Author: Chibi
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Mar 08, 2011 Starsky & Hutch & Gordon Lightfoot
I just learned how to put a start time in YouTube embed codes so I don't feel so bad about posting this amazing story montage about friendship featuring Starsky & Hutch and Gordon Lightfoot. Just give it 20 seconds from hitting play and pay attention to the lyrics. The line "...
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Mar 07, 2011 License to talk about IL
Talk at MagCulture.com about the NYT Magazine's redesign led to the flickr page of Francesco Franchi, art director of IL, the aesthetic appeal of which does a lot to counteract the magazine's name ("Intelligence in Lifestyle") and identity as a men's insert in a financial newspaper. I can't read Italian so this is far from...
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Mar 03, 2011 The most haunting photo of a dead squirrel at a fun fair you’ve ever seen
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Mar 02, 2011 Dandelion will make you
Just a few things: 1. The band's name is Bump of Chicken, and the song is called "Dandelion." 2. The lion is Pon de Lion, a mascot for Mr. Donut. 3. Pon de Lion is part-doughnut and kind of a freak. Someone recently posted an English translation of the 2007 fan-made Flash- animated video for "Dandelion" about a sad, ostracized...
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Mar 01, 2011 H Is for… Hell Yeah?
The "Geometry of Circles" (1979) with music by Philip Glass made me wonder about the children had Peter Greenaway's "H Is for House" (1973) been shown on Sesame Street, too. H is for half-past six, half-past seven, half-past eight, half-past nine, half-past ten, half-past eleven, half-past twelve...
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Feb 27, 2011 The superheroes of the Tokyo Marathon
The Japan Times has posted on Facebook photos of some of the most colorful characters to run in this weekend's Tokyo Marathon, including: shinkansenman onigiriman and, my favorite, salaryman....
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Feb 25, 2011 The New Yorker’s fact checkers vs. religion and poetry
Vs. Religion Lawrence Wright, who wrote the epic New Yorker story about Paul Haggis's defection from the Church of Scientology (bullet points here), talks to Fresh Air about the fact-checking process for his article, which required five fact checkers and 971 queries to the organization. Listen here. Vs. Poetry Michael H. Miller at the New York Observer offers...