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Monthly Archives: February 2012
High Noon Urchins
Today’s theme: Leap Year. Sarah Geo Beth Stay tuned for next week’s theme!
Posted in Collaborative, High Noon Urchins
Tagged 2012, Beth, Geo, High Noon Urchins, leap year, Margaret, Sarah
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That’s What He Said
This is not about women. -U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on birth control
On ‘Eclecticising’
By Geo Ong We all have a type. Art lovers all have artistic sensibilities, and more often than not, art lovers will naturally gravitate toward them. In certain ways, in art as much as in life, you can’t really control … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artistic immortality, artistic sensibilities, artistic tastes, artists, discovery, eclecticising, new york city, writers
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Kill the Wolves, Save the Tar Sands
By Margaret Hedderman In 1935, Australia’s Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations released over 100 fat and knobbly cane toads into Northern Queensland as a cure-all solution to the cane beetle infestation that was decimating sugar crops. Today, the large, South American toad … Continue reading
3rd Annual Urchie Award Nominations, Part 2
Briton of the Year Daniel Radcliffe Carey Mulligan Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge Best Bookstore City Lights, San Francisco Greenlight Bookstore, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Film & Television, The Urchies, Travel, Urchin Eats
Tagged atlas cafe new york, best bookstore, best high noon picture, Best Restaurant, best television show, birds of a feather, bookstore, Briton of the Year, canada, carey mulligan, catherine middleton, city lights bookstore, cool customer, daniel radcliffe, DIY, downton abbey, greenlight, New Zealand, northshire bookstore, perfect couples, peru, Taos Pizza Outback, the chicago diner, The Daily Show, urchin travel destination of the year
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3rd Annual Urchie Award Nominations, Part 1
As actors, writers, politicians, and musicians everywhere anxiously stare at their phones hoping for calls from their agents, we’re here to announce the 2012 Urchie Award Nominees. In a year when political and environmental stakes were higher than ever, artists … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Film & Television, Literature, Music, The Urchies, Travel, Urchin Eats
Tagged a separation, armie hammer, artist of the year, atlas cafe new york city, berenice bejo, Best Actress, best bookstore, Best Restaurant, best television show, Book of the Year, Briton of the Year, brooklyn, canada, carey mulligan, catherine middleton, Citizens of London, city lights, daniel radcliffe, Destination of the Year, dilettante, downton abbey, elizabeth warren, film of the year, gary oldman, green in the new red, greenlight bookstore, j. edgar, joan didion, john steinbeck, lonely boy, lynne olson, Meryl Streep, New Zealand, nicki minaj, northshire bookstore, Octavia Spencer, perfect couples, peru, Peter Jon Lindberg, peyman moadi, philippe cousteau, portugal. the man, san francisco, st vincente, super bass, Taos Pizza Outback, the artist, the black keys, the chicago diner, The Daily Show, The Help, The Iron Lady, tinker tailor soldier spy, travels with charley, tune-yards, Will Potter, writer of the year
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We’re Ardent and Astray, Not Apathetic
By Gina Williams [Gina Williams is a guest writer for the Urchin Movement. In the following article, she discusses current problems facing the U.S. Gina also writes about motorcycle accidents.] We belong to a generation viewed by the world as … Continue reading
The Best of Literary Romance
Well, maybe not the best, but for sure our top picks. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, The Urchins are taking a look back at our favourite literary romances of all time. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes When American poet … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged edith wharton, sylvia plath, Ted Hughes, the age of innocence
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High Noon Urchins
Today’s theme: You? Sarah Margaret Geo Check back for the announcement of next week’s high noon theme!
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, High Noon Urchins
Tagged cookies, Geo Ong, margaret hedderman, morning, sales, sarah jost, twilight zone, waking up, you?
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That’s What He Said
Liechtenstein’s last military engagement was in 1866, when it sent eighty men to fight against the Italians. Nobody was killed. In fact—you’re going to like this—they came back with 81 men because they had made a friend along the way. … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged Bill Bryson, books, Europe, liechtenstein, military, Neither Here nor There, Travel, War!
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