Grace keeps all of Cady’s things in a crib so that no one ever forgets to whom she really belonged. Stuffed rabbits, snap-on black leather bracelets with metal studs, half-used hair dye—Enchanted Forest and Electric Lava—black nail polish, a plastic record player, Mutant Ninja Turtle stickers...

NOVEMBER 24 — TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Decadent French society painter, illustrator, anarchist. NOVEMBER 24 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF SILENCE.������������ THE WORLD IS A PAPER AIRPLANE DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY… 1632 — Philosopher Baruch Spinoza born, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1713 —...

About this document: Idea-rich early announcement broadside (there will be more) for an event that happened on either April 2, 1967 or April 9, 1967. Author is anonymous, as most of the best Diggers documents are, but one would guess that Peter Berg, Lenore Kandel and (perhaps?) Peter Coyote and...

Corporate marketers discover guerrilla gigs—and another assault on the public is born. From the New York Times: Something to Rah-Rah-Rah About for Christmas By STUART ELLIOTT November 11, 2009 …The Gap campaign — created by Crispin Porter & Bogusky in Miami and Boulder, Colo., owned by MDC Partners — includes, in addition to the commercials, print advertisements, a [...]

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More proof that it’s a Taylor Swift world and we just live in it came with Sunday night’s American Music Awards show, where Swift won five prizes. These included artist of the year, which had been expected to go to Michael Jackson. Swift also won favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country...

Elizabeth Cotten’s “Shake Sugaree” is a delightfully whimsical song that carries at its heart a good deal of wisdom. Cotten developed the simple melody of the song from folk sources, and used it as a lullaby when putting her great grandchildren to bed in the evening. She encouraged the kids to...

She looked up. Her face was half shadowed and half lit. Tiny golden hairs played on her upper lip. I slid right behind her while she was watching the hawk, put my mouth to her ear and whispered, “Let’s leave tonight when they’re all asleep.” She thought I was joking but I meant it. I [...]

NOVEMBER 23 — GRACCHUS BABEUF French Revolutionist, founder of the Conspiracy of Equals. NOVEMBER 23, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Japan: NIINAME-SAI, harvest festival. ST. CLEMENT’S DAY: Processions of blacksmiths and (mad) hatters. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 23 IN HISTORY… 1170 BC — First recorded strike...