Archive for January, 2010

The King Comes to Russia

  • January 22nd, 2010
  • BY: Grant Slater
No, the monarchist old ladies protesting on Tverskaya Street haven't won their battle to bring back the Tsar…

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Creativity Rules

  • January 22nd, 2010
  • BY: Grant Slater
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A Word on the Design

  • January 20th, 2010
  • BY: Grant Slater

The Man Himself

Both this blog and my portfolio site owe a lot to Derek Moore at Simplify Advance Studio. This project has floated around in various forms – mostly in my head – for about two years now, but this man brought the vision to life. For this project, he went above and beyond. Thanks Derek!

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A Short Telegram: Manifesto

  • January 20th, 2010
  • BY: Grant Slater

George Kennan is thinking deeply about a policy framework for amusing you.

The reasoning behind this blog is so intricate, so delicate, so self-indulgent, that I cannot compress answers into a single brief message without yielding to what I feel would be a dangerous degree of over-simplification.

I hope, therefore, reader will bear with me if I submit an answer to this question in two parts while quoting from source of this blog’s title out-of-context in subjects roughly as follows:

1) Basic features of this blog

2) Background of blog

Unlike telegraphic channels, Internet offers unlimited space and cannot be burdened by wind-baggery. Therefore, I do not apologize in advance for questions involved of questionable importance.

Part 1: Basic Features of The Long Telgram (LT), as Put Forward by Its Author

Are as follows:

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