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\x0a Dinosaur roams the hallways at the LA Natural History Museum. Now THAT looks worth a drive up to LA, doesn’t it?\x0a
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“Experimentation should not be confused with mere dilettantism: the quest is serious, the stakes are mortal, the poet’s desire must answer a desire in the reader.”
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- Klappert, from his course…
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\x0a as a designer who is often tempted to librarianism, this pretty much presses all my buttons.\x0a
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\x0a called, “Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner” - it combines so. many. internet. jokes.\x0a
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\x0a looks great, but then again I’m a sucker for samurai movies. Bookmarking for the future netflix queue.\x0a
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\x0a \x0a \x0a \x0a It’s nice to see some of last year’s designs for World Youth Day out in the real world. It’s not like designing bandannas is super exciting - but designing something for
100,000 pilgrims is kind of cool.\x0a
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\x0a Bookmarking this for next month’s trip to New York. I don’t really like computer stores, but it would be fun to see A-L studio products in real life.\x0a
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\x0a Fellow papal historian Anu Guruge has a new book out; I’m looking forward to reading it!\x0a
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\x0a It’s gratifying to know others have similar emotions to mine.\x0a
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