Sunday Paper: New-Year Edition

Suburban Chicago, January 1962. Mom's in the Master Bedroom.

Sunday Paper: Los Angeles Edition

Los Angeles, California, 1987. Mr. Irene and his paternal Uncle, Ignas, catch up on the news.

"Little Spot"

Demytė wins the annual "prettiest goat" pageant.

Twitter shuts down Putin-parody account.

" "All of the world's repressive regimes are aware that spontaneous, organic protests have been organized through Twitter. (...) If a company like Twitter can be told 'kill these accounts now' and they do it, whose side are they on?" "

Ducks in a Row

The scene in a South African vineyard.

My alma mater is in the news.

A Newsweek article about Trinity High School.

Thanks to my classmate Nora for pointing this article out to me.

Tensions in the Baltic

Kaliningrad.

Stork Cam

Live feed from a nest in Lithuania.

Soviet Life

In Lithuania.

A View of the Displaced Persons Camps

From the "No Home to Go To" Exhibit.

Why we don't know much about Stalin.

"Americans might be less receptive because of our own mythology of the Second World War. Anything that detracts from that simplified portrait is often unwelcome. Tales of Nazi horrors inflate the American experience and place American efforts front and center. Discussion of the central role of the Soviet Union, and its 20 million dead, deflates American experience and pushes American efforts to the margins."

Ball "Boys"

Awww.

Food Art

Mostly crocheted, not "knitted."

An Assessment

Lithuania's President considers Putin.

Interview with a Knitter

On Wisconsin Public Radio.

"The report recommends that all women diagnosed with ovarian cancer have genetic testing to help map treatment decisions. Close relatives of women with the disease also should be tested."

A new report by the Institute of Medicine.

"How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement."

A TED Talk.

CoyoteVest ...

... Pet Body Armor.

Dog Show

We were cheering Rumor, the German Shepherd from Edgerton, Wisconsin. But Dario touched our hearts.

"And, there are simply too many notes."

Evidence emerges that Mozart and Salieri collaborated.