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Entries from July 2009

did stanley kubrick fake the moon landing?

July 30th, 2009 · 12 Comments

Probably not. But tell that to this guy.
Jay Weidner at Reality Sandwich compares the cinematic style of Stanley Kubrick’s work to the famous moon landing footage, and says he’s convinced beyond any doubt that Kubrick was enlisted to show up the Russians, NASA stole flying saucer technology from the Nazis, and JFK was assassinated […]

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Tags: art · crazy · curio · history · movies/tv/video · opinion · photography · pop culture · space · usa

back in the 514 — and tunisia/lebanon photos

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments

So I got back to Montreal last Sunday and I’ve been a little delinquent in the posting department — both re: the posts from Lebanon that you’ve come to expect when I’m travelling, and re: the regular neat-o news and whatnot that you’ve come to expect when I’m home. I expect that next week […]

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Tags: dispatches · dispatches from lebanon · dispatches from tunisia · photography · writing

into the desert (for real this time)

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments

June 26
We meet up again with Hafsa and Zainab, who are dressed even more liberally than before — who cross the road with us to an another touristy shop, and through a mixture of browbeating and flirtation, haggle the poor confused shopkeeper down to about a fifth of his asking price for our faux-bijoux […]

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Tags: dispatches · dispatches from tunisia · travel · writing