Have you ever seen an image so frank and beautiful that it moves you to tears? I have. It's a self-portrait of Diane Arbus, one of my major artistic influences, that was taken when she was 21 and pregnant with her daughter, Doon. Patricia Bosworth, who authored the most well-known book on Arbus, wrote a piece a couple years ago for Vanity Fair in which she spoke of hanging the image above ...
BEIJING, China ¨C Instead of lowering its export subsidy rate for bicycles which was still expected at the beginning of 2008, the Chinese government is raising it. In order to fight the global economic recession and to stimulate export the subsidy rate will rise from the current 9% to between 11 and 14%. China dropped the export subsidy rate for bicycles in 2007 with 4% to 9%. Because of the ...
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town. I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes and they all fall down. And as I lay me down tonight, I close my eyes. What a beautiful sight... I found myself in the riches of your eyes, your lips, your hair and you were everywhere. I woke up in the ditches, I hit the ...
There's been speculation on anti-dominionist forums on LJ that a recent church shooting (at a Unitarian church) may have been the work of a dominionist--unfortunately, this is not unlikely, as UU churches have been explicitly targeted for protests by dominionist groups and the incident occured in Knoxville, located in a part of Tennessee that is a wee bit of a dominionist hotbed. In fact, ...
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