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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:37:22 -0800

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Almost Perfect

Narcissistic anorexic so unstuck but so pretty
I love you
Vira lotta very donkey you're the only truth in this city
Don't ever change
Don't change good champagne for some sad idiot and then complain
That's good advice
But a lady who has two black eyes is not the best one to advise
She's already been told twice

Don't ever change (why oh why oh why oh)
Would you ever change (oh oh oh)
Please don't ever change
You're almost perfect
You're almost perfect
You're almost perfect

Paranoiac drug addicted pornographically afflicted
Sleep with me
Two legs a cock a woman's soul strange habits that you can't control
Oooh show them to me
You can hardly say this woman only wants you for your money
You who have naught
Come inside my hive where bees are busy making honey
Oooh love is about

Don't ever change (why oh why oh why oh)
Would you ever change (oh oh oh)
Please don't ever change
You're almost perfect
You're almost perfect
You're almost perfect

- Pretenders, excerpt "Almost Perfect" from Break Up the Concrete

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Manhattan: Fashion Week, February 2005
� Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos

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Paris: Herm�s, February 2008
� Christopher Anderson | Magnum Photos

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Manhattan: Fashion Week, 2005
� Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos

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Manhattan: Women's autumn/winter Pr�t-a-Porter, February 2005
� Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos

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Paris: Givenchy show at the Bourdelle Museum, 15th arrondissement, January 2006.
� Christopher Anderson | Magnum Photos

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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:41:40 -0800

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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can

without going over.

Out on the edge

you see all kinds of things

you can't see from the center.

—KURT VONNEGUT

France, Pont de Normandie, 1994.��|��Jean Gaumy, Magnum Photos

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Fri, 26 Dec 2008 07:08:37 -0800

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Dmitri Debabov��|��Arctic Images

from the page

Dmitri Debabov studied photography and film along with his friend, Sergei Eisenstein, at the High State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After graduating in 1926, he was employed as a photojournalist with the newspapers Izvestiia and Komsomolskaia Pravda. He traveled often, accompanied by his wife, the photographer Margarita Debabov. He was particularly interested in new construction projects throughout the nation then being implemented under the first Five Year Plan. He also traveled into the Arctic with Soviet ice-breakers, and to other parts of the Soviet Union. He died in 1949, struck down by a brief, fatal illness in Siberia. His legacy includes important documentation of the first Five Year Plan, documentation of the folkways of Russians living the Altai mountain range, the Chukch and Taimyr peninsulas, and other locations, and technological advancements in Arctic photography.

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Poliarnaya noch��|��Polar Night, 1935
Period gelatin silver print, 1935
For many years, this image hung in President Roosevelt's office in the White House.

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Two hunters
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1932

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Chukotka. Dva transporta.��|��Chukotka. Two means of transport.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1937

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Dmitri Debabov in the Arctic, 1936��|��Margarita Debabova, photographer
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1936

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Novaia, schastlivaia zhizn' prishla i na delekii Sever.��|��A new, happy life has also come to the Far North.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1930s

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Fur traders
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1935

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An Arctic Road
Vintage gelatin silver print, 1938

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:50:46 -0800

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Happy Holidays, Friends!

May all good things bloom bright and beautiful for you in the coming year,

no matter where,

no matter what.

Krakow, Poland: A florist's, December 2006
� Mark Power / Magnum Photos

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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:26:47 -0800

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A conversation on the way to a party

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In which Kerry and I smack on some lipstick and drive to a holiday get-together.
I am a terrible wingwoman.

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A conversation after the party

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In which Kerry and I repair to a local pub.

~ excerpt from image, San Francisco trip 2001, Steve Liska ~

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Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:29:30 -0800

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Now dash away,

dash away,

dash away, all!

Yamalo-Nenets, Russia: Reindeer in an autonomous district
in the center of Russia's Far North, on the West Siberian Plain, 2006.
� Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Magnum Photos

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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:46:08 -0800

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Desire is such a tricky thing.

Manhattan - Bernstein, 1958.
� Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:50:38 -0800

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Winter Conversation

I listen to you explain the difference
between a right brain thought and a left.
I am distracted by the smell
of cold on your face.
I lick it away like a child
with an ice cream cone
sticky fingers and sweet tongue.

Aware that I have been here before
I pause in your words.
I have slept in this flesh,
dreamed these winter bones.

Waking in the darkness between us
I hear frost sweeping the porch,
edging toward the morning.
I reach for your hand.

What, you whisper, voice hoarse with dream.
My lips, swollen with you, cold,
are silent.

- Joyce Wakefield

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:28:24 -0800

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The Next President

The flagship editorial from The New York Times says it all.
This is one of the best and most comprehensive commentaries I've read in recent memory.

Please do read and enjoy.

Congratulations, America. You make me proud.

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Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:55:54 -0800

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Can you believe I've never reviewed Professor TapwaterJ?

I think it's high time I rectify that and send some sugar his way.

[ What to say... what to say... ]

At least this...

play on, brother.

Chet Baker by Bob Willoughby

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