Author: DXO
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Sad Mannequin
Bad Hair Mannequin, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Mannequins are weird windows into culture. They indicate the value that we place on physical characteristics at any given time. And as times change, you can guage the health of a business based on their mannequin spending. If they’ve got old mannequins, they probably don’t have enough revenue…
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Dan Barry is Our Domestic John F. Burns
My fondness for the writing of John F. Burns is not a secret. But he is a foreign correspondent and doesn’t turn his typing to the cares at home. Dan Barry seems to be our domestic Burns. He takes the same warm stare, the same courage at putting the obvious, but painful, things into print.…
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Trut
Complete text of my 1997 essay, “Trut: The Star, The Globe, and the Missing H in the New Veracity“ So every once in a while I coin a new term or phrase. No one ever notices a whole lot, as this weblog is not exactly slashdot or metafilter, but the coining continues apace. As far…
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“We’re the people they need to be coordinating with.”
Here’s a look at some people who believe in Open Source Emergency Response: Holdouts on Dry Ground Say, ‘Why Leave Now?’ – New York Times. They have a dog to protect them, a car with a full tank of gasoline should they need to leave quickly and a canoe as a last resort. They said…
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Here’s a Long Poem I Read This Morning
I am a poet. At least I used to be. I’ve got the books and the performance tapes and the tour posters to prove it. I write lots of stuff every day, but I don’t write a whole lot of poems anymore. I never read books of poetry– I honestly cannot stand what passes for…