June 2009
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Abortion Doctor, George Tiller, murdered at... →
George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into church services. (via huffnews)
It doesn’t get any more American than this.
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Building Urban Motion by abstract groove, on Kateopolis (via Vimeo)
Video installation designed on the façade of the Arcobaleno cinema and Hotel St. George, in Viale Tunisia, Milan.
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Coast Modern trailer on Kateopolis (via Vimeo)
Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome’s documentary takes you through three generations of modernist movements on the West Coast. From Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra’s 1920s Hollywood, through to the second wave of post WWII America, to today’s current modernist renaissance.
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LeBron’s final numbers: 37 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists — not just a Triple...
– LeBron James’ Game 5 performance one for ages - Joe Posnanski - SI.com (via shawnb)
And it’ll take the exact same effort to pull the next one off.
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Trace and aura. The trace is appearance of a nearness, however far removed the...
– Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, [M16a,4] in the section called The Flaneur, quoted by Corner Lot. (via mills)
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That’s one way to do it….(via Vimeo)
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Ten Most Shocking Personal Moments of the Supreme... →
“Everyone is speculating about the ways Sotomayor’s personal background will compromise her judicial integrity. I mean, it’s pretty hard to hold a gavel while eating arroz con pollo, let alone while having a vagina.” - Katie Halper
Judge Breyer opens up about exploring his sexuality: “In my experience when I was 8 or 10 or 12 years old, you know, we did take our...
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pickled grapes with cinnamon and black pepper
from A Homemade Life by one of my favorite gal chefs, Molly Wizenberg (more at Bon Appétit)
1 pound seedless red/black grapes
1 cup white wine vinegar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon brown mustard seeds
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1 (2 1/2-inch) cinnamon stick
1/4 teaspoon salt
rinse, dry, and pull the grapes from their stems. trim away the belly button at the stem, exposing...
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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel →
“We may think ourselves a safe country, but we can hardly be the United States of 1776, of 1865, and of 1945 so long as we retain a power imported by Dick Cheney and his lawyers from the 17th century into the 21st; the power of government to imprison and keep in jail a person against whom nothing has been proved and nothing charged. It is a bondage as complete as slavery; and like slavery,...
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