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Ebay Art

chakalakasp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:52 -0800

"What would you say if I told you that I filled my entire living room with completely original works of art for less than $300?" Andrea Dickson from Wise Bread has found an unlikely -- though, the more you think about it, almost obvious -- place to find original art from new artists: Ebay. If you can filter through the crapload of "artistic nudes", there are plenty of gems, and usually at buyers' market prices. And, as Andrea's mother mused, when it comes to decorating the house, it beats buying mass-produced art from Costco, which is about as original as a Big Mac.

New York Subway

feelinglistless — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:52:20 -0800

London Underground blogger Annie Mole experiences the New York subway for the first time here -> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Fifty People, One Question

Happy Dave — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:04:57 -0800

New Orleans filmmaker Benjamin Reece asks fifty New Orlean's residents a single question: "If you could wish for one thing to happen by the end of the day, what would it be?".

Spam, what is it good for? Apparently something.

jourman2 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:55:20 -0800

Spammers helping with the New Orleans recovery efforts. New Orleans has found a novel use for the massive database used by Valassis Communications' RedPlum direct-mail operation. Normally used to send promotional circulars to virtually every household in the U.S., it's now being used to track the speed of recovery in the Crescent City.

Pavement to the people!

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:42:08 -0800

Hooray for New York City! They just had their first (of three) car-free days along a long stretch of Manhattan roadway: it's the Summer Streets program. How refreshing! This blog entry from Livable Streets might be of some interest to any of you New Yorkers who'd like to help with this in some way.

With allies like these who needs enemies?

Samuel Farrow — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:58:10 -0800

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice surprised New Zealand during her visit by calling us allies, despite our long history of disagreement over certain issues. The Auckland Student Association's shameless plug for self promotion has prompted a response.

This deal here is new

dersins — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:55:46 -0800

"New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources was created to serve as a starting point for research using Library of Congress collections of New Deal program materials." Includes links to numerous collections of digitized materials, including photos, posters, music, manuscripts and more. Some of these individual sites have been linked here before, but the "New Deal Programs" portal in the first link is the first time the individual collections have been...uh... collected by the LOC.

Gore Vidal on The New York Times Magazine

falameufilho — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:17:05 -0800

Gore Vidal on The New York Times Magazine. On McCain: "Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?". On WFB's death: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred". Ah, like a fine wine, some people do get better with age.

Brutal New York

concreteforest — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:40:56 -0800

I've only ever seen 70 & 80's era New York in movies and I've never really thought about their source of inspiration. Until I saw this.(a few graphic photos on that last link)

Antipodean fun

steerpike — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:40:29 -0800

In celebration of my antipodean homesickness I've spent the morning catching up with some great Australian and New Zealand musical comedy acts I've been to. You've already met Flight of the Conchords previously on mefi. Now come and meet some... Flight of the conchords have appeared previously on mefi (as well they should) but you might be excited to know they aren't the only antipodean musical comedy act! Come and meet some of the others. We'll start with the original bad boys of musical comedy: the Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS); as likely to leap into the crowd to pash someone as spit on them, DAAS live shows were an anarchic mix of foul songs(NSFW), spoken word, actual great singing and, if you were lucky enough to catch one of their later gigs, this song. More recently we have Tripod who continue the three piece theme but are a bit more user friendly and who are gonna make you happy. Women represent in the form of the Kranzky sisters who...well, defy description really. Across the water we also get the foul mouthed Ms Peacock They're not exactly musical, but unusual sound does play a big part with The Umbilical Brothers