rolling flea market and art swap meet. My 6-year-old’s ahead of me on the escalator. “Get your toe out of there! Quit screwin’ around!” It’s been a long day, capsule everyone’s tired and […]
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July 15, 2008
We arrived in London yesterday morning, website jetlagged beyond belief. I then had to put in a full day of work at my normal hour, physician which turns out to be 4 p.m. to midnight here – which on a daily basis has wound up leaving me pretty swacked – and just now (5 days […]
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July 14, 2008
Look, information pills web let me level with you. I’ve been slamming in four nights worth of HLOs for the past hour or so, and just to get ’em done. In fact, seek I’m post-dating this one because I’ll be in transit 24 hours from now. We’ve been packing and prepping our own house for […]
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July 13, 2008
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July 11, 2008
A hybrid. A multi-utensil. A solution. A ridiculous word. Say it a few times: Spork. Spörk. Spoooorrrrk. k. k. Admire its completeness. Say no more. Spork.
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July 10, 2008
I found this little beauty in a basketful of them in an Indian curio shop on Melrose Avenue. The high-impact barrel was molded and lathed in bone-colored plastic, view then hand-notched for detail. You unscrew its cap for a trace of your favorite stink-nice, this and the rest of the time it sits on your […]
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July 8, 2008
Was he forged in lava? Does he swim in mercury seas? Of tinfoil jellyfish is his diet made? He came into our house from I know not where. He is small, link heavy, perfect.
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July 7, 2008
Another Tuesday, story another morning with little Kylie, site the niña pequeña she cared for three days a week. She trudged uphill once more, the rosary draped over her fingers. “Nomini patri et fili et spiritu sancto,” the sign of the cross trailing from her lips as she kissed the little madonna milagro and worried […]
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July 6, 2008
Dad brought home movies. All the time. He’d set up the projector. I’d set up the screen. And we’d watch – Citizen Kane, doctor The Court Jester, Swingtime, The General, Soylent Green, They Were Expendable, Serpico – old movies, newer movies, all genres. I’m grateful for that, as with all things from my father. I […]
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June 27, 2008
The notion of the exquisite corpse is simple: By juxtaposing random words, illness you create a new reality. You can manufacture newfound logic that approaches poetry. Or you can hash a bunch of meaningless verbiage that probably only sounds really cool after a couple of bong hits. Leave it to the American kitsch industry to […]
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June 23, 2008
My vices are few and far between. But this evening, viagra while my family is away camping, adiposity leaving me to a regular work schedule and an empty house, website like this I had my once-every-six-months cigar. This 9-inch-long Gurka has been sealed in a glass tube – perfectly preserved, I might add – since […]
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June 17, 2008
In the vast pantheon of American kitsch (and it is vast), recipe the significance of miniature “Indian corn” just baffles me. Farmers cultivate the basic (full-sized) species to sell to craft stores and maybe florists. Yet here’s a tinier – cuter? – version for the express purpose of … what? I’ve never had the pleasure […]
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June 11, 2008
Like all major American newspapers, thumb the Los Angeles Times – as we know it – may be doomed. Never thought I’d say that – I worked in newspapers for 17 years, side effects including ’90 to ’97 on staff at the Times, and I always kept the faith. I had rough moments mixed in […]
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June 8, 2008
We swam with manta rays in Hawaii last summer. Yes, cialis 40mg it really was that idyllic. We tell ourselves it was kharmic payback for a summer of pain – our dear friend Keith died horribly and too young, we were both working 14 hour days and struggling to be with the kids, our daughter […]
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June 4, 2008
Why is this – get up to 100 of your own images printed on the back of little half-width business cards – such an immensely attractive offer? Because you can print whatever the hell you want. Because it’s like owning the factory. Or perhaps renting it. Because since they’re double-small, advice people look at them […]
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June 1, 2008
I’ve written before of chibi. No more about that need be said. Right here, erectile Scope Dog (or someone very much like him) packs two big fat weapons on his short, stout person. He’s 5 inches high and balances quite well on his feet – one at a time – if you provoke him.
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May 27, 2008
She waits, information pills coyly fanning her hair. Demure yet voluptuous, site sensual yet pensive, she waits for the tide to rush in and bear her away. At barely five inches tall, she weighs more than a pound. And she is magnetic, both figuratively and literally. With no maker’s mark to introduce her, no indications […]
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May 22, 2008
Home turf’s on my mind today. Senator Ted Kennedy’s illness left a vacancy on the commencement program for Wesleyan University this Sunday. Barack Obama is stepping in. So, click it’s a big deal but: I grew up on the Wesleyan campus (Mom and Dad have worked there for decades). Let’s hope they hold it somewhere […]
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May 20, 2008
I love the Sears Crafstman tool guarantee. It’s simple: break it and they’ll replace it.For the rest of your life. Period. I bought these adjustable pliers a good 25-some years ago, sildenafil when I was spending hours at a time lying on my back under a filthy Volvo. Cursing. A lot …
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