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NOT the Teddy Bear!

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Making the Dogs of ‘Isle of Dogs’

A closer look at the process of designing four of the dogs that populate the director Wes Anderson’s new film.

I loved this movie. My American friend Jill and I saw it together and both of us wished we’d brought our Japanese friends/family members to get their reaction to it. Sure, it’s set in Japan and has that culture at the center of it, but it’s Japan filtered through an American director’s imagination. 

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The Lost Giant of American Literature

A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?

This is an amazing story of a great find at a junk store along the side of the road. I’d never heard of this novelist.

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

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Don’t tease me; I hope this is real.

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“We all know that the press is under siege these days, but we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice." Watch Oprah Winfrey’s amazing speech at the Golden Globes.

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Best moment of the Golden Globes: our future president takes the stage.

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“He’s got hours upon hours of audio. Not only that, but the book has already caused legitimate upheaval in the administration, opened a permanent rift between President Trump and Bannon, AND it confirms what we have all always known to be true: that the president severely lacks the cognitive ability to do this job, and that he is surrounded at all times by a cadre of enablers, dunces, and outright thieves. As much as I wanna discredit Wolff, he got receipts and, more important, he used them. Wolff got it all. Wolff nailed them.”

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[timothybear]

Destruction of the environment is their top priority at the EPA now.

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Kevin Short, a towering figure in West Hollywood known as WeHo Jesus, dies at 57

Kevin Short, known in West Hollywood as WeHo Jesus, died at 57 last month after a brief illness.

I used to see “WeHo Jesus” walking along Fountain Avenue on my commute home from work. Sad to lose an eccentric character who made our lives a little more bright. He made me smile.

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Imagine having one of the worst days of your professional life play out in front of 5 million people.

ABC News anchor Dan Harris doesn’t have to. In 2004, he had a panic attack on live TV after years of working in war zones and using drugs to cope with the stress. But that mortifying moment led him to take up meditation.

He wrote a book about it, 10% Happier: How I Tamed The Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works — A True Story, in which he mentioned the research that suggests meditation can lower blood pressure, help with depression and increase awareness. The book sold well, but Harris still thought its impact fell short.

“In that first book I made this naive assumption that — I didn’t think anybody would read it — but anybody who did read it would want to meditate and would meditate,” Harris says. “And it was pretty quickly after the book was out that I realized that that [was] not true. It’s just complete underestimation of how hard it is for us to create healthy habits.”

‘Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics’ Offers Practical Advice For Stressed-Out Cynics

Illustration: Jamie Jones/Ikon Images/Getty Images

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Screenwriter and LGBTQ Activist Dustin Lance Black, HARDtalk - BBC World Service

Stephen Sackur speaks to the American Screenwriter and LGBTQ activist Dustin Lance Black

Just heard this interview from earlier in 2017 re-broadcast on BBC World Service. Thanks for your work, DLB.

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Happy New Year!

Make 2018 a great year, everyone.

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“This is Dawn Davenport. Dawn Davenport. You made love to me Christmas morning.” Divine (as Dawn Davenport) from John Waters’ Female Trouble, 1974

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Have a Divine Christmas!

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Thanks, Roborange! It’s true, it’s true.

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Liberace’s annual Christmas party 1969 with Fay McKay and Johnny Mathis.

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Happy Christmas!

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Highly realistic

[timothybear]

Thanks, GlitteringGoldie!

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“You are a wave that has crashed upon the shore.”

I’m trying to get one last book read before the year ends, and “Lincoln In The Bardo” is turning out to be an excellent choice. If you like “Our Town” or “Spoon River Anthology” or anything to do with the Civil War, then you’ll love this one. Chapter XXIX shattered me with wonder. It takes a little getting used to the conventions the author uses here, but once you get into the swing of it, the story sweeps you up.

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Good read.