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The Independant on the IMF

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Link of the day

Published: 10 June 2011

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A rather acid take on the IMF that compares the actions of Dominique Strauss-Kahn to the actions of the IMF as a whole.

Needless to say, Dominique Strauss-Kahn comes off far less guilty. Or at least sympathetic - it is, after all, his organizations mandate.

Link: The Independant on the IMF

Accidental Art Star

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 09 June 2011

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Not, of course, in any way denigrating the penguin (which is expertly rendered) - but shouldn't this tell us something about the current state of affairs in the art world?

Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/865515-leilah-poulain-7-is-accidental-art-star-as-her-work-gets-shown-in-saatchi-gallery 

Numastic

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Dreams

Published: 08 June 2011

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She's late, the salad girl, I didn't think she was working tonight. But she's brought with her an armful of coins to show me, I can't remember the conversation we must have had, old US nickels struck on square plates, "proofs", another that when I turn over I recognize a Philadelphia Shilling, it has the slogan "Go Away" across the top, and I'm asking her about the coins and the logo and she's talking unintelligibly, handing me framed coins and others for me to look at, always the mumbled explanation...