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"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine…"
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art—write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
- Neil Gaiman
(via wordpainting)
- Neil Gaiman
(via wordpainting)
[Article] Japanese Temple Incorporates Anime with Buddhism
Those who’ve been following (for example) Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha graphic novel and its film adaptation, or Deepak Chopra’s “Buddha” comic book, know that it’s not so new to mix Buddhism and comics. But it does seem to work, and one Buddhist temple is getting in on the act.
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Richard Florida = Lyle Lanley
Willy Staley writes:
The Plot: Springfield comes into a few million dollars from Montgomery Burns, who had been fined by the EPA for dumping nuclear waste in city parks. At a town hall meeting to decide what to do with the funds, Marge suggests they fix up Main Street, and the people of Springfield appear ready to agree on that, until Lyle Lanley steps in from nowhere and sings a song about the benefits of a monorail. Long story short, Lanley sells Springfield a faulty monorail and skips town with the profits. It turns out—like Florida—that he had been doing his song-and-dance routine all over the country.
Now I am not suggesting Florida went from town to town deliberately scamming people just like Lanley did (MacGillis stops just short of doing so). But, his product—shiny and new as it is—simply isn’t a fit for every community, just like Lanley’s monorail.
As MacGillis points out, a “tautology lies at the heart of Florida’s theory that has limited its instructive value all along: Creative people seek out places that draw a lot of creative people.” Worse yet, Florida is now admitting that this is true, and by doing so, he “has now taken this closed-loop argument to another level by declaring that henceforth, the winners’ club is closed to new entrants.” And yet before taking this stance, Florida spent years selling his brand of economic development to places like Elmira, New York and Sackville, New Brunswick.
Next American City: Richard Florida’s Monorail
Staley goes on to cite approvingly Matthew B. Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft on economic development.
My thoughts on Florida, and his rival Joel Kotkin, are here and here.
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Top Ten Pagan Stories of 2010 (Part Two)
From Wildhunt
[You can read part one of this entry,_here.] 05. The Druid Network Receives Charitable Status in UK: Perhaps the biggest Pagan-related story coming out of the UK this year was the_Charity Commission’s decision to approve The Druid Network‘s_application as a religious charity. In Britain, there’s a marked difference between a charity and_a nonprofit, and The [...]
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[You can read part one of this entry,_here.] 05. The Druid Network Receives Charitable Status in UK: Perhaps the biggest Pagan-related story coming out of the UK this year was the_Charity Commission’s decision to approve The Druid Network‘s_application as a religious charity. In Britain, there’s a marked difference between a charity and_a nonprofit, and The [...]
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suicideblonde: Angelina Jolie at the Madrid photocall for The…
Angelina Jolie at the Madrid photocall for The Tourist today
Classic and elegant.
fuckyeahtattoos: This is my second tattoo, a fact I never…
This is my second tattoo, a fact I never thought would happen due to me having fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. But I’m strong and I wanted it and so I did it.
When I read Slaughterhouse-Five, I was in Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital, as I had attempted suicide. The phrase really struck home with me, as it is repeated one hundred and sixteen times in the novel, reiterating that life, no matter what, does in fact go on.
The period is blue, and it will get lighter as it heals, is a reference to the photograph “Pale Blue Dot”. It’s a photograph that the space probe Voyager 1 took of Earth from the very edge of our solar system. In that picture, we appear only as a pale blue dot, smaller than the size of a pixel. And to imagine that everything, our whole lives, fights, triumphs, worries, everything is on just that minuscule dot.
Well to me, they really just tied together. And that’s my tattoo.
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