I bought my house about 9 months ago and I’ve barely decorated at all because everywhere I look I just see cheap, crappy, mass-produced sh*te. It kills me! And yes, even picture frames! I’ve been thinking I might go to the tip-shop (not sure what you guys call it over there...
for I still think of it as a Taj Mahal among restaurants. I have dined in some of the finest eating places in the world, but in my memory none ever compared with Father’scoup de maître. It must have been quite a place at that, for today my mother’s face still lights up ...
The short, short version is that they found a partial timber wolf femur from the La Brea tar pits that was sheared off near the proximal end and healed. The healing demonstrates that the animal survived whatever violent event tore off the rest of the hindlimb. There’s no sign of a pseud...
Often new authors think that professional illustrators will work for little or no compensation to have the honor of being “published”. This is false. Like many other professions, you get what you pay for and quality doesn’t come cheap. Your proposed incentive will only work on naive, inex...
City staff are supposed to be the professional experts. As such, they must frame alternatives for the Council and the public using their professional expertise to distinguish options based on how each option will fulfill policy goals and meet safety or performance criteria. For this critically impor...
most of the Halloween stuff at my local Michaels is already on 40% discount, getting sold off cheap to make room for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The realistic skulls-on-stands originally sold for $25, at which price I might balk, but for $15 they seem like a steal. The little labeled...
Kasutori Jidai / The Period of Cheap Liquor. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1980. First Edition. Quarto. Photographs taken after the war documenting the downtrodden and the drunk, the hooker and the showgirl, the film star and the baseball player. Bizarre book. Edges of the photo- illustrated black...
Click the picture for a bigger version A list of other entries to this theme; if you do not want to be on this list let me know and I remove the link The word comes from German, meaning a desire to wander. Wandering can start close to the house, and may not immediately involve cou...
) that, due to the “homosexual frame of reference” and the “possible influence upon youngsters,”United Artistswas persuaded to release it as an X (love the use of the word “youngsters” btw). Later changes to the rating code meant that the age limit for R movies was raised to 17...
I would also say that anyone who grew up in the second half of the 90s and the whole 00s decade are definitely generation y because during this time frame, a huge cultural and society change took place that definitely affected generation y while we were in our youth. Also, I will say ...