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Art and Plastic Surgery?
Well, I suppose if you can smack around a lump of clay or hack away at a chunk of stone, you can do the same thing to someone’s face.
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Compact Cactus Disk
Walking down the Calzada de la Luz this week we came across this arresting apparition – wondering whether it was a miraculous natural cactus evolution, or whether someone had spectacularly lodged the CD there, frisby-like, from twenty feet away, which … Continue reading
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Bed Among the Lentils
In 1987 Alan Bennett wrote a short monologue entitled Bed Among the Lentils, wonderfully rendered by Maggie Smith (click here for the YouTube version) as part of the Talking Heads series for the BBC (also available as a great DVD set). I was always fascinated … Continue reading
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Albert Kahn’s Incredible Archives of the Planet
It is startling to see the world of one hundred years ago in color, and doing so seems to bring us much closer to the subjects of Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planéte. From 1908 until the 1920’s, Kahn sent … Continue reading
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On the Rocks, Part Two
One of the unusual surprises in Central Park are the turtles, locally known as sliders, which climb onto the sun-warmed rocks around the Park’s several lakes. There name refers to the fact that when you approach, they silently slide backward … Continue reading
On The Rocks
In the interest of the Free Press, and the irresistible desire to humiliate, Arrest is published for those who wish to ascertain there are still those who are in deeper doo-doo than they are – or just to make sure … Continue reading
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Upper West Side Tacos
As luck will have it, we are not deprived of great Mexican food when we are in the big manzana. The Super Tacos truck parks on 96th street at Broadway each evening, as it has done for the last 15 … Continue reading
Red, White, and Bluebird
Typical of America, the bluebirds here are not satisfied with just being blue but have to do the whole patriotic thing, bluebirds in Britain being a little less technicolor. Our bluebird house upstate New York usually attracts a pair each year and … Continue reading
Here Fido
There are some scary things that can come at you in the wild, but this is about as nasty as they get. The Boston Dynamics LSSM (Legged Squad Support System), or load toter, will come trotting across the battlefield with … Continue reading
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Some Kind of Sentient Life Form?
George Lucas or Jim Henson would love/have loved one of these. It was in Central Park and is conceivably alive. The small black thing sticking out at top left is possibly a nose, although it could be just a starter … Continue reading