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Kolya Dreams of Tapestry

A Kolya-n tapestry? For those who lurked about the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in the early 2000s, Kolya, or Nicholas as many of us knew him, was a familiar face. He was a sans-papiers from...

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George Whitman, In Memoriam

Pia Copper-Ind writes: The world sees few men like George Whitman. In the harsh capitalist world of today, George’s morals and his motto “Live for humanity” almost seem a thing of the past. For so...

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Edinburgh Handedness Inventory

The author on the synthetic Euroclay court of his home club. When I play tennis, I serve with my right hand and generally volley with my left hand, although on occasion, when a deep ball is unplayable...

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Of Antanaclasis, Buffalo, and Police

One of the delightful-est portions of Mark Forsyth’s delightful book The Etymologicon is his detour into the wonders of antanaclasis. This five-dollar word describes the lexical trick of using a single...

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Ultrashort Short For Theatre: Sarah

A lower level hall at Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C.. Centre stage is a bench, on which MAN 1 and MAN 2 are seated side by side. They are both English, in their mid-fifties, and are...

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Jethro Massey’s Dust Bowl III

Those lurking about Paris in the early aughts might remember an aspiring young filmmaker by the name of Jethro Massey. He was a pale, bespectacled sort who spoke an abundance of languages and buzzed...

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What Buster Burk Found

Name of Species: Latin: Lucanus cervus; French: Lucane cerf-volant; English: Elephant Stag Beetle Location Found: On a wall of an Auchan mega supermarket in Avallon. Out of the hundreds of articles...

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Alice the Nepali Flying Dog

Copyright Kathrine Piper Those who’ve followed the literary wanderings of Sparkle Hayter know she’s had some peculiar adventures in her life. Just consider a short list of the locales where she’s...

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B.O.G.O.F.

In 1972, psychologist Walter Mischel of Stanford University conducted a study on deferred gratification that has come to be known as the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment. A marshmallow was offered to...

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Horizon Editions

Friends of KMZ Pia Copper-Ind and Christopher Ind have launched a new venture, Horizon Editions, which will publish quality art and photography books about the Middle East and Asia. To mark the...

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Piano Staircase

Two upright pianos were given to me by a man who would usually have paid another man to burn them. My brief was to take a box room as a blank canvas and build into it a staircase sculpture and...

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Romantic narrative / Burroughs technique

He dies Eats a peanut sandwich Naturally A man with a severe peanut allergy It was a kiss of death. And subsequently kisses him His girlfriend Is careful to avoid peanuts click to see poem...

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Cannibalism & Killer Fairies

Killer psychopath bent on revenge or sassy rascal with a heart of gold? When you have small children, you consume a lot of children’s entertainment. And, sometimes you consume the same bit of...

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Buddhist nomad in action!

Quinn Comendant, immersing himself in another project. Keen readers of the Running Eye Blog might have noticed the occasional contribution from Quinn Comendant, the wandering coder from Chico who has...

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MING-MAO-QING

Reading over China-related notes (poking at As Big As The Sky), some interesting connections suggested themselves among the papers paving my study floor. 1. In Ming dynasty China, a bill proclaiming...

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R.I.P. Mike Dineen

Mike Dineen in Earth Mike Dineen passed away last Thursday. In productions I was involved in, Mike played the judge in Earth in Paris and Amsterdam, and 3 in the Châteaudun performance of Part 2 of...

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Sound Mirror

selfie of Sink and the Spurn Bight Sound Mirror by Kate Stables When you think of a Brimstone missile in flight do you imagine yourself watching from its point of departure, in the sky, or on the...

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Paris your plughole is up! Sink le mini tour!

après moi le déluge et le déluge tombe dans le sink à Paris Saturday 8th Nov, 5pm :: Tumbleweed Music sink play Shakespeare & Co., 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 5e later on Saturday 8th Nov, 7.30pm ::...

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Investigate Ethical Investment

I went to Barclays bank today and asked them what their ethical policy was. The lady looked blank. Then a light dawned and she asked did I mean stocks and shares? Her brighter colleague came to her...

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