—Robert Louis Stevenson

Moscow, Russia

Best wishes and congratulations(!) to my longtime friend — Александра Санькова (Alexandra Sankova), Director of the new Moscow Design Museum — re: the opening on Thursday, 29 November 2012, of their first exhibition: SOVIET DESIGN 1950 – 1980

The Moscow Design Museum is the first and only museum institution dedicated to the discipline of design in Rusia—a “live, changing, mobile space… to collect, promote, popularise, classify, and initiate.”

Learn more here.

—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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There’s less than a week left in Movember!

And Canada is once again leading the world in this awesome, quirky, follicly-driven global fundraiser to fight prostate cancer… with over $24 million raised so far this month.

I have grown one hell of a lot of facial hair over the past four-plus decades (as anyone who knows me can attest to) and this year I’m once again doing my “stiff-upper-lip” bit for this very important cause… please consider making a donation through me or one of over a million fellow Mo-Bros or Mo-Sistas around the world…

Thanks in advance…
here’s a big hug, along with
a big old scratchy smooch!

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Barbara Kruger‘s Op-Art piece in today’s New York Times is very apropos.

(aka ‘Black Friday’ in the USA)

Buy Nothing Day — participate by not participating.

A “bumper-sticker quotable” from my cousin, The Honourable Madam Justice Bonnie R. Warkentin… (-:

(somewhere in the UK)

“An eccentric side project born out of too many sleepless nights at the Royal College of Art and a homesickness for the rugged Highlands. Bicycle Taxidermy first began on a couple of memento mori for my father’s once prized but long discarded mountain and road bikes…”

—Robert Louis Stevenson (a diptych)

(Can you tell that I have become re-enamored with RLS? I came to love his books half a century ago…).