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WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face among a crowd of stars.

-- Yeats

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You know holiday shopping is offensive and wasteful. You know Christmas "wish lists" and "gift exchanges" degrade the concept of giving. You know Christmas marketing is a scam, benefiting manufacturers, stores, and huge corporations, while driving individuals into debt. You know this annual consumer frenzy wreaks havoc on the environment, filling landfills with useless packaging and discarded gifts.

Yet, every year, you cave in and go shopping.

The relentless onslaught of advertising exerts constant pressure. So do the unified bleatings of herds of shoppers, who call you "Scrooge" if you fail to enthusiastically join their ritual orgy of consumption. Friends and family needle you with gift requests, store windows beckon with shiny colorful packages, the same "classic" holiday jingles are piped constantly through every speaker in town.

How can you resist?

Join the Christmas Resistance Movement!

Sucesso de público em 2005, a mostra de Arte, Artesanato e Moda de R$ 1 a R$ 100 volta ao Centro Cultural Bernardo Mascarenhas, nesta semana, oferecendo ao público uma série de opções para presentes que aliam bom gosto, qualidade e preço acessível.

Os estandes estarão abertos para visitação de terça a sexta-feira, das 13h às 19h, e no sábado e domingo, das 10h às 16h.

Torçam pra eu vender vários quadros!

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right moment...
But to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment...

...on December 25th I find under my Christmas Tree:

1. A Dell Precision 690 workstation, with two dual core Woodcrest (Xeon 5100) CPUs, 32GB RAM and two 24" Eizo FlexScan LCDs

or...

2. A Hasselblad H3D, with 48mm full-frame sensor (39 Megapixel)

or...

3. Catherine Zeta-Jones

you take:

bauhaus + joy division + interpol + sisters of mercy

and you have something like this and this.

Sometimes I love her deeply and want our relationship to last
Sometimes I want her to be eaten by a pack of enraged werewolves