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Machi Abe Update

Way back in October of 2010 I wrote about the illustrations of Machi Abe included in her husband Kobo Abe’s novel “The Woman In The Dunes”.  There is not a whole lot of information out there with regard to Ms. Abe’s oeuvre, and I included a halfhearted plea for additional info that someone with more […]

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smart bar mural

In November of 2009 I took a trip to San Francisco.  On the flight back to Chicago I started reading Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore”.  Not all that significant an event, but for the fact that in my immersion in learning French and German for about two years, I hadn’t so much as picked […]

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Tiger + Woods

Tiger + Woods are a DJing/producing partnership from…well, I don’t know where.  Maybe somewhere in the Caribbean.  And evidently, no one knows what they look like.  So I took that mystery and ran with it for the poster.  Why can’t they be an awkward interracial duo from 1973 baseball?

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