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      Aline Bernstein on Eero Saarinen, 1954

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I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind. I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case. I prefer the color green. I prefer not to maintain that reason is to blame for everything. I prefer exceptions. I prefer to leave early. I prefer talking to doctors about something else. I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations. I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries that can be celebrated every day. I prefer moralists who promise me nothing. I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind. I prefer the earth in civvies. I prefer conquered to conquering countries. I prefer having some reservations. I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order. I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages. I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves. I prefer dogs with uncropped tails. I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark. I prefer desk drawers. I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here to many things I've also left unsaid. I prefer zeroes on the loose to those lined up behind a cipher. I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars. I prefer to knock on wood. I prefer not to ask how much longer and when. I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that existence has its own reason for being.

  Possibilities, Wislawa Szymorska

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source : fischli/weiss, zurich, 1991

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COW ECONOMICS

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away…

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank,  then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of Democracy….

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

source : popbitch

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SOME HOME REMEDIES FOR A SORE THROAT

Bake onions in an open fireplace; then tie them around your throat.

Gargle with honey and vinegar.

Rub pine oil on your throat.

Gargle with salty water.

Put a drop of kerosene on a lump of sugar and eat it.

Gargle with a half cup of water, two tablespoons of vinegar, and a half teaspoon of salt.

Take a sock you have worn inside a boot and worked in for almost a week so that it has a bad odor.  Tie it around your neck.

source : the foxfire book - hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living. (1972)

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A COLLECTION

A COLLECTION is a deviation from the system.

A COLLECTION is foppish.

A COLLECTION is transcendental meditation.

A COLLECTION is spiritual.

A COLLECTION is denial of intellect.

A COLLECTION is destruction of order.

A COLLECTION is deliverance from karma.

A COLLECTION is itself erotic.

A COLLECTION is the self awareness of death.

A COLLECTION is an encounter with the divine.

A COLLECTION is madness.

A COLLECTION is the practice of folly.

A COLLECTION is cosmological.

A COLLECTION is the enemy of reason.

A COLLECTION is the "Peter Pan Syndrome".

A COLLECTION is a cosmic response.

A COLLECTION is the negation of concepts.

A COLLECTION is a dimensional trip.

A COLLECTION is romanticism.

A COLLECTION is the unification of life and art.

A COLLECTION is taciturn and talkative.

A COLLECTION changes human story into myth.

A COLLECTION is the integration of all things natural.

A COLLECTION is the exposure of greed.

A COLLECTION is the soul's salvation.

A COLLECTION supersedes time.

A COLLECTION is anarchy.

A COLLECTION is contact with the other world.

A COLLECTION is anti-modern.

A COLLECTION is both sacred and evil.

A COLLECTION raises vibrations.

A COLLECTION does not progress, but only changes.

A COLLECTION is a source of inspiration.

A COLLECTION is a denial of the 20th century.

A COLLECTION is the minus-ionization of the air.

A COLLECTION is minus-entropy.

A COLLECTION is self-replication.

A COLLECTION is the male and female principle embodied.

A COLLECTION is the symmetry of Noitcelloc.

IN A COLLECTION, quantity transforms quality.

A COLLECTION is a realm of beauty.

A COLLECTION is the pursuit of pleasure.

A COLLECTION has no purpose.

A COLLECTION is a gift from the other world.

A COLLECTION has neither principles or rules.

A COLLECTION supersedes materials.

A COLLECTION is an escape from the hell of boredom.

A COLLECTION is the manifestation of a hermit's life.

A COLLECTION is the best orgasm. 

A COLLECTION denies humanism.

A COLLECTION is a drug.

A COLLECTION is the discipline of intuition.

source : A COLLECTION is addictive, tadanori yokoo (1996)

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GRIEF

The 5 stages : DENIAL ANGER BARGAINING DEPRESSION ACCEPTANCE GOODBYE RESTAURANT FLORENT (06-29-08) ...YOU WILL BE MISSED source : kubler-ross; ny times; www.restaurantflorent.com

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NABOKOV'S RULES

Nabokov had three inflexible rules for being interviewed : 1. All questions had to be submitted in writing. 2. Answers would be given in writing. 3. The result had to be published verbatim. source : james salter

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DISHES FOR ARTISTS

BASS FOR PICASSO OEUFS FRANCIS PICABIA GIGOT DE LA CLINIQUE source : alice b. toklas cook book (1954)

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PORFIRIO RUBIROSA

Diplomat. Polo Player. Race-car driver of considerable stamina (did the 24 hours at Le Mans twice). Playboy. Two of his six wives were French movie stars. No. 3 gave him a stable of ponies and a B-25 bomber in a friendly divorce after 53 days of bliss. Not to be outdone, No. 4 gave him $3.5 million, a coffee plantation, and another B-25. Liaisons on the Hollywood A-list : Marilyn Ava Rita Veronica Kim etc. And let's not forget Eva Peron. source : j. peterman company, owner's manual no. 55

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ANNA NICOLE'S BODY ART, A DEFINITIVE LIST

Pair of red lips in the right lower abdominal quadrant Two red cherries on the right mid-pelvis A "Playboy Bunny" on the left anterior mid-pelvis The words "Daniel" and "Papas" on the mid-anterior pelvis region Mixed tattoo on the right lower leg and ankle representing Christ's head; Our Lady of Guadalupe; the Holy Bible; the naked torso of a woman; the smiling face of Marilyn Monroe; a cross; a heart and shooting flames A mermaid on a flower bed with a pair of lips underneath it laying across the lower back source : anna nicole smith's autopsy report, broward county medical examiner

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SRI LANKA, PAST NAMES

Serendip Ratnapida ("island of gems") Taprobane Zeloan Zeilan Seyllan Ceilon Ceylon source : running in the family, michael ondaatje (1982)

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BUCKY'S 40 QUESTIONS

"It is my working assumption that the following forty questions must be definitively answered before we may realistically discuss our respective philosophies and grand strategies." --R. Buckminster Fuller STRATEGIC QUESTIONS 01. What do we mean by universe? 02. Has man a function in universe? 03. What is thinking? 04. What are experiences? 05. What are experiments? 06. What is subjective? 07. What is objective? 08. What is apprehension? 09. What is comprehension? 10. What is positive? Why? 11. What is negative? Why? 12. What is physical? 13. What is metaphysical? 14. What is synergy? 15. What is energy? 16. What is brain? 17. What is intellect? 18. What is science? 19. What is a system? 20. What is consciousness? 21. What is subconsciousness? 22. What is teleology? 23. What is automation? 24. What is a tool? 25. What is industry? 26. What is animate? 27. What is inanimate? 28. What are metabolics? 29. What is wealth? 30. What is intuition? 31. What are aesthetics? 32. What is harmonic? 33. What is prosaic? 34. What are the senses? 35. What are mathematics? 36. What is structure? 37. What is differentiation? 38. What is integration? 39. What is integrity? 40. What is "truth? " source : utopia or oblivion, r. buckminster fuller (1969)

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WHAT IMPRESSED WARHOL

Fame--old, new, or faded. Beauty. Classical talent. Innovative talent. Anyone who did anything FIRST. A certain kind of outrageous nerve. Good talkers. Money--especially big, old, American brand-name money. source : pat hackett, the warhol diaries (1989)