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In the bullseye here in the Buckeye State
The phone won’t stop ringing. Earlier in the cycle the calls were all from familiar voices, the candidates themselves or their smooth-talking celebrity surrogates. Here in the final push days, the types of calls are changing, getting more aggressive. They’re … Continue reading
Wanna see something really scary?
On any other day, if you’re asked that question, let the lessons of the cinema be your guide, and say ‘no thanks.’ Ah, but today is Halloween, or Samhain for ye traditionalists. It is as they say the time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Halloween, horror, Samhain, scary, Twilight Zone The Movie, video, Youtube
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I culture you (whiskey 101)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the most cynical disposition toward your fellow man. Whiskey (and whisky*) The spirit. The fortified repast that’s better than … Continue reading
I culture you (art edition)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the most cynical disposition toward your fellow man. Art: Art is subjective. Emphatic period. Feel free to enjoy the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art blog, art definition, buy art, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, deviant art, I culture you, sub culture, Tagged cultural, wall decor, what is culture?
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I culture you (part 1)
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That one’s a metaphor for human culture only if you’ve got the cynical-ist disposition toward your fellow man. I ain’t comin atcha like that. When it comes to culture … Continue reading
Developing story – HUGE art heist in Amsterdam
At least seven major art works have been stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in the Netherlands, in an early morning heist on Tuesday. The works include paintings by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, and Gauguin. The museum, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, art theft, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Gauguin, Kunsthal Museum, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, sub culture, Tagged cultural, what is culture?
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Chinese literature in the spotlight
With this week’s announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the world’s cultural attention has turned to Chinese literature. China has one of the world’s most ancient traditions of written art, yet has been mostly ignored by … Continue reading
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Tagged China, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultural revolution, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Gao Xingjian, Guan Moye, literature, Mo Yan, Nobel Prize, Pearl Buck, Red Sorghum, sub culture, Tagged cultural, The Republic of Wine, what is culture?
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Richard Dadd: Art and insanity
He was an artist recognized in his lifetime for uncommon talent, astonishing attention to detail, and a fascination with mythological subjects, which was aesthetically felicitous and appropriate for his Victorian upbringing. Richard Dadd was also tragically insane, a confessed patricide, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Broadmoor, Broadmoor Revealed - Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum, cultural differences, cultural issues, cultured, deconstruct, deconstructed, deconstructing, deconstructive, deconstructs, definition of culture, Mark Stevens, Richard Dadd, sub culture, Tagged cultural, Victorian, what is culture?
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Do NOT be the last person on Earth to see this video
This site fancies itself an altar unto culture. This site would be remiss, then, if it didn’t immediately and at once turn its entire attention toward the Korean Peninsula, and pay due homage to Park Jae-sang, better known as Psy, … Continue reading
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Horse culture
Cultures clash; they are clashing, as you can plainly see in the news. As long as they’ve bumped up against one another, they’ve clashed. The differences—the causes of the clashes—are subject to endless debate, and rightfully so. Just as culture … Continue reading
Labor 2012
Last year on this day we took a look back at the history of the labor movement in the United States. This year we’ll take a look around. This article by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis celebrates the history of … Continue reading
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Tagged afl-cio, department of labor, hilda solis, IWW, labor, Labor Day, unions, workers, Working America
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What the melting glacier teaches
Circumstances have brought us to an odd place, where we can simultaneously consider the horrors of an old war, one that’s a hundred years gone and that was supposed to end all wars, and also our grim present, in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ago de Nardis, climate change, global warming, Italy, World War I
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Football fame, the wrong way
Andre Parker, linebacker for the Kent State Golden Flashes, is internet-famous today. Pretty impressive after playing just his first game of this college football season. But he’s probably not enjoying that fame, and more’s the pity because it’s probably going … Continue reading
