Woman
by Young-Kyun Kim, sculptor [front] [side]
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How to Be a New Yorker
I love this article and want to try to find a copy of this book http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-11-23/news/how-to-be-a-new-yorker/
MARCO CANORA PARTE DEUX
http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/11/marco_canora_is_worth_the_shle.html Let's go! Lets go! Let's go!
SKILLFUL PIGMIES ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
The below is taken from tomorrow's inquisition reading, which I'll have you know is an entire book, titled The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. * * * "'The peoples of these lands have different laws, because some worship the sun, some fire, some the trees, some serpents, and others the first thing they encounter in the morning. Still others worship images and idols. . . ' Mandeville related these facts at the beginning of the second part of his travels in speaking of Chana, a small island off the Indian coast. . . . Menocchio's mental universe now consisted of Inda and Cathay and islands inhabited by cannibals, Pigmies and men with the heads of dogs. It was on the subject of Pigmies that Mandeville wrote a page destined to enjoy an extraordinary success: 'they are people short in stature, who are about three spans long: and they are beautiful and graceful, both men and women, because of their smallness. They marry whe...
The Center for Missed Connections
I decided to repost this from the Voice ... Under the semi-serious auspices of the Center for Missed Connections , 24-year-old Ingrid Burrington, who grew up in California, has been studying Craigslist's outlet for the lonely, the hopeful, the romantic, the horny, and the insane for more than two years now. It all started with what she calls a whimsical question: "What's the loneliest place in any given city, and how can I measure it?" From there she turned to chronicling Missed Connections, which led to a map for an art show in 2009 at Pratt , a book project , and, currently, a residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council . From her website: The Center for Missed Connections (CMC) began as a project simply to identify where the most missed connections happen in a given city. New York City is home to the pilot program, chosen for its high traffic and for the propensity of posters to include specific cross-streets or location information. Since th...
my whole world on its head
The first [commandment] forbids the worship of any other gods. This is not yet monotheism: the existence of other gods is not denied.... Around the time of the Babylonian exile we shall find stronger assertions that YKVK is the only true God, in the prophet we call Second Isaiah, but strict monotheism is developed only in the Hellenistic period, under the influence of Greek philosophy.
Dots
Love love love the blue, and the variable size of the dots - especially the large ones on the hem. Also, the heels are pretty sicknasty - although I don't know how I feel about the straps. Thoughts?
Lavender Linguistics
Polari Swardspeak Bugpymychasing Moffietaal of the Cape Coloured Community EXAMPLE OF MOFFIETAAL: Varda that Beulah! Vast mitzi. She's a chicken and probably Priscilla and I don't need Jennifer Justice in my life right now. Translation: Look at that beauty! Very me. He's young and probably a policeman and I don't need trouble with the law in my life at the moment. EXAMPLE OF BUGCHASING: