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enjoy the images by Alain Delorme

and worries whether he knows any Christian dog-owners…

In 1983 some VPP (a Very Patient Person, a smoker, no doubt) set the target of recording his or her place in the world. Match art is more often associated with depression era and folk art. How surprising therefore is it to see it used to celebrate the space age? But now, I suspect, it is very much a thing of the past. (P.S. The location of the Giles Weather Station can be found on the bom radar map.) And coincidentally, see this, described as “prison art”! Now is that how the GWS staff saw it? I think not…

Your Iconophile was unsuccessful in his search for clues at the last known address of…

Be warned: if you vote for The Bishop and her Pet Monk the folks at Iconophilia can arrange for some gnomely revenge… (For example, this is by Milan Knizak: Andel, 1989, acrylic on plastic. P.S. if this makes no sense to you, there’s a thread).

(do not read on if you’re not in the mood for distraction) Fact: within the past 24 hours two teenage boys have either lost at school, or forgotten to take to school: a bag containing a pair of shorts, socks, shin guards, soccer boots, a camera, a phone, an iPod, a timetable, and wallet and that all it contains. If anyone has a solution, please advise…

Trust me… go to anonymous works – one of my favourite sites

Puzzled by the necessity to post warnings against rampant ecclesiastics by the good burghers of Freiburg, I was directed to look again at das Freiburger Munster…

Good grief! What were they thinking? (What were they doing?) But don’t be deterred from risking a visit to see for yourself. It is indeed a miracle the Munster survived… If you missed it, see my previous panoramic view in which I remind you that the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt once said that the church’s 116-meter tower “will forever remain the most beautiful spire on earth”.

for those who can’t get enough…

shines light on darkness.  Read the Roth’s latest, see the images by Vanessa Hunter. What is to be done? Blame the Welfare State, apparently… Follow the thread here…