Unleashed

When Mr. Bush visited the Russian president’s dacha outside Moscow, Mr. Putin’s Labrador bounded out to greet them. Comparing his dog to Mr. Bush’s smaller Scottish terrier, Mr. Putin turned to Mr. Bush and said, “Bigger, tougher, stronger, faster, meaner — than Barney,” Mr. Bush’s dog. Mr. Bush’s aides say they take the tale as a mark of a friendship strengthened by a little needling. But Russian policy analysts said they heard a different message in the story when Mr. Putin told it to them.

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a brief history of tshirts

Recently, I purchased the shirt below, entirely oblivious to its association with 9/11. Its kind of like one of those magic pictures where sometimes when I look at it I see nothing to do with 9/11. and then I look at it and I can see the ironic bratty little anti-patriotic apathetic brooklyn hipsters.


well I wore it anyway, and got a taste of that old-fashion embarrasSment a-la up the stairs in a skirt too short. I was behind 5 firefighters in Matthew's pizza and kept crossing my arms and holding my purse in front of me like a cardboard flyer.

here's the latest urge:

secret hotel

been catching up on my utter lack of north korean culture and history. Found this interesting, odd, sad, well-written photo essay: