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While following links from dearraed I ended up at ziboy. Wen Ling, in Beijing, posts a beautiful photoblog, worth browsing for a long time.

This is incredibly fun, and not a good thing for me to discover on a friday morning when I have work to do. Type in a message, and it will be sung back to you via samples. Of course I saw it at TMN first.

This weekend at the LAtch – “Where the Art Starts and Stops”

Curated by Dawn Kasper

and most importantly,

featuring the musical gyrations of Luxxury

you miss it, and we are tying to you Paris Hilton and throwing you in the hog slop to wrestle. Unless you would like that of course. If that is the case, then no one can save you.

Its on Saturday, December 6 – doors open 8pm. Cost ya 3 bucks with a free drinky.

This weekend at the LAtch – “Where the Art Starts and Stops”

Curated by Dawn Kasper

and most importantly,

featuring the musical gyrations of Luxxury

you miss it, and we are tying to you Paris Hilton and throwing you in the hog slop to wrestle. Unless you would like that of course. If that is the case, then no one can save you.

Its on Saturday, December 6 – doors open 8pm. Cost ya 3 bucks with a free drinky.

Here it comes, the Governator starts screwing California. First victims: art therapy programs, food stamp users, doctors who treat Medi-Cal patients, public university recuitment (which could then impact enrollement, and tuition monies). Its gonna be a long term.Gov.’s Cuts to Hit Poor, Universities

More Rome: Maps of the Roman Empire

I have been reading Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” for ages now (its dense, and long and I mostly only read on lunch break) and have been trying to visualize the movements of the Roman Empire over its course – here are some resources if you are also a strange history geek like I am becoming. Rome: Map of the Empire

More to come as I search for more images and resources…

Got a new image set up in the Projects section – some stills from the production of the independent film Fixed.. we provided a couple of installations that in the film are made by the character Deanna. Take a peek..

Lawsuit claims manual cited bikini ski contest talk

(an actual headline from CNN.com, well, a sub-header. still, what the hell?)

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Berkeley Breathed is coming back! He is bringing back Opus the penguin with a strip called Opus, to run as a half-page Sunday comic -and it better be in the LA Times or I am cancelling my subscription. Story at Salon.++++

Lets hope Bill D Cat comes with ’em, I used to have that Billy and the Boingers record ya know.