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Tuesday, August 10 1999

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27 countries, 51 independent book stores, 14 million titles.

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James Twitchell on 'Lifestyle Porn'

"The really interesting question may be not Why are we so materialistic? but Why are we so unwilling to acknowledge and explore what seems to be the central characteristic of modern life?"

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I had no idea that

to go over the edge with rams means to "get far too drunk".

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I'm starting to feel bad.

According to my logs, there continues to be a steady stream of people looking at Children's Books You'll Never See. The plan has always been to illustrate each title, but life and work have sort of gotten ahead of it. I'm working on it, I promise. In the meantime, I've been making an effort to post the work during the various stages of completion.

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Rick Salutin : Is there a fin-de-siecle media style?

"Those who grew up before the nineties still have some sense of a world which can be interpreted by super-personal schemas: communism, social democracy, fascism, Catholicism, surrealism, whatever."

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The Times : The New American Gold Rush

Oh great, it's the eighties all over again. Happy, happy. Joy, joy.

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