2009
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Morning Coffee
Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty unsettling thing. Secrets of pinball economics. What was once thought…
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TRUTH SERUM:
SinkingTruth Serum books are 50% OFF until the end of this month. You could wait until later to buy some, but only if you’re filthy rich or irresponsible with money.
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Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Sit in Chairs
On November 9, 2009, four days before the release of Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated film by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, I attended a live “conversation” between the two directors at the New York Public Library.
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Paper Castles
I love that a book like this needed to exist in the first place — an 1859 guide to creating architect’s models out of paper:
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Albert Speer Would Be Proud
Not to mention Leni Riefenstahl. If Berlin has no mountains, why not build one? Architect Jakob Tigges suggests putting Berlin back on the monumentalist map by erecting a 3,000-foot mountain on the site of the recently decommissioned Tempelhof airport. Summer…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #11
THE MANCHESTER VILLAGE MOTOR INN ☆☆☆☆☆ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Manchester Village Motor Inn of Manchester, CT.
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Alexandra’s Aquatints
Alexandra Grinevsky’s 1929 illustrations for Valery Larbaud’s “Deux Artistes Lyriques.” From the collection of Richard Sica:
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Artaksiniya
The Russian artist Aksiniya, who makes a living as a fashion illustrator “for the moment,” is hardly confined by the fashion industry’s narrow view of female pulchritude. On one hand, her bony, macabre figures evoke Egon Schiele; they are fragile,…
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When Eternity’s Too Gay
Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones who penned From Here to Eternity, revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast that her father was forced to remove gay sex scenes from his original manuscript prior to publication. Jones had originally…