January 22, 2010
This is my last post on grow-a-brain.
Thanks for the nearly 20,000,000 visitors who checked in during the 7 years I blogged here.
I can be found at my new, personal site, Grow-a-baby, dedicated to Adora, the person above. You may contact me through the email there.
Hanan Levin
January 22, 2010 in A new Direction, Personal | Permalink | Comments (49) | TrackBack (0)
January 08, 2010
January 8, 2010 in Cinema - "The Godfather" | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
De
Cabeza by Spanish photographer Jorge Miguel
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Leaf
Lines, another flicker set
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Evening Standard Billboards
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Sir
Jefferey Hudson: A dwarf presented in a pie to King Charles I. 1619-1682
January 8, 2010 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Books You Can Live Without
“…As
an 81-year-old bookseller at one of the largest used bookstores in
January 8, 2010 in Bookstores | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What to do with your ‘third week of March’
When
Pope John Paul died, Rogers Cadenhead quickly registered www.BenedictXVI.com
thinking this might be the name chosen by the new pope. When Cardinal Ratzinger
was elected Pope he did choose the name Pope Benedict XVI, causing many to
question what the
Cadenhead
didn't ask the
1.
Three days, two nights at the
2.
One of those hats (referring to the bishop's hat).
3.
Complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987.
Wonder
what Rogers
January 8, 2010 in Spirituality | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A
fascinating ‘Ask Me Anything’ thread on Reddit: I was once a homeless meth
addict living on the streets for two full years and have since turned my life
around.
Also,
from homelessness to becoming a billionaire: The story of john Paul DeJoria
January 8, 2010 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Top
10 Biggest Food Network Foodgasms Of 2009
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Parisian
murals by Street artist Gorellaume
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Life
in a Yurt, with a NYT article behind the slideshow
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Concrete
mushrooms: A project about the 750,000 bunkers left over from the communist era
of
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The
56 Geeks Project, by Scott Johnson
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Street
installations by Mark Jenkins
January 8, 2010 in Do Something with your Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Selma Blair,
photographed by Norman Jean Roy at the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, North of here,
in
Actually,
things are not looking that hot around here. More like This or like this
January 8, 2010 in Riverside & Corona - California | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Meet
Michael Amyx. The
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Alan
Taylor about the year after he developed “The Big Picture” blog
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Lucite
& glass rings, arranged by color swatches
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Why
chicks cry –Images of women and girls crying, taken from DC romance comics 1957
to 1968
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A 100 trillion dollar note from Zimbabwe
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Corporate
takeover 9, at ‘Worth 1000’
January 8, 2010 in Crime & Punishment | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Portraits of the Hadza people by-
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by inch, Barack Obama is moving mountains
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Colorful
photos of slithering snakes
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January 8, 2010 in Middle East | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono took time off to buy second-hand jeans at a flea market in Paris
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Lather
was thirty years old today,
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
His leather chair waits at the bank.
And Sergeant Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.
But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands
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Chris
Isaak sings ‘Blue moon’
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And
on the eighth day of Chanukah my true love gave to me an official Richard Nixon
showerhead
January 8, 2010 in Music - Beatles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
January 01, 2010
Our Swedish hero
Make yourself
or someone you know into a hero
January 1, 2010 in Heroes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
40 years ago today, I stopped eating meat. Time surely flies fast when you're having fun.
(I only remember the date because this was when I left my parents' home & moved to Jerusalem, to become a poor beatnik/poet). Anyway, Happy New Year and Happier New Decade, everyone.
January 1, 2010 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
December 27, 2009
A guided tour
in Yuri Arcurs' studio at Aarhus (Denmark). See how he works and organize his
sets and get a unique look behind the scenes at one of the most successful and
productive stock photography studios. (Watch in HD).
His other YouTube tutorials can be found on his blog. His current portfolio includes 26,047 files. He sells about 2,000 licenses a day.
(From Francis
Vachon, who asks: You want to make a living shooting for microstock? Well, you
are competing against guys like this. Are you up for the challenge?)
December 27, 2009 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In adult news,
KY Brand has introduced their latest lubricant jelly— a “Cayenne Pepper”
line —that has reportedly added “excruciating hotness” to the bedroom
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Also, "In one of the
largest mass demonstrations in recent history, over one million women claiming
to have had sexual liaisons with Tiger Woods marched on
December 27, 2009 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
"Alas, poor
Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in
my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have
kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now?"
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Bill Bradford’s
wife passed away in June, and this is her purse collection
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Religious
Artifacts Products for Churches
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Ukranian-English
Beer Parlour Songs, and other drug-related LP covers
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Last meal
delivery service provides clients with a replica of a the ‘last meal’ consumed
by someone executed in The United States - $ 20
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She got blame,
from ‘Overheard in
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Sorry the
"Dogtivity" set will no longer be on display, so as not to “offend
anyone”...
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Steve Martin rants
at a car rental clerk in ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ (NSFW but oh-so-true)
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A little
library by Todd Pattison
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How to create a
baconmat
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This portrait
of Beethoven at the age of 13 is the earliest authenticated depiction of the
composer
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Santa school,
right here in
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My favorite photograph (so far) of myself & Adora from my other, new blog, “Adorable”
December 27, 2009 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
December 24, 2009
Christmas Links
The Chemical
Brothers’ “Response”, set to visuals from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
finale
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The Once &
Future Queens – Older women posing as glamorous movie stars
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(Wow, I never
knew that Cliff Richard is gay
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Doilies on
Google Image
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99 Most
Beautiful Names of Allah
December 24, 2009 in Americana - Barack Obama | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
December 21, 2009
Netscapes: Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit
The Internet
surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not
confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph
it. Here are five postcards from the journey of a single bit, as data flashes
from sea to wired sea
December 21, 2009 in Information | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
December 19, 2009
Learn How To
Play The Piano – 40 YouTube lessons
when things
went wrong
I didn’t turn
to drugs or
teaching
I tried to
sleep
but when I
couldn’t sleep
I learned to
write
I learned to
write
what might be read
on nights like
this
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Thanksgiving
Timelapse (2009) by Jared Foster
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I had no idea so many people make a hobby of traveling beneath the sea in homemade junkers they call submarines. Here's a few of these DIY subs...
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Another Pi pie
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(Yes, I'm not here usually. I blog now at Grow-a-baby instead)December 19, 2009 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
"An
old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey" (Re-post from December 7, 2007)
hey Charley I'm
pregnant
and living on 9-th street
right above a dirty bookstore
off Euclid avenue
and I stopped taking dope
and I quit drinking whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track.
and he says that he loves me
even though its not his baby
and he says that he'll raise him up
like he would his own son
and he gave me a ring
that was worn by his mother
and he takes me out dancin
every saturday nite.
and hey Charley I think about you
everytime I pass a fillin' station
on account of all the grease
you used to wear in your hair
and I still have that record
of little anthony & the imperials
but someone stole my record player
how do you like that?
hey Charley I almost went crazy
after mario got busted
so I went back to omaha to
live with my folks
but everyone I used to know
was either dead or in prison
so I came back in minneapolis
this time I think I'm gonna stay.
hey Charley I think I'm happy
for the first time since my accident
and I wish I had all the money
that we used to spend on dope
I'd buy me a used car lot
and I wouldn't sell any of em
I'd just drive a different car
every day dependin on how
I feel.
hey Charley
for chrissakes
do you want to know
the truth of it?
I don't have a husband
he don't play the trombone
and I need to borrow money
to pay this lawyer
and Charley, hey
I'll be eligible for parole
come valentine day
December 19, 2009 in Music - Tom Waits_ | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
December 13, 2009
Izzy
Hot Bikini Girls do The Big
Lebowski
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& out scenes
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By Tom Palumbo
And many more
photographs of Picasso by David Douglas Duncan
(From “Uncertain
Times”)
“Do you want a
smacked bottom now or the other thing when we get home?”
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Obama quilts by
Riché Richardson
and by other
artists
Correction: An
obituary on Tuesday about Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group
Pink Floyd, referred incorrectly to a school he attended. The school, the
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, is an independent day school founded by the
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a guild; it is not a school for
haberdashers.
Unbelievable
Satellite Images!
Does dog taste
like dogs smell?
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Drive-bys at Rajneeshpuram, the
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A collection of
oil cans on flickr
4,000,000,000’th
photo on flickr
Also, The Wtf Sex Can, by Brock Davis
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Photoshops from Sebastian Neidlich
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I should dress
my nephew up as Alex DeLarge
Also, a music video by Bob Dylan, performing The Little drummer Boy from his Christmas album
Indiana antique radio collection
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The 475 sockpuppet accounts of a Wikipedia Global Warming Denier
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BBQ Joints Near
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Playing Hangman (PBF)
Fart Proudly:
Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
and other weird book titles at Abe Books
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4 Babies, the new movie
Row Vs. Wade: Sarasota, FL
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Sweaper clock by Maarten Baas
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I am blogging now instead at the new Grow-a-baby
December 13, 2009 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
November 28, 2009
Baby girl
Yes, I still post here a few links every once in a while, but I spend most of my blogging time now at the new Grow-a-baby website.
À tout à l'heure
November 28, 2009 in A new Direction | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
The Old Closes
and Streets of Glasgow
(From wood’s lot
Also, Hanging
with Frank - Portrait of a
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Sheela na Gigs
are figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva. They
are found on churches, castles and other buildings, particularly in
Also, Vagina
Dentata Sculpture, Mature
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Re-post: The
Degree Confluence Project is an all-volunteer project which aims to have people
visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on
Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online. As of October
30, 2009, 35.19% of the world's primary confluences have been completed
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The mysterious 300
Diquis Spheres of Costa Rica
November 28, 2009 in Traveling Places | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Most recorded
$1 bill at “Where’s George”, found to circulate 15 times -
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The world's largest
collection of tongue twisters
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Re-post: People
playing chess on roller coasters, inspired by a XKCD comic
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55 Useful
Online Generators for Designers
November 28, 2009 in Money & Finances | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
eBay Find of
the Day: George Barris Olds Toronado 70-X is wraparound luxury (with a slide
show)
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The Family
Truckster is a four passenger quadricycle that splits in two to create two back
to back recumbent tandems
By the folks
who brought you The Couch Bike
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Can't Park hereNovember 28, 2009 in Cars | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Amblin' (1968), the
first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short love
story set during the hippie era of the late '60s, about a young couple making
their way through the desert to a paradisiacal beach
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In the early
Nineties, a man called Alan Conway went about
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November 28, 2009 in Cinema - "Jaws" | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Frida Kahlo
Uterus Plushie, complete with uni-brow and an unyielding creative presence.
Only $55
I’ll be gone,
by Korb
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November 28, 2009 in Odds & Ends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
November 22, 2009
I laid traps
for troubadours
Who get killed
before they reached
Bridges to
1969 in Hyde Park
and on 12/6/69 in Altamont
November 22, 2009 in Music | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
My Mike Leavitt
Julia Child, TV
cook
November 22, 2009 in Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bows and flows of angel hair
Leonard Nimoy's
version of ‘Both Sides Now’
November 22, 2009 in Zen | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
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