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"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. ![Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg "shepard_fairey_hope_2008")
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When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. 
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October 30, 2009 at 7:19pm
by Mark Willis If you’re striving for that nerdy, campy “adult” costume for Halloween, look no further than Isabella Rossellini’s simple garb in Green Porno, her series of anatomically correct nature films on the Sundance Channel. You could be a sexy spider or praying mantis. Rossellini discussed the project last month on WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook.
Encore: So where’s the squid sex, you ask? It isn’t available as an embed, but you can see it on the Sundance Channel. After you metabolize the environmental message at the end, let me know if you still have a ravenous appetite for calamari.
Café Mouffe opens on Fridays. Please drop by for a listen and a chat. Sometimes the embedded videos don’t work here due to bandwidth constraints, but you’ll always find links to video sources in the notes. Try them. If you’re curious about the Mouffe, here’s the original idea behind it’s creation.
2 Comments
#1. AndyGoes 10.31.2009
Hi Mark,
I’d heard about but had not yet seen la bella Isabella’s costumed performances, thanks for the link.
If you have not already read it, “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex” by Dr. Olivia Judson (http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/0805063323/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257003674&sr=1-1) is the best book I’ve read on the subject.
Cheers,
Andy
#2. Mark Willis 10.31.2009
Thanks, Andy. I’ll look for it. I’m thinking my next Halloween guise may be something out of Krafft-Ebing.
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