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This south american fruit bat has been found to hang upside down because of his sweat.

Donald Bartheleme's reading list for grad students, about what you would expect, but interesting nonetheless.

hondurus has a surge of homophobic violence

kick ass features an eleven year old chop socking her way thru various european apartments, i for one am excited.

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via strange maps, it is a nebraskan farmers field, in the shape of nebraska.

instead of resigning now maybe the irish bishops could have done something about pedophiles when they were actually present in parishes, and no moving them about does not count as doing something.

Sondheim and Lansbury dish about musicals.

me on nellie mckay

i think that an academic discussion of sucession as it realtes to national politics would be incredibly useful at this point (cf east timor, scotland, kosovo, bosnia, indenigenous land claims in australia and canada, quebec, eteria, somilia, kurdistan, etc etc) but i remain unconvinced that the work can be done by a secretive orginazation of apologists from the american south.

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Leeches feasting on blood foam, as part of a Russian cosmetics and mecdical leech farm.

an important revulation of Jefferson's view on patents, and it's relation to historical copyright law.

Edward Schillebeeck who surrived 3 vatican investigations of his orthodoxy, has died last week at the age of 95. His refusal to actually have opinons but to carefully consider all possiblities, and to talk about the importance of discourse and a multiplicity of praxis over any cultural orthodoxies gave me permission to be a theologian. he is why i am in god school. his two tiny books on the eucharist and on celibacy are highly recommended.

top five qoutes from this lacerating interview with nyt critics Mahaoloa Dirge on women and hollywood:

I had a female studio chief a couple of years ago tell me point blank that she wasn't hiring a woman to do an action movie because women are good at certain things and not others. If you have women buying that bullshit how can we expect men to be better?

Working within the system has not worked. It has not helped women filmmakers or, even more important, you and me, women audiences, to have women in the studio system. … I think the studio system as it exists now is a no-win situation for women filmmakers.

Let's acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them. But they are important commercially... I've learned to never underestimate the academy's bad taste. Crash as best picture? What the fuck.

One, the people making Romantic Comedies have no fucking taste, two, they're morons, three they're insulting panderers who think they're making movies for the great unwashed and that's what they want. I love romantic movies. I absolutely do. But I literally don't know what's happening. I think it's depressing that Judd Apatow makes the best romantic comedies and they're about men. All power to Apatow, but he's taken and repurposed one of the few genres historically made for women. ….We had so few [genres] that were made specifically for the female audience and now the best of them are being made by Judd Apatow.

There's a reason that women go to movies like Mamma Mia. It's a terrible movie… but women are starved for representation of themselves. I go back to Spike Lee and She's Gotta Have It. I remember going to see it at the Quad in New York, surrounded by a black audience. People are starved for representations of themselves.



Dear Jonas Brother: If the sex isnt v. good, then you are doing it badly. asshole. kisses. anthony.

the italian northern leauge actually did immigration raids on christmas eve.

esteher chavez who spent her life working against the murders of women in Juraez, died last week.

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Kate Beaton does Wilde and Bosie

more protests turning violent in iran

60 images from paris, 1962

first playboy club bunny manual.

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MArtin Parr, Lemon MErianuge Pie, date unknown

sarah barnski does gorgeous street photography, with some really strong portraits.

i want every single soliary one of these sweaters

i love these circuit building kits intended to teach kids.

The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Tarintino Mix Tape cleverlly edits his films so that the visual similarties/stylistic tics become obvious.

i am totally obsessed with the elegance of joy garnett's compostions, here in the unmonumental seires.

karl rove divorices his wife.