Blogging from the dead

George Orwell has been blogging from his grave.

Unaccustomed Earth

I recently finished Unaccustomed Earth by Juhmpa Lahiri and was captured by the eight stories she has put together in this book. Here's a review in the NY Times. The review seemed to have even made it better in retrospect.

"Lahiri handles her characters without leaving any fingerprints. She allows them to grow as if unguided, as if she were accompanying them rather than training them through the espalier of her narration. Reading her stories is like watching time-lapse nature videos of different plants, each with its own inherent growth cycle, breaking through the soil, spreading into bloom or collapsing back to earth."

inflatable art

Probably one of the more unique pieces I've heard of escaping from a museum...

Baacode

Now it may be a while before I can afford even one garment from this company (maybe I'll get one of their "Mogul Hats"), but a purchase of Icebreaker clothes seem to have a pretty unique bonus. Apparently when you buy something, this piece comes with a particular "Baacode," Once you have that, you can type it in on their website and follow your garment all the way to which sheep the cotton came from. I'll explore more once I save my pennies for that sweet hat.