The essence of the discipline is the comprehension of the underlying reasons for a thing's absurdity

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I have just discovered the worst cough drops in the world. They taste exactly like bath salts. Now I need new cough drops.

Google Blog Search is the devil's playground.

Pace Ernest Thesiger, I think this is my new favorite image: Louis Daguerre's "Boulevard du Temple" (1838 / 1839). It looks so much less like the early photograph it is than some silver-etched Boschian take on Paris, with ghosts and deserted streets and the buildings blurring off into the sky . . .





palecast, this is Paradys.

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all that shadow and texture, I need to feel it through the nerves when my hand moves.

I didn't know you drew. That's wonderful. I'd love to see what this picture looks like through your hands.

And I love your subject line.

I don't love Foucault's Pendulum, but I love the School of Comparative Irrelevance.