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is off Samuel Smithsward (20/11)
is liking the new RRR website: http://rrr.org.au/ (20/11)
Also recently got: illustrator Boris Artzybasheff's "As I See", which is fantastic in an Escher-meets-Bosch-meets-Dali sort of way (20/11)
just got in the mail: Momus, "Joemus" and Benoit Pioulard, "temper". (20/11)
is reading the book of the Cold War Modern exhibition; currently on the part about Le Corbusier and Western vs. Eastern urban planning. (20/11)
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2007/11/19
Pink Tentacle, an English-language Japanese blog, has a list of the top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007 : 30. Dried-fish woman [himono onna - 干物女]: Himono onna (”dried-fish woman”) is an expression used in the2006/11/19
A former KGB colonel and critic of the Russian government resident in Britain appears to have been poisoned with thallium , after investigating the recent murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (another critic of the2003/11/19
A preschool teacher is taking on bad music, one kid at a time . "Rupert", of New York state, has been playing his charges everything from Belle & Sebastian to P-Funk, from outsider music to "