Thursday, January 21, 2016

A knot in my stomach: the story of Slimband

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Tonight while watching some inane thing on TV, I saw a chirpy, cheerful, upbeat ad for a wonderful new weight loss program that p...

I just think this looks really cool.

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SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR FAIRY TALES HAVE BEEN RETOLD IN MANY WAYS, ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES, OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS +5 L...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Are you nuts? You'll never fit into THAT.

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Alex Kingston   checked in to  Victoria's Secret . 2 hrs  ·  Burlington, WA, United States  ·  ...

My Little Marble Hall

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The Old Turf Fire Oh, the old turf fire and the hearth swept clean, There is no-one half so happy as myself and Paddy Keane; With ...

Pave Paradise: the destruction of Eden

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Yesterday I was horrified to find they have ripped up our beloved duck part, our name for the little lake in Coquitlam which we used to...

What's the point, anyway?

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What's the point, anyway? But we can  still make some gifs. Surrealism in cracker advertising. The mo...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Busy Day Jello Commercial (1956)

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Rain fell on Skagit Valley

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  Rain fell on Skagit Valley. It fell in sweeps and it fell in drones. It fell in unending cascades of cheap Zen jewelry. It fell on...

Mark Twain with chickens

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Sunday, January 17, 2016

If you feel like crap. . . or even if you don't

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Watch this. If you don't go "awwwwwww. . . "  at least seven times, you have a heart of stone. This is one of the very few...

Enough is enough is enough

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The novelist and children’s writer explains why he resigned as a patron from the Oxford literary festival ‘If you are professional...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

All things are made better with cats (especially art)

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The paintings 'made better with cats' By Genevieve Hassan  Entertainment reporter, BBC News Venus of Urbino happil...