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  • 2012-05-14Rubens ThumbnailThe milk of human kindness! As in literal milk. Of kindness.

    So you know that Time cover everyone’s talking about of the breastfeeding mom? It ain’t got nothing on Rubens, Caravaggio, Memling and a bunch of other artists. Enter the weird world of breastfeeding art, where not all the breastfeed-ees are babies.

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  • I can't overstate how badly I need new glasses or how little I want to get them. I fear the word "bifocals" is in my future. 2 days ago
  • .@altonbrown I've had to go gluten-free, and the very word makes me weep. *sobs* biscuits! *sobs* 2 days ago
  • .@rachelcw Excellent plan. If nothing else, you could enjoy listening to all the ways people tried to pronounce it. "Ms. Koolhaaaaaaas?" 2 days ago
  • I wondered when Sedaris would come under scrutiny after the Daisey debacle on This American Life: http://t.co/Jtb7IVHQ 2 days ago
  • RT @weegee: "How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet" Brilliantly written, really sad story. http://t.co/K1GOuASg (via @powazek). 3 days ago
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"Grant Wood's 'American Gothic'" No American artwork has been parodied more than American Gothic. Zombies, dogs, Beavis and Butthead, the Muppets, Lego figures, and even Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton have taken a turn with the pitchfork. But the painting itself is no joke--American Gothic is as recognizable as the Mona Lisa and The Scream. mental_floss, Jan/Feb 2012.

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What People Are Saying

“This is one of those books you buy to give to someone else and decide to keep for yourself.”
- Krys Boyd, Host of KERA 90.1’s Think!, on Secret Lives of Great Artists

“Lunday writes without meanness. Light, tight and bright. As she says, these guys are still the sources of some of the world’s most beautiful music. If there’s a takeaway from the whole thing it’s the all-too-human spectacle of the travails of the artistic spirit trying to get on in a workaday world.”
– From the Oregon Mail Tribune, on
Secret Lives of Great Composers

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