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(all of a sudden) it is a bad day

Monday, July 7, 2008

it is exactly the sort of day when you have every right to be miserable and/or worried. what with the petrol prices and the drought and the interest rates and the cost of housing and drug queen roberta williams turns cover girl.
my appointment with the dental hygienist in outer western mongolia is actually with the [...]

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this is catherine whiting

Thursday, April 10, 2008

a story is doing the rounds of the internets about an 80 year old man in new york who has been calling his late wife’s answering service every day since she died in 2005 just to hear her voice. unfortunately the phone company deleted the message and the old man was heartbroken. tough shit said [...]

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portraits

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

cue : a random post about two sets of photographs of people : one – the life’s work of the german photographer august sander (1876-1964) currently the subject of a major exhibition at the art gallery of new south wales which contains a sizeable portion of the 1200 of his photographs owned by the j.paul [...]

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Through the Looking Glass

Friday, September 7, 2007

as a kind of ex-cyberpunk i should be a science fiction fan, but i am just not … something about being unwilling to suspend my disbelief. however william gibson explains why science fiction is about the present, and his observations on the strange kind of reality we live in this recent interview in the washington [...]

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instantbio

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

instant life writing
no special skills required!

interesting life optional!
why bore your friends in real time?

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