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When the Roo Dog went missing, one of the places I posted LOST DOG notices was on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Craigslist. After discovering later that the little guy had been hit by a car, I posted the news in the same sections and, later, added a link to the Roo Dog's obituary. While I had received a couple of e-mails here and there from people on Craigslist, suggesting things I could do, I was unprepared for an outpouring of 34 e-mails.  Saying goodbye to the Roo Dog Nigel Parry, Monday, May 5th, 2008 
"How do you begin to process loss? One of my closest friends, a freakish-looking small red dog, was run over by a car within minutes after escaping from my backyard on April 25th, 2008. The squirrels will miss him. A lot of people will miss him." In this article, a retrospective of the impact of a freakish, small red dog that lived for three years and eight months with Nigel Parry. Art: "Australian Camouflage" Artist: Nigel Parry, Thursday, April 24th, 2008 
Australian Camouflage is a simple piece that speaks of the birth of Australia as a penal colony by Britain in 1788, 220 years ago. Out of sight and out of mind, the prisoners shipped to Australia represented a "camouflaging" of both Britain's incarceration policy and its "undesirables" at a considerable cost to the indigenous Australian population. Snapshots: Snow in Uptown: Before & After Nigel Parry, Friday, March 21st, 2008 
Just as it seemed that all the snow was about to melt after the longest, coldest winter I've ever spent in Minnesota, my friend Duncan rang me yesterday to suggest we took advantage of the sunny weather and take the dogs out to the park before the sky dumped another five inches of snow on us. Yesterday I took some "before" photos of the place I'm living, with today providing the "after" photos. All images taken with a Motorola V3.x cameraphone, still. Art: "The Face He Never Forgot" Artist: Suzanne Klotz, Friday, December 28th, 2007 
Suzanne Klotz creates art that engages the viewer on visual, emotional and intellectual levels and, upon investigation, the content expands. The work addresses, typically in an ironic way, contemporary attitudes towards gender roles, marriage, materialism, global, social and economic disparity, and the invisible lines that define borders. Her art appears in the Smithsonian and other major galleries in the US and beyond. Snapshots: EI graffiti on Israel's West Bank Barrier Anonymous, Thursday, December 27th, 2007 
A new Internet project, www.sendamessage.nl, allows users from around the world to pay Palestinians to paint messages on Israel's West Bank Barrier for €30 ($44). Intended as an awareness-raising and re-appropriation project, www.sendamessage.nl has been very successful, gained international media coverage, and gave the founders of the Electronic Intifada a rather unusual Christmas present. Snapshots: End of Summer in the Midwest Nigel Parry, Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 
It had to happen. Winter weather typically decends on the Midwest in an unexpected way, with sudden cold fronts. Lows for the next three days in Saint Paul, Minnesota are freezing or under. Time to get out the ugly but practical clothes, stuff a couple of ferrets down your trousers, shack up in bed with a loved human (or animal), and get ready for 5 months of whining from everyone... Here's the last of the summer, as seen from the Midwest. |
      
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