Here’s an interesting story that was recently emailed to me, I’m not sure of it’s origin. Well, now……here’s something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they too, will feel edified. Isn’t history more fun when […]
Documents, sketches, post cards and what-not once belonging to Kafka may finally be see the light of day thanks to the untimely death of Esther Hoffe, who recently died at the age of 101. Hoffe was the former secretary and lover to Max Brod–executor and dear friend to Kafka–who fled Nazi germany, suitcases over flowing […]
Maybe the best qualified person to do a film on Antartica?
In India, every year 1.1 million unborn baby girls die before they are born. A disturbing print ad to raise awareness of female foeticide from Contract Advertising Mumbai, for The Aadhar Association’s, Stop Female Foeticide campaign, has won the Cannes Lions Award 2008. Here’s the ad:
As I thought about Raccoons, it made me think of my sister, Nani Power, a wonderful writer, who incidentally has a new book (can’t wait to read it!) coming out this month, called “Feed the Hungry”, a memoir about growing up in Virginia and her immersion into the culinary world through family and friends. There’s […]
While searching for Narwhals the other day, I came across a site that sells oosiks or baculum (yes, the name of penis bones found in some animals such as walruses, seals, Coyote, Raccoon, even chimps!). It seems ladies in the South carry around Raccoon oosiks, fondly called “pecker picks” which they use as toothpicks at […]