... weird stuff I write for the blog internship? Well today I pitched a spin on how Disney is re-imagining Mickey Mouse. Now I have to come up with Melrose Place-style speculations about re-imagined stories and personalities ... paternity suits over his growing brood of bizarre-looking bastard offspring. See? It's easy! Jessica's take on the re-imagining of Disney characters can be found here.

Q. What shoes can you not walk backwards in? A. Thongs (aka flip flops) Very much looking forward to reading a new book by Caroline Knowles called Global imagining: Shoes and social fabrics in motion. Caroline Knowles is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and has taken an objective biography tracing the flip flop trail from production to consumption. According to ...

Imagining Purgatory By Jim Miles I stand/sit/lay in a place-time that is real but incomprehensible. As I exist there I can see my life unfolding, a series of vignettes clear and distinct. I look at one and see the memory of hate or lust; forgiven but applied to one who accepts the punishment for all of us. I see that one, “like a Son of Man” accept the blow of my hatred, my uncharitable acts ...

<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Imagining somthing which is not likely to happen is a waste of time and energy. <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nevertheless It's a joy to Imagine ! <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love my bottomless ...

... ;> Now can we please stop with the bowing and scraping to other cultures? These lies about France, or anywhere else, are embarrassing in this modern age - we Americans, especially, should know better, considering how well-connected we are. We look like fools</font color="#FF0000"> for insisting on imagining this stuff about our inferiority to others. Americans bow to no one.

Hot Topic is pleased to join with Scoop and Celsias in launching a new series of articles with the theme of Imagining 2020. We want New Zealanders, as Scoop co-founder Alastair Thompson explains in this introductory post, to imagine what a low carbon future might be like: The idea is to provide a platform for a