@15: wish it weren't an infringement of copyright to make a Brancusi dildo. Somehow I don't think the estate would go for it.

#10: Blood Struggle by Charles Wilkinson does a good job of outlining the troubles reservations have had with the middle ground between reliance on federal funding and self-determination in a very positive way, if you're interested in reading more about this.
#12: Hooghans (hogans) are the traditional dwellings of Navajo people.

Evidence that the Mona Lisa was a woman who lived next door to Leonardo at one point was found recently:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/16/mona-lisa-identity.html

There was a guy in Seattle that had "punk" tattooed on his forehead, then changed it to "drunk" because that would be more acceptable for a job search. No joke.

Weird considering a real meteorite hit just a few hundred miles away:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/354330_meteorite10.html?source=rss

There is a 2-second clip of this doing its thing in the documentary
"Germany Dada" (1969, d: Herbst)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=136431249953593225&q=germany+dada&total=74&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Beats my plans for a wig, bong and dickie emporium. This actually makes me jealous of Angelenos for once.

progosk, thanks for that. I almost soiled myself thinking of Luna collaborating with Prada. In a bad way.

Was there ever a truer maxim?

My favorite pulp that I actually read:
http://flickr.com/photos/hangfirebooks/2083485212/

Someone I knew swiped it my copy from me and I had a serious feud with them about it for YEARS.

@eh:
She's obv. kick-out-the-jams awesome, but there are women who are just as beautiful and funny and weird. Like, all over, everywhere, throughout time and space.

I just wonder if this is a vestige of the Inari cult or some other Shinto gesture accompanying birth.

I had a similar shape appear in a ripped portion of faux wood paneling in the single wide we lived in 20 years ago. Wish I'd publicized it. It truly was like a miracle.

So practical! I always feel like a mark looking at a map in public.

Go to the Neue Nationalgalerie (Mies!), then walk along the river past the embassies to the Bauhaus museum. I'll also second seeing the Kaiser Wilhelm church. Crawl around Kreuzberg at 4 am looking down alleys for squat bars. Eat at every pastry shop in the Mitte. Have an egg breakfast and bananakuchen at Schwarzes cafe (Savignyplatz). Graze for hours at a sunday buffet off the Kollwitzplatz and then look around the Kulturbrauerei. Watch Wings of Desire again before you go and then go to Potsdamer Platz and marvel over the changes. Saturday, go to the flea market on str. 17 Juni. I love that town.

The Lakota have a lot of money (nearly a billion dollars) sitting in trust in payment for the Black Hills; they have never taken it. The #4 option isn't likely.

Was this scene in Planet of the Apes or am I dreaming?

The weight of the hair/wigs/wiglets/falls alone is staggering. The foxy ladies of Star Trek should be saluted for their stellar (no pun intended) neck strength if nothing else.

In Victorian England, unescorted women were harassed on the street because they were thought to be prostitutes - lower class women had no other choice besides domestic work - just like now, in certain places. These 'pregnancies' likely afforded un-chaperoned women a certain amount of safety and respect in public.

A friend saw a piece of the Spellbound eyeball backdrop for sale in a gallery in LA about 20 years ago and felt sick he couldn't buy it. Probably the most interesting type of Daliana there could possibly be -

These creatures are based on Vancouver Island first nations epistemology.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/27/bc-mascot.html

Most likely without consultation of those tribes concerning appropriateness. Cute, though.