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HEMA is a Dutch department store, with shops in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

This is their Rube Goldbergesque website. (They have a real website there somewhere, but this one is better.)

item: after winning Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Jason Kohn's Manda Bala showed at the "Sundance at BAM" festival this May, and has been picked up by City Lights Pictures for release this summer! The bit I saw looked amazing, so I say: see it if you can ( Read more... )

Jun-dai has a blog from Japan! But I don't have Japanese language support for my computer right now, so as far as I know his blog is titled "??????" -- which, all things considered, is a pretty good name for any blog, but especially Jun-dai's blog from Japan.

Some day I look forward to writing a short story, or a small personal essay, to explain what I meant when I wrote in my last post about "my year of discontent", and maybe also what I meant in the penultimate post about "the inverted world"; and maybe some day I'll even go back and explain that time in early February when I tied the drop in the ( Read more... )

-Belle & Sebastian, "If You're Feeling Sinister"

Just to let you know, today's Cat & Girl is particularly genius -- & don't forget to read the note under the cartoon on Cat's favorite paintings ( Read more... )

-Thomson, "Hymn on Solitude"

For the next month I will either not be posting, or will be posting short comments about the books I've been reading; so, for now, one last hurrah. A miscellaneous, link-heavy hurrah.

1) The Assassin's Cloak is the site for a book-collection of diary entries; the site puts up one a day, some better than others. Dead ( Read more... )

“Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like - like that smoke. ... And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You’ll see ( Read more... )

Don't worry -- this isn't another long post, it's another short one; I'm just writing to ask:

What are your favorite lyrics? What are your favorite music videos?

I'm not sure I would call it a favorite video, but here's one worth watching, by the band OK Go.

a) someone recut The Ten Commandments to make a trailer for a teen romantic comedy, calling it "Ten Things I Hate About Commandments"aSub1) I love parody trailers; tell me what other parody trailers you've seen ( Read more... )