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• portraits, purple people

  Let it be dainty in its food so that it shall be known as an Imperial dog by its fastidiousness

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Thoughts on the Pekingese by Empress Dowager Cixi:
  Let the Lion Dog be small; let it wear the swelling cape of dignity around its neck; let it display the billowing standard of pomp above its back.
  Let its face be black; let its forefront be shaggy; let its forehead [...]

• imperial watch, portraits, purple people

  I’ve made a huge little mistake

  10.04.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The moral of this tale, my friends, is never use an acrylic-based varnish with watercolors. Is it any mistake it happened to the First Family? Could this be inadvertent acrylic voodoo?
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• portraits, purple people

  Cha cha cha

  10.03.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

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• persophilia, portraits, purple people

  The Purr in Persian

  10.02.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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• talkies

  Aliens!

  10.01.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Aliens in America premiers tonight on the CW. Can someone tell me what that poor kid is wearing?
  P.S. Considering it was filmed in Pasadena and Vancouver, let’s not forget to keep a tally of inaccuracies about Wisconsinites as well as Pakistanis.
  P.P.S. Alessandra Stanley places Aliens in the genre of imaginary friend comedies. As [...]

• imperial watch, persophilia, portraits, purple people

  A-Jad aglitter

  09.28.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

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• imperial watch, portraits, purple people

  Bush

  09.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

• noted

  Affliction with Little Dragons

  07.20.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Have you heard the good news? For those of us who may have lost hope– expect the worst from humanity– no end to war, pollution and the like– the world has been handed an inspiring example in the form of the eradication of everyone’s favorite parasite, the guinea worm. In a recent article [...]

• portraits, stardust

  I am a horse.

  07.17.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  As you can see, I am a magnificent horse. Proof of my magnificence lies in the fact that I was presented as a special gift to First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy by Field Marshal Ayub Khan in 1962. During the First Lady’s resplendent tour of South Asia, she was presented with [...]

• optical character recognition

  Chapati Review: Two Graphic Novels by Sarnath Banerjee

  06.08.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers (Penguin India, 2007), Rs. 395
  Corridor (Penguin India, 2004), $13.00
  by Sarnath Banerjee
  Many moons ago Sepoy posted about the forthcoming ‘first ever’ graphic novel from India, Corridor, by Sarnath Banerjee. I picked up Corridor in Delhi a few years ago and recently learned that Banerjee had a new ’second ever’ graphic [...]