Posted in politics on May 29th, 2008
Listening to the opinion going round and around entrenched positions about whether Hillary Clinton would make a good VP, and whether she and Obama individually would come at a joint ticket, has made me wonder again about the role personality type plays in politics and the way people vote.
I’ve never been officially Myers-Brugged, but when […]
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Posted in film, puppetry, puppets on May 22nd, 2008
(photo: Sidat de Silva)
Looking for a Monster is based on an original puppet play written by a thirteen year old boy, Hanus Hachenburg in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943, shortly before his transportation to the Auschwitz Death Camp. In 1999, puppeteer Gary Friedman discovered the play in a Jerusalem archive. It was performed for […]
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Posted in craft, politics, puppetry, puppets on May 21st, 2008
Following on from yesterday’s post about candidate finger puppets made from card, Abbey Hambright has felt finger puppets of Obama for sale.
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Posted in make, politics, puppetry, puppets on May 20th, 2008
FoldUScandidate has patterns for card finger puppets of the three US candidates. You print from a pdf and the assemble as shown. Check out the videos and photos that some people have submitted of their puppets.
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Posted in creatures, miscellaneous on May 10th, 2008
Long ago I read that families tend to rotate only about 10 recipes, even if the ten change from time to time. So I’ve been working on finding ten or so vegetarian main dishes that I really like as a way of increasing the number of vegetarian meals we eat. I decided to put the […]
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