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The Black Widow Agency (book)

from Karin @ Savvy Thinker

While perusing the new book section of our local library, I came across a new (to me) author/book series by Felicia Donovan The Black Widow Agency (Black Widow Agency Mysteries)
In a way, it reminds me of The First Wives Club but it has the added twist of being a mystery series.
The main characters who make […]

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May 16, 2008 | Filed Under , Books | Comments Off 


Mañana

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Time Inconsistent Preferences”The two failures of self-control—the inclinations to procrastinate and to indulge—turn out to be rooted in the same problem: We tend to put too much weight on the here and now when evaluating the costs and benefits of …

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 


Perfumes: The Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez- A Book Review

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

The amount of mental energy I’ve spent over the last three weeks deliberating if I should review the book or not, could have been spent on something far more productive or inspiring. Like catching up on email or organizing my shoes by color. At first, …

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May 13, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Fragrance, Perfume, luca turin, tania sanchez | Comments Off 

Fragrance as Sculpture

from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume

Kurt Anderson of Studio 360 features Perfume in this weeks segment of the nationally syndicated, popular radio program. Fragrance authors Luca Turn and Tania Sanchez of the recent “Perfumes: The Guide” talk with Kurt while walking through aDuane Reade …

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May 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Perfume | Comments Off 

Ah, it’s Friday!

from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume

I’ve had a few enquiries as to what I am currently working on. Generally, an artistic endeavor of some sort is happening here in the studio at all times. In the past the studio was mostly a place for creating illustrations for publications. Now there a…

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May 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, in the studio, inspiration | Comments Off 

New York, The Realest of Them All

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“ONE OF New York’s primary sources of pride, for at least a century, has been its superabundance of small book, music, and art shops, which have done so much to keep the city’s cultural life close to the street. These little palaces of culture have…

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May 6, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Film, Urbanities | Comments Off 

The Wondrous Story of Sand

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead organisms and even degraded manmade structures, sand can reveal the history - both biological and geological - of a local environment. And examined closely enough, as the scientis…

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May 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Photography | Comments Off 

The Poetics of No

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Elizabeth Bishop’s peculiar charm and power, it might well be “No,” which keeps resurfacing at key moments. This was hardly a cry against life’s challenges and opportunities. Rather it was a self…

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May 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Poetry | Comments Off 

Proud Pillar of Civilization

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Everyone loves the idea of the libraries: they are the “envy of the world”. The many endowed by Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the century have frequently been cited as the inspirational and practical source of both culture and education for many, and…

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Oddities, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Phallic Panic: The Fear to Share

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Torn between the need to cuddle and the call of the wild, men no longer know what their role is. No one advocates a return to the sweat lodges, bonfire dancing, and drumming of the Robert Bly wild-man retreats popular in the mid-90s, but male-bonding …

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April 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Isms, Men | Comments Off 

It’s a Jungle Out There

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

JillFilopivic: One issue you tackle a lot is the feminist compromise — how far feminists can or should bend to a patriarchal system in order to just get through their lives, and where feminists should draw the line. The same arguments spring up in the…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Art, Books, Commentary, Isms, Quotes | Comments Off 


Mad, Bad & Sad

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“If male doctors conspired to define madness, responding to behaviors that flouted the social conventions of their culture, female patients, in the attempt to understand themselves and their context, and maybe even to create or bolster identity, collud…

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April 28, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Psychology, Women | Comments Off 

Funky Butte Ranch

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“At age 36, Doug Fine decided “to see if a regular guy who enjoyed his comforts could maintain them with a reduced oil footprint.” And so he bought a parcel of land in southwestern New Mexico, dubbed it the Funky Butte Ranch and dug right into his gree…

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April 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Books | Comments Off 

Wayfaring Stranger

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Consider the condition of the stranger in mid-18th-century America. “Public authority,” writes Sandoval-Strausz, “was deeply invested in policing people’s comings and goings.” Innkeepers were often required to notify officials when strangers…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Society, Urbanities | Comments Off 

The Archimedes Codex unpeeled

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

This is fascinating stuff! It’s amazing to me that the book survived, much less is readable (after 9 years!)

This is about an ancient book called The Archimedes Codex, bought for $2.2 million in October, 1998, at an auction in New York City by an anonymous collector who sent it to the Walters Art Museum, […]

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April 17, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Inspiration and creativity, Memory and forgetting, Opportunity | Comments Off 

Two Kinds of Truth

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as…

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Art, Books, Quotes, science | Comments Off 


The Art Spirit

from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume

“When the artist is alive in a person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understa…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Aritst, Art, Books, inspiration | Comments Off 

Soap Character Writes (and Publishes) Book

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Soap operas, of course, were created for the purpose of selling soap, so it is a reliable formula to use them to peddle products. Nowadays, however, instead of the shows’ being written to support the sponsors’ products, the products themselves are…

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities | Comments Off 

Making study and learning a habit

from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com

This came across my computer from Insight of the Day today:
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There’s enough information on those subjects to keep […]

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April 9, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Joy and happiness, Just thinking, Opportunity | Comments Off 

The Sting of Poverty

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we s…

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April 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Society | Comments Off 


International Woman

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“As Julie Wheelwright suggests in her 1992 study The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage, on which both Murphy and Shipman draw, Mata Hari’s death was a useful tool in wartime social control: “The demonization that followed he…

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April 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Society, Women | Comments Off 

The American Graces

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Female Artist-Adventurers: Joni, Carly, Carole”They came of age—and to music stardom—in the 60s and 70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risktaker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. Today they are activis…

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March 31, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Music, Women | Comments Off 

Celebs Have Big Heads

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I was quickly to become weary of my encounters with celebrities, which were endless. There tended to be remarkable similarities in the breed. On the whole, celebrities, I discovered, have large craniums - literally big heads (if you took a…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Urbanities | Comments Off 

Thinking Hard Is Free of Charge

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light”The brain uses 12 watts of power, about the same amount of energy as in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it’s an energy hog. It is only 3 per cent of the body…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 


Maybe We Like the Same Books!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Marco Roth, an editor at the magazine n+1, said: “I think sometimes it’s better if books are just books. It’s part of the romantic tragedy of our age that our partners must be seen as compatible on every level.” Besides, he added, “sometimes…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Life | Comments Off 

I Am Joan Crawford

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“George Cukor, who directed Crawford in The Women (1939), understood that the “camera saw a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw.” It’s a truism that every film star knows how to make love to the camera; in Crawford’s case, it was…

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March 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Film | Comments Off 

The Adaptability of Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Reading, says Wolf, changed history. More than that, it changes the brain. It creates new pathways in the brain, and, by doing this, makes us think in new ways. When you read, you see letters written on a page, then you recognise them as representatio…

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March 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Literature, science | Comments Off 

Second Lives

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“[I]f there is anything more boring than minute detail about miscreants capitalizing on bugs in the system or terrorists whose “bombs,” at worst, shut down servers, I don’t know what it is. Even Second Life resident Anshe Chung, who parlayed her virtua…

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March 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Dreamscape, Life | Comments Off 

Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Even more than in the eye or the nose, cleanliness exists in the mind of the beholder. Every culture defines it for itself, choosing what it sees as the perfect point between squalid and over-fastidious.”"To modern Westerners, our definition of cleanl…

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March 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Perfume, Society, Style | Comments Off 


Bal Masqué

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Blogging at its freest is like going to a masked ball. You can say all the spiteful, infantile things you wouldn’t dream of saying if you were in print or face to face with another human being. You can flirt with anyone, or try to. You can tell the Pr…

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March 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Style | Comments Off 

Freedom of the Book

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“David Bidussa reminds [in Italian] Tariq Ramadan and all the others who criticised the Turin Book Fair for inviting Israel as its guest country, that things are far more amiss in Arab countries than in Northern Italy. “It is not what they are saying t…

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March 5, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Commentary, Isms, Literature | Comments Off 

Send Yourself Roses

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“I mean this as a compliment: I can see why drag queens love Kathleen Turner. Unlike the interchangeable blandettes who decorate today’s movies, Turner has texture. She has grit and class, she’s sexy and regal, she’s no-nonsense and divalicious. She’s …

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March 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Film, Style | Comments Off 

The New Black

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Mourning, Melancholia & Depression”Darian Leader, in his compelling and important new book, suggests we need to redefine depression “as a set of symptoms that derive from complex and always different human stories”. He states that “to treat a depre…

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February 22, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Life, Psychology | Comments Off 

Aphrodite did a bad bad thing: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips- A Book Review

from Gaia, The non-blonde @ The Non-Blonde

I knew I was going to like this book when one page into it I read the following:”Are you talking to me?” said the tree. It had a faint Australian accent.”Yes” said Artemis. “I am Artemis”. If the tree experienced any recognition, it didn’t show it. “I’…

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February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Marie Phillips | Comments Off 

Welcome Passion

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Reading Clarice Lispector”There was a time, in my early twenties, when I teetered on the edge: I was living in Harlem like a squatter; I was drifting between magazine jobs (publications all seemed to fold soon after I joined); I was looking for signs??…

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January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Books, Literature, Style | Comments Off 

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