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A comical brass seated pixie on a mushroom bottle opener. The opener measures approx. 5" in length. There is a top hole or ring to hang him on the wall. The pixie is only cast on one side, the back is flat. The opener itself is stamped "Gt. Britain" on the back side. The pixie is also known as the Lincoln Imp. According to legend, the Devil sent Imp's to England's Lincoln Cathedral, where they turned those wo performed "devilish acts" to stone and hid the workmen's tools overnight. A great little piece to add to a barware collection!

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katrina furniture project


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uncommon sound - the left handed guitar players that changed music


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toilet review


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cartoon brew


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jigokudani-yaenkoen snow monkey livecam


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pd'o
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since when are apologies published as a pay per view item in (ny) times select:

"i'm sorry marguerite. nicholas kristof apologizes for the tone but defends the contect of his sunday column on darfur."

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gutter gone belly up.
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house at pooneil corners

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The ravaged neighborhoods of New Orleans make a grim backdrop for imagining the future of American cities. But despite its criminally slow pace, the rebuilding of this city is emerging as one of the most aggressive works of social engineering in America since the postwar boom of the 1950s. And architecture and urban planning have become critical tools in shaping that new order.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development’s plan to demolish four of the city’s biggest low-income housing developments at a time when the city still cannot shelter the majority of its residents. The plan, which is being challenged in federal court by local housing advocates, would replace more than 5,000 units of public housing with a range of privately owned mixed-income developments.

Billed as a strategy for relieving the entrenched poverty of the city’s urban slums, it is based on familiar arguments about the alienating effects of large-scale postwar inner-city housing.

But this argument seems strangely disingenuous in New Orleans. Built at the height of the New Deal, the city’s public housing projects have little in common with the dehumanizing superblocks and grim plazas that have long been an emblem of urban poverty. Modestly scaled, they include some of the best public housing built in the United States.

So it’s not surprising that many of its residents suspect a sinister agenda is at work here. Locked out of the planning process, they fear the planned demolitions are part of a broad effort to prevent displaced poor people from returning to New Orleans.

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space food sticks


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zero yen houses


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Does Downtown still exist — and does it matter? The quick answer to the first question is no. “Up Is Up” drives home the argument that it wasn’t just rising rents but AIDS that brought this period to a definitive end. The age of outrageous play was replaced by an age of sex ed and condo conversions. The media may proclaim Red Hook or Bushwick the new Bohemia, but these neighborhoods simply don’t have the seedy charge of the East Village in the 1970s and ’80s — and contemporary hipster style, intellectual and sartorial, hardly has the same anti-authoritarian bristle. As little kids in New York in the 1980s, my brother and I were scared (I blush to remember) of punks’ metallic studs and mohawks; it’s hard to imagine first graders being terrified of a hipster in a trucker cap and expensive jeans. Today, the city is so expensive that the real Bohemians are dispersed among disparate, far-flung neighborhoods.

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karen black my space / the song tarantula has edgar oliver intro

brooklyn vegan covers KB

more KB on BV
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single-contraption video / site wont link : http://www.baynhamtyers.com/contraption_video.htm

personal blimp


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the hound archive


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green surfboards

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i noticed this product on the road the other day. i believe they were either flesh or champagne. not sure.


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Ms. Horton, the farthest thing from an art-world aesthete, had never heard of Pollock when she purchased a canvas she describes as so ugly that she tried to give it away to a friend (“We were going to throw darts at it,” she recalls), but it wouldn’t fit through the door of her friend’s trailer. At a garage sale a local art teacher spotted the painting and suggested it might be a Pollock. Her curiosity whetted, Ms. Horton began calling Los Angeles art dealers. Her son, Bill Page, joined the search, which became a decade-long quest for validation of her purchase.

As this smart, hard-bitten woman with an eighth-grade education pursues her quest, the documentary portrays the debate between connoisseurship and science as a culture war. Among the connoisseurs who insist that a refined eye is the ultimate judge of authenticity is Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, exuding contempt and superciliousness. He is the most outspoken in his rejection. Shown the painting, he dismisses it as “pretty, superficial and frivolous.”

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chuck06's container house design


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nyt again picking up on rat rod design influence.

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lumberjack


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gt6b
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On a dune not far away, two freshly built, very large houses interrupt this near-primeval landscape in the midst of the Cape Cod National Seashore, a federally protected area established in 1961 to limit exactly that kind of development.

Nearby, a Modernist beach house built around the time of the park’s founding is almost hidden in the dunes. Small and brown, it sits lightly over the land, on stilts. But while new houses, some still covered in Tyvek insulation, sprout on privately owned land in the midst of the national seashore, this one, like dozens of others from the same era, has been taken over by the National Park Service, which administers the seashore, and it is now rapidly decaying.

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GT1



"ghostly trio - no.1" (study for ghost painting)
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The dismantling of CBGB is underway, with every major item getting tagged so that when owner Hilly Kristal rebuilds the place in Las Vegas or wherever, the builders will know which scum-coated piece goes where. There's something about people traveling from all over to line up and pee in "authentic" CBGB urinals that doesn't seem right, isn't there? Shed a tear and head on over to MTV News, which has a great photo essay of the carnage.

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upper bucks mid c modern 4.85 acres for 499.0 k



via adman (edited to correct price)
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"enough already!" --mars rover


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zombie shelter


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if you were thinking of living in the candlewood lake / squantz pond area of ct.

1.45 acres with waterfrontage from 06812

06811

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map satellite wikipedia / bird watching?
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32.1
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...a live set from the Kropotkins was just what the doc ordered to usher in the weekend's close. Split between Memphis and New York, this bunch gets together maybe once every five years to record and play shows, so landing them at the fair was an honor indeed. Led by Dave Soldier (composer/neuroscientist and presenter of some great films about his Thai Elephant Orchestra recording project at the fair on Saturday), the Kropotkins blur the line between downtown NYC avant and the Fred McDowell/Otha Turner shadow that looms large over Memphis/North Mississippi by shaking things down with the dulcet tones of singer Lorette Velvette, a mighty figure among unabashed fanboys and girls here at WFMU for sure. As dealers packed up their crates Sunday evening, a modest crowd gathered and even cut a rug right on the Metropolitan Pavillion floor, though no one to the best of my memory hollered goat. Usual members Moe Tucker and Charlie Burnham didn't make it up, the line-up still rocked, with ex-Swans/Transmission/Rhys Chatham drummer and (current leader of his new band February) Jonathan Kane stirring up the snare, downtown music/film fixture Eszter Balint hopping in last minute on violin, Lorette on electric guitar/vox, her husband Al X. Green on keys, Dog on guitar, Ron Franklin on bass drum, and Dave on violin and banjo. Some MP3s here from the band's two great studio records...

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outside pipeline


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stonehenge decoded

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i keep meaning to post this upside down window installation in the gehry iac building on the west side.
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edie


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kind of a drag


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After 24 years at the same Hudson River pier, the legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was inched out of its berth by powerful tugboats on Monday - but it never got under sail because it got stuck in the mud as the tide went down.

The mission was scrubbed for the day at around 10:30 a.m., according to Dan Bender, a Coast Guard spokesman.

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In the fall of 1971, two years after th Stonewall Rebellion, sixteen months after Ken State, and a couple of weeks after the priso riots at Attica, a few hundred bicyclists rod down Fifth Avenue and on to City Hall demonstrating for the institution of dedicate bike lanes and bike racks. They calle themselves Bike for a Better City. One ride held a sign that read, “The internal combustio engine is antiquated, obscene, and responsibl for more deaths thru pollution and mayhe than even that great curse war.” A few taxi-drivers razzed the protesters, and at one poin an infiltrator, concerned that there were greate causes in need of pursuing, joined the cyclists ranks, shouting, “People are being murdere and you protest bicycle lanes!
Since 2000, according to a certain moral calculus, more than a hundred and twenty New York City bicyclists have been murdered—struck dead by automobiles—and another twenty thousand have been injured, by enemy car doors and steel-fortified taxicab fenders. Three were killed in the course of three weeks in June of this year, including one, Dr. Carl Nacht, who was felled by a police tow truck while riding with his wife along the Hudson River Greenway—an officially sanctioned bike path. Since 2004, about six hundred cyclists have been arrested while participating in monthly political-protest rides known as Critical Mass, most notably during the Republican National Convention, when scores were ensnared in nets, and later imprisoned, and their bikes were confiscated as “evidence.”

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chesspiece (excerpt)


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the heartbreakers


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over and over


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tv eye (draw iggy)


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big bamboo


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off grid internal combustion blenders


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pardon me if i dont


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youtube - a visit to canada:

bj snowden

bob and doug

glen gould

trailer park boys


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This tapestry depicts a woodpecker against an ornate backdrop and was designed by Morris & Co in 1877. With most of the company's output being a collaborative effort involving several artists, the above tapestry is unusual in that it was one of the very few designed by William Morris in its entirety. It shows a woodpecker sitting in the branch of a fruit tree and features Morris's distinctive ornate background of leaves, reminiscent of Mille Fleurs, and his legendary attention to detail.

The idea for the piece was inspired by the legend of Picus, an ancient Italian king turned into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe because of her jealousy of the king's love for his wife, as recounted by Ovid in Metamorphoses. This version of the tapestry is inscribed with the following verse:

I once a King and chief • Now am the tree-bark’s thief • Ever ‘twixt trunk and leaf • Chasing the prey

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paint bespeckled four by eight foot vertical piece of fiberboard sold for 140 million dollars


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army surplus


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“ ‘Why are your children at home, and you’re in Texas?’ ” she asked. “Well, I’m trying to get home. It’s just crazy. But my kids know my situation. When school started, I had to work a couple of more weeks, because I had that light bill.

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The largest skateboard ramp in the world can be found on a 12-acre farm north of San Diego among the green foothills of the San Marcos Mountains.

Pilots routinely adjust their flight paths for a closer look, which is as good a way as any to sum up the scale of the Mega Ramp. The wooden structure is longer than a football field, as tall as an eight-story building, with a creek bed running through a 70-foot breach.

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never mind the bollards


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happy hell-o-ween (munsters 1st season)

...unless your like me, more of an adams guy


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