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Friday, June 30, 2006 |
 Always have Kleenex and a wire brush ready afterwards.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
Remains of ruined castles, deserted abbeys, old manor houses — I think you're getting the drift. An amazing website with over 1140 images.
7:38:29 PM Literature | |
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
 I might be getting upholstered. Some green leather would be nice.
7:24:26 PM Basil Says | |
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Sunday, June 25, 2006 |
 The view through a telescope is usually a dark one.
7:47:51 PM Basil Says | |
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I'm told I have autism, some say I have Asperger's syndrome (it's very similar). Maybe it is the reason I have been drawing since the age of 5 and I have always been fascinated by big cities and aeroplanes. In 1984, I started to be interested by the conception of an imaginary city called Urville... More about Urville in the Guardian. 
3:39:39 PM This & That | |
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Strassenmusikfestival (yep, this is one word in German) Dortmund, probably 1975. I just got the wonderful Olympus OM-2 as a birthday present and couldn't resist taking photographic exposures. By the way: Majo, is that you? The guy in the first pic with the guitar? Ha!    
1:07:38 AM This & That | |
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Saturday, June 24, 2006 |
Alexander Wolf, Zur Hölle mit den Paukern, Verlag Bärmeier und Nikel, 1963.Illustrations by Kurt Halbritter. He was, and still is, one of Germany's finest cartoonists. And many thanks to my uncle Clemens for all those books!    
6:44:36 PM Literature | |
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At the start of 2003, a friend told Klaus Littmann about the closed department store in the village of Mugron in south-western France. An initial visit confirmed the incredible: a department store whose doors had last admitted patrons nearly 30 years ago has been left in its original condition and regularly maintained and cleaned by its owners. Littmann immediately appreciated the extraordinary quality of this time capsule of contemporary history, and honoured the unintentional achievement of the store's two owners by reanimating this frozen slice of the past in the present day and in a different context. "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums" — Andy Warhol 
8:41:43 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Friday, June 23, 2006 |
Oral sex between skeletons is a rather dry affair.
7:16:03 PM Basil Says | |
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 WorkWorkWork. Blogging will resume tonight or tomorrow.
6:40:38 AM This & That | |
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
This is what Feminism looked like in 1968. The placement of the logotype is a mystery though. Looks like a really bad Helmut Krone Volkswagen rip-off to me.
5:58:52 PM Old Ads | |
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
 Always juggle with raindrops when it's raining. It'll bring you luck.
8:38:13 PM Basil Says | |
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The SFX are better and even the acting isn't worse than in the original series. Download the New Voyages.
6:34:33 AM Cult | |
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Monday, June 19, 2006 |
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Sunday, June 18, 2006 |
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Saturday, June 17, 2006 |
I clearly remember my mother forcing me to sit in front of such a thing when I was 4 or 5 years old. I had to wear special dark sunglasses, which apparently came together with the whole kit.
11:01:48 AM Old Ads | |
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Friday, June 16, 2006 |
When a man gets close to a woman, or a woman gets close to a man. A female might get close to a male, a male close to a female. Whatever you do in cases like these, just behave. People always appreciate it when you behave.
10:41:39 PM Basil Says | |
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
 When you feel an uncontrollable urge, simply resist.
8:15:34 PM Basil Says | |
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Len Deighton, London Dossier. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. First published 1967.  
7:37:51 PM Literature | |
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
'Have we met before?' is not a good pulling line. Especially when you're a skeleton.
10:25:44 PM Basil Says | |
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I think I had exactly the same Lederhose when I was little. What a crappy ad that is. 
8:24:10 PM Old Ads | |
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Welcome to "Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's 19th-Century Literary Annual." I have reproduced, re-represented, linked, amassed and essentially "archived" elements from the 1823-1830 volumes of the earliest British-published literary annual, Forget Me Not, published by Rudolf Ackermann 1823-1847. 
6:34:10 AM Literature | |
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Monday, June 12, 2006 |
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An online repository of the unique and fascinating stringed instruments of Chris J. Knutzen, maker of the Knutzen Harp guitar, a very strange looking instrument. 
8:32:02 PM This & That | |
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Great: everything you ever wanted to know about the Doctor. Sometimes even Flash can be really good.
7:50:29 PM Cult | |
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6:44:06 AM MP3 | |
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Sunday, June 11, 2006 |
 When it's too hot to blog, don't blog.
6:59:52 AM Basil Says | |
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 |
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Friday, June 9, 2006 |
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Thursday, June 8, 2006 |
My bones are sticky tonight.
9:28:53 PM Basil Says | |
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... among the best known brands of materials created and/or marketed by DuPont
there are Butacite®, Corian®, Cordura®, Cromalin®, Delrin®, Kevlar®, Hytrel®, Lycra®, Nylon, Nomex®, SentryGlas® Plus, Sontara®, Surlyn®, Teflon®, Tyvek®, Zodiaq® and Zytel®. Much more design, art, and exhibitions at designboom history. 
6:20:53 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006 |
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Monday, June 5, 2006 |
 UFOs can fly much faster than ordinary aeroplanes.
10:32:00 PM Basil Says | |
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Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book ... 
10:28:55 PM Art & Advertising, Literature | |
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Sunday, June 4, 2006 |
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The Home Movie Depot archive is a public collection of streaming video from Home Movie Depot customers. All of these home movies have been volunatrily submitted to the Home Movie Depot Archive by the original owner. 
1:00:36 PM This & That | |
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Saturday, June 3, 2006 |
I wonder if that's worth anything. Can I flog it on eBay and get rich?
2:35:09 PM This & That | |
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Loriot & Evelyn Hamann, Stadtbücherei Dortmund, early eighties. 
12:14:08 PM Cult | |
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A facsimile of the first edition. No, I didn't check whether it's complete. And the download links are not working either.
7:31:34 AM Literature | |
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Thursday, June 1, 2006 |
The stupid cat returned my missing bone today at 16:00 hours. Then she disappeared with a rib of mine. I hate that cat.
9:10:41 PM Basil Says | |
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