International Pwoermd Writing Month starts tomorrow! I’ll be posting pwoermds here and on twitter. For more pwoermdists, check out http://napwowrimo.blogspot.com/ For a description of pwoermd, and other interesting vocabulary, see http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-vocabulary-30.html
Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73 If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it’s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley. …Mr. McEvilley was a...
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