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• Commented on Street-cons on probation in Naples work as free tour-guides
  Defusion, I came here to say EXACTLY the same thing!...
• Commented on Dery and Lecter do Italy
  Wasn't it because Harris based Lecter largely on the Monster of Florence?...
• Commented on Michelangelo's The Torment of St. Anthony
  This is by no means a universally accepted attribution. Let's hope the Kimball really got their money's worth....
• Commented on Mark Dery: My Roman Holiday
  I just went to the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna for the first time a few weeks ago. You're going to LOVE it....
• Commented on Scenes from an oxytocin party
  Why are you specifying 'sperm' ejaculation.. as opposed to what?...
• Commented on Photos combining real faces and people on paper money
  Ah, how I miss the lira......
• Commented on Underground Fun: European Edition
  As strange as it seems, this was common practice for a couple of reasons. Property was costly. It was cheaper for the architects and churchmen to fill in and build on top of the old church than it was to...
• Commented on Llamas: Nature's Cute & Fluffy Crusaders Against Bioterrorism
  Add me to the list of those who are absolutely loving the Michael Rogalski illustrations....
• Commented on Fool All of the People, All of the Time
  van Meegeren :(...
• Commented on Fool All of the People, All of the Time
  ETI @ 27 I think the Gardner actually recieved some paint chips years ago that prooved to be fake w/ analysis. Also, thanks for the new book list on van Meergen- I never understood how these paintings ever fooled anyone...
• Commented on Our World
  How did they manage to NOT render the land-masses correctly?...
• Commented on Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA
  She's 24- give the kid a break. I enjoy the series very much so far. I hope she gets progressively kinkier as she gets into the 20th century....
• Commented on Old Boy's Life comic with plane and WTC
  Usual Suspect, thanks for that link @ 34....
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  This thread has had me thinking all day. I think my list is over 150 at this point- and I LOVE seeing everyone else's. Thanks for the great post. /adds Edward Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Wilson Rawls.../...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  David Macauly, Steven Brust, Richard Trexler, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Leonard Cohen, Many many many of the above, OH, and Madonna. And I'm not afraid to say it....
• Commented on Emoticon from 1862?
  Imagines Lincoln winking alla Palin / Shudders......
• Commented on Youth hostel in a jumbo jet
  Why are there only like three pictures of the rooms on the website?...
• Commented on Kidney removed through vagina
  Awesome Takuan. Awesome....
• Commented on Rigged red-light cameras net $170 million for crooked authorities
  I wish I could say I was surprised....
• Commented on Record London snowstorm defeats the surveillance state
  You know you're not having fun outside when your icicles form diagonally in the windchill. Hang in there guys!...
• Commented on Ryanair will fine passengers who board with too much carry-on
  If you've got an hour google-video the Dispatches investigation of Ryanair. It's an eye-opener. I personally don't think airlines should be able to set a size restriction on carry-on baggage that rules out 100% of carry-ons on the market but...
• Commented on Al Franken vs. Ann Coulter
  She may be the scariest woman on earth....
• Commented on Bruce Sterling's state of the world 2009
  FrankieZ I hear you- but imagine how much worse it's going to get now! Also LOVE fuck*d! Didn't even see it at first- good catch Arkizzle!...
• Commented on Hyper-surveilled handbag in shop-window
  Same in Florence- I almost sent it in to you guys....
• Commented on HOWTO turn a toy piano into a playable shirt
  Bulletproof?...
• Commented on Voices of a People's History of the United States: Fantastic voice actors read the historic work of people who demanded justice from America
  Here we go again......
• Commented on Bill threatens lien, penalty to elderly, blind homeowner who owes one cent
  Dat's South Addaburrah foa ya....
• Commented on Automatic baby walker
  @14 "drill baby drill" FTW....
• Commented on Web 2.0 Summit Videos: Lessig, Kelly, Al Gore, many more
  Man, is Lessig that in-sync with his powerpoint live on stage? Those are some mad presentation skills....
• Commented on Maru the Cat
  Oh my god, the hind legs kill me!...