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Morteza Momayez (1936-2005) was a Tehran-based graphic designer of posters, covers, logos, and books.  He was the most honored of a large number of exceptionally talented Iranian designers and typographers.  We in the U.S. are sometimes myopic when it comes to non-western design.  International design is equally — if not more — important than what’s done in the US.   We have to learn to open our eyes.

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i went to college and got randomly placed with a roommate.  six years later, she still takes up gigantic portions of my heart.  the escapades the two of us have been on together/ a lifetime of memories. we once had a mouse named molly live with us in our haunted dorm room.  we almost got killed in the Bronx.  we’ve road-tripped from the dirty south all through the west, laughing the entire way. she is the funniest person i know. i could go on and on, but most significantly: life would not be good without her. i would not be good without her.

to you, Deneice, happy birthday.

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ya basta

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‘I will do what I promised.’  He whispered.  ‘No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.’

–C.M.

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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

—Anne Tyler.

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He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean.  I’m so proud of all those things.  But he is my biggest pride.

—John Lennon.

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WATCH ME

indio bound tonight / taking a break from reality

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A volcano erupted beneath a glacier in Iceland this morning.   KABOOM

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