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Hélas, hélas, hélas ! J’aime une fille qui a une très jolie nuque, de...
– Michel Poiccard
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Ascent into Heaven or Descent into Hell, video... →
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David Lynch Interview Project - TJ →
David Lynch presents a project in which his son Austin and his friend Jason drove around the country and shot 4-5 minute interviews with all the assorted strangers they met on the road. There are 121 interviews in all, and David Lynch introduces each one.
This makes me think maybe I should become a... →
Zen, gaizen and how to create elegance in what you... →
Home-dried tomatoes
OVEN-DRIED TOMATOES
This is Alastair Little’s recipe from his book Keep It Simple.
16 ripe plum tomatoes
4 tablespoons olive oil
salt
1 teaspoon caster sugar
Preheat the oven to 300F/150C/Gas 2 and drizzle olive oil over two baking trays. Cut the tomatoes into halves from stem to stern.
Slide the knife round the inside of of each half to remove pulp and pips, leaving you with something that...
the 'ahh-ness' of things
Mono no aware (物の哀れ ,mono no aware?, lit. “the pathos of things”), also translated as “an empathy toward things,” or “a sensitivity of ephemera,” is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing. The term was coined in the eighteenth century by the Edo-period Japanese cultural...
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