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Views and reviews on arts, culture and politics.
- Author: Sean Payne
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Design for Obama
It was an experiment in linking grassroots activism with the political machine using new technology, and it is being studied by wonks around the world.Hundreds of artists and designers expressed support for the Obama candidacy by designing posters an...
Guard of honour
Staff of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre let the chimps watch the burial of Dorothy, an elderly chimpanzee, so they could come to terms with her loss. From Times Online....
Shorpy
Michael Leddy coined the wonderful expression 'dowdy world' to describe glimpses of bygone times that occasionally pop up in old movies, television shows, or anywhere at all. His definition: “modern American culture as it was before certain forms o...
Histoire des races maudites
Sitting in her little house near Tarbes, in the French Pyrenees, Marie-Pierre Manet-Beauzac is talking about her ancestry. For most people this would be agreeable, perhaps even pleasurable. For the 40-something mother-of-three, the story of her blood...
Steamer trunk office
I'm calculating what I would have to sell to get my hands on one of these.This is the Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk, made of "Vintage Cigar Leather", whatever that is.The blurb reads:Crafted by antiques dealer and furniture maker Timothy Oulton of ...
'Cold Comfort Farm'
I’ve just had a thoroughly good time reading Stella Gibbons’ ‘Cold Comfort Farm’, and marvelling that a satirical novel published in 1932 could still be so much fun, long after the sources of the joke have faded or disappeared entirely.It was...
