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Vlad Zi

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My Interests

Words from the Mandarin Chinese root "YA ZI", meaning "Duck":

yazilicious
reyazified
yazimetrically
playazine
yazinopsis
A Alexander, Christopher
Ali, Muhammad
Anarchism
Arbus, Diane
Architecture
Astral Weeks
Australian Rules Football
Avedon, Richard
B Barragan, Luis
Baroque, The
Big Band
Blair Witch Project, The
Bluegrass and Blues
Boogie-woogie
Brandenburgs, The
Brooks, Louise
Brown, Blair
Brown, James
Brubeck, Dave
Burns, Ken
C California Ãœber Alles
Celebrity Gossip
Changing of the Guards
Chick Flix
Chomsky, Noam
Chuck D
Close, Chuck
Colbert Report, The
Coltrane, John
Conspiracy Theories
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Cornell, Joseph
Cosmology
Creep
Cybernetics
D Da Vinci, Leonardo
Daily Show, The
Dale, Dick
Decq, Odile
Derby County F.C.
Drag Racing
Duany Plater-Zyberk
Ducks and Related Waterfowl
E Eames, Charles and Ray
Edwards, Wallace
Einstein, Albert
Eliot, T. S.
Ellington, Duke
Ellison, Harlan
e-Culture
Epistemology
Etiquette
Existentialism
F Fell In Love With A Girl
Fellini, Federico
Feynman, Richard P.
Flirting, The lost art of
Fosse, Bob
Foster, Sir Norman
Four Seasons, The
Fractals
Freckles
G Gaia
Gamelan
Gaultier, Jean-Paul
Gazpacho, diced not blended
Ginsberg, Allen
Glass, Philip
Group of Seven, The
H Hadid, Zaha
Haiku
Harley Davidson
Highlife
Hildegard von Bingen
Hitchens, Christopher
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hypnosis
I Ibn Battuta
Ibn Rushd
Iconoclasm
Impressionism
Irreverance
J Jazz
J******
Jeszcze Polska nie zginela...
Johns, Jasper
Johnson, Robert
Jokerman
K K9s
Kinbaku-bi
Kitagawara, Atsushi
Kitsche
Kosinski, Jerzy
L Lane, Billy
Languages and Linguistics
Libertarianism
Linklater, Richard
Little Black Dress, The
Lombard, Carole
London Calling
Loos, Anita
Love, conquering all!
M Mapplethorpe, Robert
mattharding2718
McLuhan, Marshall
McQueen, Alexander
Meerkats
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Miller, Jonathan
Minimalism
Mockbee, Sam
Monty Python
Morris, Errol
Mozart, W. Amadeus
Murphy, Sara and Gerald
My Sharona
My So-Called Life
N Negroponte, Nicholas
Neumann, Balthazar
Nevelson, Louise
New Urbanism, The
Niles, Edward R.
Norris Facts, Chuck
O Onomatopoeia
Open Platforms
P Paglia, Camille
Paris, rive gauche
Parker, Dorothy
Pattern Language, A
Patton, Charley
Penn, Irving
Peters, Tom
Petrosian, Tigran
Pollock, Jackson
Porter, Cole
Prada, Miuccia
Psychedelics
Punk
Pynchon, Thomas
Q Quantum Physics
Quarks
R Reich, Steve
Renoir, Jean
Rhapsody in Blue
Rock n Roll, Baby!!!
Rocky Top
Rogers, Sir Richard
Rudolph, Paul
S Sailing the Caribbean
Sanskrit
Sax, Tenor
shy-too-shy
Silbo Gomero
Sing Sing Sing
Situational Ethics
Sloan Great Wall, The
St-Laurent, Yves
Symbiosis
Synthesis
T Tal, Mikhail
Tall Ships
Tango!!!
Trans-Siberian Railway
Traveling Light
TreeHugger Inc.
U Unterberger, Richie
V Varanasi
Velikovski, Immanuel
Venice
Vermeer, Johannes
Vertov, Dziga
Vichyssoise
Vidal, Gore
Vierzehnheilingen
Vincent Black Shadow
Vuitton, Louis
W Wagnerian Opera
Walker Landscapes, Peter
War Game, The
Weld, Tuesday
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Billy
Winding Country Roads
Winnie the Pooh
Wormhole, The
X X-Files, The
Y yada yada yada
Yunus, Muhammad
Z Zgrabnosc
Zheng He
Zimmerman, Robert
Zinn, Howard
ZNet
Zydeco

I'd like to meet:



Jodi

J******

c o n n i e

Shye

Zenny's of Hollywood

Urban Deva

David Leeson

Renee

Jack

Danae

JWfH

Sara

Ragdollie

Tsappora

South of Strange

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My Blog

SHYE

Shye ("Top Friends", top row, right hand portrait) - literate, sophisticated, hilarious and beautiful - is one of my best online friends ever. She's also one of my favorite artists. Specializing in nu...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:56:00 PST

PRAISING PIGLET, POOHS PRISSY PALADIN

Everyone knows that Piglet is the real hero of A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" stories. Supposedly that's because he's kind and gentle and generous and brave in spite of himself... but waitaminute! Wh...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:06:00 PST

MY NOMINEE FOR THE GREATEST LITERARY PASSAGE EVER

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:17:00 PST

HERES THE CASE FOR "GIRL"

From the novel, "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects," by Aurelie Sheehan, the following seemingly throwaway dialogue between "Rex" and "Winona" comes fiendishly close to defining a fully realiz...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:23:00 PST

BLUEPRINTS FOR A HOUSE DESIGNED FOR JENNIPOOH

It shall nestle into the welcoming, protective embrace of the earth, like that dream you had of coming home to your lover's gentle and familiar arms. A stream will flow and splash through each one of ...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:32:00 PST

HOLDING HANDS

The first time she said she loved me the Hale Bopp comet was in the sky, casting off its mantle of icy crystals, which exploded high above us with the brilliance of Hiroshima's first millisecond....
Posted by Vlad Zi on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:57:00 PST

GETTING TAGGED NOW BY READERS WHO ARENT EVEN FRIENDS...

I Live in a sea of insatiable curiosity.I Work hard to appear cynical. I don't believe I succeed.I Talk a good game. In this world, as often as not "glib" works.I Wish upon stars... in a metaphorical ...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:35:00 PST

TEN OCCASIONS WHEN I WISHED YOU WERE HERE

Squatting in the disreputably grimy alley behind the Guggenheim Museum, junked up on a random fistful of uppers slipped to me by My Man Maurice, shooting losing craps with the laughing black limo dri...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:33:00 PST

TAGGED THIS EVENING, I DECIDED TO WRITE A 15 MINUTE SPEED BLOG...

*ahem*   *shuffles feet*   My name is YA ZI, and I'm addicted to MySpace.   When I first joined (over three years ago) I was totally anal about sharing any personal information.  ...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

WHO CHAMPIONS FREE ENTERPRISE?

In the late 80s, a Soviet economic Commissar, visiting London's teeming and efficient main vegetable market, noted that it invariably contrived to produce what London's consumers wanted and needed, wh...
Posted by Vlad Zi on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:40:00 PST