miscellaneous monday

There are only 17 countries larger than Alaska.


"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph" - Shirley Temple



1961's "The Visit" - a slideshow collage of pictures taken from an afternoon Marilyn Monroe and Carl Sandburg spent together. The famous poet was 61, the celebrity actress was 35. She would die within a year- he 5 years after that.

If you have even the slightest hint of love for the city of Chicago - this video is every kind of wonderful. It was a project for our terrifically failed 2016 Olympic bid but it's well done. The words move a bit fast, but their newly conceived line breaks add a new element to the famous poet's most famous poem.

"here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities"


The inventor of the Pringles can was buried in a Pringles can.


"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant" - Plato

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?" - Brecht


and on a Korea note: "Coffice" - a term used in South Korea to refer to the using of coffee shops as offices - thanks to their space, free internet and privacy - has made New York Times' "The Words of The Year" list.




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