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November 16
‘Vintage Dizainier Scout Finger Rosary Ring’, Etsy, $22

‘Vintage Dizainier Scout Finger Rosary Ring’, Etsy, $22

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Facts Prove No Match for Gossip, It Seems

“The researchers set out to test the power of gossip, which has been exalted by theorists in recent decades. Language, according to the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, evolved because gossip is a more efficient version of the “social grooming” essential for animals to live in groups.

Apes and other creatures solidify their social bonds by cleaning and stroking one another, but the size of the group is limited because there’s not enough time in the day to groom a large number of animals.

Speech enabled humans to bond with lots of people while going about their hunting and gathering. Instead of spending hours untangling hair, they could bond with friendly conversation (“Your hair looks so unmatted today!”) or by picking apart someone else’s behavior (“Yeah, he was supposed to share the wildebeest, but I heard he kept both haunches”).”
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Perou, ‘Perou Hirst’ 2009 See also: Zhang Huan, ‘Zhu Gangqiang No. 10’, 2009 And also: Pig Leg, unknown And also also: Honky is a corruption of hungy or hunky, a term which originated in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago And happy: Fred Einaudi, Tulips And lastly: Michael Moore, Roger & Me, ‘Pets Or Meat’ 1989

Perou, ‘Perou Hirst’ 2009

See also: Zhang Huan, ‘Zhu Gangqiang No. 10’, 2009

And also: Pig Leg, unknown

And also also: Honky is a corruption of hungy or hunky, a term which originated in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago

And happy: Fred Einaudi, Tulips

And lastly: Michael Moore, Roger & Me, ‘Pets Or Meat’ 1989

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Walton Ford, ‘The Debt To Pleasure’ 2006 (detail) “There is an erotics of dislike. It can be (I am indebted to a young friend for the helpful phrase) “a physical thing.” … To like something is to want to ingest it, and in that sense is to submit to the world. To like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death. But dislike hardens the perimeter between the self and the world, and brings clarity to the object isolated in its light. Any dislike is in some measure a triumph of definition, distinction, and discrimination - a triumph of life.” -John Lanchester, ‘The Debt to Pleasure’ page 6-7

Walton Ford, ‘The Debt To Pleasure’ 2006 (detail)

“There is an erotics of dislike. It can be (I am indebted to a young friend for the helpful phrase) “a physical thing.” … To like something is to want to ingest it, and in that sense is to submit to the world. To like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death. But dislike hardens the perimeter between the self and the world, and brings clarity to the object isolated in its light. Any dislike is in some measure a triumph of definition, distinction, and discrimination - a triumph of life.” -John Lanchester, ‘The Debt to Pleasure’ page 6-7

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“ I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. The Meatmen
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Walton Ford, ‘Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de Camp’ 2002 (detail) See also: “Dirty Dick” Burton translated the Kama Sutra, thought Islam better than Christianity, praised polygamy and wrote treatises on human sacrifice Also also: gray langur And also: Hiroshi Watanabe, Monkeys, Amber Fort, Jaipur, India

Walton Ford, ‘Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de Camp’ 2002 (detail)

See also: “Dirty Dick” Burton translated the Kama Sutra, thought Islam better than Christianity, praised polygamy and wrote treatises on human sacrifice

Also also: gray langur

And also: Hiroshi Watanabe, Monkeys, Amber Fort, Jaipur, India

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“ Who gossips with you will gossip about you. Unknown, traditional
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Vintage orange SUV in the rain, BMW grill, Brooklyn late nights

Vintage orange SUV in the rain, BMW grill, Brooklyn late nights

November 14
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Billy Bragg - ‘A New England’ 1983 (purchase)

From Siege’s Summer of 17 mix, songs that were on heavy rotation in my Camaro the summer after I dropped out of high school.

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Fonville Winans, Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans 1932 “One of the all-time favorite tourist attractions of the New Orleans French Quarter is Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, on the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Phillip Street. It was built sometime before 1772, and is one of the few remaining original “French architecture” structures in the French Quarter. Two devastating fires, one in 1788, and the other in 1794, all but destroyed New Orleans. Hundreds of buildings - businesses and residences - were destroyed. New Orleans, and Louisiana, was under Spanish rule at the time, and the city was rebuilt as a Spanish styled city, replacing what was a crudely built French port and trading post. Tradition has it that the Lafitte brothers operated this blacksmith shop as a legitimate appearing business, serving as a front for their privateer enterprises. One of the brothers was the infamous Jean Lafitte, Privateer, and co-hero of the Battle of New Orleans.” -At New Orleans, ‘Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop’

Fonville Winans, Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans 1932

“One of the all-time favorite tourist attractions of the New Orleans French Quarter is Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, on the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Phillip Street. It was built sometime before 1772, and is one of the few remaining original “French architecture” structures in the French Quarter.

Two devastating fires, one in 1788, and the other in 1794, all but destroyed New Orleans. Hundreds of buildings - businesses and residences - were destroyed. New Orleans, and Louisiana, was under Spanish rule at the time, and the city was rebuilt as a Spanish styled city, replacing what was a crudely built French port and trading post.

Tradition has it that the Lafitte brothers operated this blacksmith shop as a legitimate appearing business, serving as a front for their privateer enterprises. One of the brothers was the infamous Jean Lafitte, Privateer, and co-hero of the Battle of New Orleans.” -At New Orleans, ‘Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop’

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Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian c1930s See also: Mardi Gras Indians have been parading in New Orleans at least since the mid-19th century Also also: Mardi Gras Indians Do Battle 2007 And this: Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians On Martin Luther King Boulevard And also: Mardi Gras Indians Show Their Feathers, Central City

Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian c1930s

See also: Mardi Gras Indians have been parading in New Orleans at least since the mid-19th century

Also also: Mardi Gras Indians Do Battle 2007

And this: Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians On Martin Luther King Boulevard

And also: Mardi Gras Indians Show Their Feathers, Central City

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Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras c1930s

Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras c1930s

November 11
“ The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A Note To Young Art Directors and The Photographers That Work With Them

See also: Art Ethics

Also also: You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice
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The birthplace of the New Orleans Po-Boy, Martin Brothers Restaurant, and John Gendusa Bakery, c1931. (photo poboyfestneworleans) NYT: “The Martins were onetime streetcar workers who, at the height of the strike, pledged to feed their former colleagues at their sandwich and coffee stand. “Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming,” Bennie Martin later recalled, “one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’ ”Over time, by way of various elisions, both vernacular and purposeful, po’ boy or po-boy became the widely accepted renderings of poor boy. In the process, as vowels and consonants were swallowed, the roots of the sandwich were, too.“I can’t imagine there’s another American food item that owes its birth to labor violence,” Dr. Mizell-Nelson said. “That’s the forgotten story.” See also: how to order a po-boy, dressed or nuttin’ on it. Don’t even get me started on the muffuletta

The birthplace of the New Orleans Po-Boy, Martin Brothers Restaurant, and John Gendusa Bakery, c1931. (photo poboyfestneworleans)

NYT: “The Martins were onetime streetcar workers who, at the height of the strike, pledged to feed their former colleagues at their sandwich and coffee stand. “Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming,” Bennie Martin later recalled, “one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’ ”
Over time, by way of various elisions, both vernacular and purposeful, po’ boy or po-boy became the widely accepted renderings of poor boy. In the process, as vowels and consonants were swallowed, the roots of the sandwich were, too.
“I can’t imagine there’s another American food item that owes its birth to labor violence,” Dr. Mizell-Nelson said. “That’s the forgotten story.”

See also: how to order a po-boy, dressed or nuttin’ on it.

Don’t even get me started on the muffuletta