Pygmania

23andme just told me that I have no African Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Heavy stuff. While I try to assimilate this heavily destabilizing information, why don't you enjoy an exploration of "the genetics of African Hunter-Gatherers"? Disappearing Way of Life Ancient Lineages Keepers of Diversity Pygmy Genetics  Linguistic Legacy Curious about African Hunter-Gatherer history, art, and traditions? Explore a few of the many nuances that make this population distinct.  Armed with this information you may now go forth and honey-hunt! Deep Forest Sounds of the Aka Pygmy People  "Intangible Heritage" 🤔   Intro to Khoisan Clicking Languages Confession: I initially misread "Khoe" as "Khloé"

can't make this shit up. Yet, upon further research... "I'm stuck in a closet and its name is O'ahu ." ...maybe I don't much mind the alohawear movement, after all.  "I live in O'ahu, too." Clooney doesn't mind it, either.  "I like to  shave off my beard every 20 months or so." And now, for a small tangent. For more information or to sign up for hula classes, please visit  http://www.halaunameakanu.com Also of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie_Monarch_Festival PS: CHECK YOUR EMAIL

The  Navajo Nation  has filed a lawsuit against  Urban Outfitters  alleging breach of trademark and violations of the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act. And so the  infamous   "Navajo Hipster Panty"  and "Navajo Flask"  will have their day in court. The Navajo Nation holds numerous trademarks on the use of its name, including trademarks governing clothing and accessories; it views the Urban Outfitters' products as offensive in nature, but also as a threat to the established Navajo brand, which the Nation says stands for quality, Navajo-made jewelry, clothing, and accessories — not imported Urban Outfitters tat. For more legal analysis of the dispute when it broke in October, we spoke to fashion law and intellectual property expert professor  Susan Scafidi   here . (from Gawker)

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...

“Now when I walk down Fifth Avenue in the summertime I just want to throw up. It seems that the fatter and uglier people are, the fewer clothes they wear. The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts that go from here to Poughkeepsie.  I always say they should put people in jail for wearing clothes like that. Especially stretch jeans over [US] size 10 - they should be outlawed. Ten years ago people were starting to look like slobs in New York, now it's an epidemic.” Not that she would ever intervene on a bad case of misjudged style. “Oh, now that would be horrible. It's a free country - if you want to look like a freak, that's your problem. “Most of the young people today look dreadful. And celebrities look even worse. They don't know what to do with themselves. “At the Golden Globes and Oscars they all look alike - it seems like they're all wearing the same nightgown and this year nobody had any jewellery at all. “I mix everything up. A museum curat...

Effy (first my favorite character and I vaguely remember you thought she was awesome too?) from Skins will be starring as Catherine in a new version of Wuthering Heights which just premiered at Venice.  AMAZING?  Couldn't have planned it better myself?  Plus, Heathcliff is FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER BEING PLAYED BY A BLACK ACTOR.  They better not fuck this one up. PS, Natalie Portman was originally cast to play the part but dropped out in May.  Major thanks to Wikipedia.

"Staring Out The Window" - Fulton Lights from Ninian Doff on Vimeo .

www.ecoledeseduction.com plus this hilarity , when it tries to engage with the real world

From an article about the demise of the New York City Opera - "That sort of stability does not come cheap. New York Philharmonic musicians’ salaries start at $134,940. A Lincoln Center stagehand can make nearly $330,000. The Philadelphia Orchestra, which is seeking bankruptcy protection, is staring at $44.8 million in unfunded pension liabilities. While City Opera pays no rent on the David H. Koch Theater, it has to lay out $4.5 million a year just to keep the facility running."