I saw
Leonid and Friends live at an industry showcase last fall in Nashville and thought of them while reading
Elif Batuman’s essay about the Ice House in Russia, based on something that some weird powerful actual Russians did a long time ago.
In 1740, Peter the Great’s niece, the Empress Anna Ioannovna, commissioned a fully furnished palace made entirely of ice, the world’s first piece of purely aesthetic ice architecture.Like this:
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Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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