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Even if there are vacant seats beckoning me to take them and catch up on sleep, I remain standing so I can look out the window easily. The tops of buildings fly by. It always impresses me how many people have made the effort to get onto the roofs to send messages to the train passengers. Graffiti—often large, colorful and elaborate—enliven the tar-covered surfaces of the building tops. “Put the Christ back in Christmas,” reads one framed poster placed atop a roof. It has faced the tracks...
...hand-made ?minis? are part of the major draw of a show like the MOCCA Art Festival. Normally only available, if you know about them, through the mail or at hyper-intelligent alternative media stores, these little chapbooks are a window to the future of comics. Two of my favorites were Kevin Huizenga?s ?Gloriana Comics,? and Jonathan Bennett?s ?Esoteric Tales.? Huizenga?s book, about a young, expectant father, moves from silly gags to moments of contemplation to astrological physics, including a grand cosmological map that folds out of the center. In contrast, Bennett?s book couldn...
...accommodations in death. She and her Pharaoh husband lived on the breezy east bank of the Nile in a palace stuffed with throne rooms, pools and spacious courtyards. She was both queen and goddess, serving as a high priest at religious ceremonies and standing by her husband at the Window of Appearances. Yet the culture whose pyramids, mummies and dazzling burial chambers set the ancient standards for funerary grandeur appears to have forgotten Nefertiti. The glamorous young queen died more than 3,300 years ago, and sometime thereafter her body and all the accoutrements of her entombment disappeared without...
...parents did allow a hint of zoological indulgence. I had a pet turtle. My brother had a parakeet. Both came to unfortunate ends. My turtle fell behind a radiator and was not discovered until too late. And the parakeet, God bless him, flew out a window once, never to be seen again. After such displays of stewardship, we dared...
...Scholar Tsche Chong Kil is found dead at NIS (then called the Korean Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters. Agents say he jumped from a seventh-floor window after confessing to spying for North Korea...