January 2009
48 posts
via “Holocaust love story an insult to the survivors” @ CNN:
However, the danger posed by deniers is not the primary reason why such fabricated stories should be exposed. The events of the Holocaust are horrible in and of themselves. They do not need to be aggrandized or exaggerated to be made to sound any worse than they were. They also do not need to be rendered as joyful love...
December 2008
70 posts
Nancy Wilson, “What Are You Doing New...
Belle and Sebastian, “For the Price of a Cup...
MY WORST NIGHTMARE IS COMING TRUE
Andrew Lloyd Weber, determined to suck out whatever life remains in his oeuvre, is finally doing what I always feared what he would: giving life to a sequel “Phantom” that sounds suspiciously like The Worst Book I’ve Ever Read, “The Phantom of Manhattan.” To really put the nail in the proverbial coffin, he’s casting Butler in the title role, assuring...
GOD
@ Wikipedia’s entry on 459:
Illuminati Ties
The club, through its selective membership application process, is widely rumored to have links to the Illuminati, the Order of The Skull and Bones, the Bilderbergers and New World Order conspiracy groups. It is said that members plot to advance only other members of the club, as is shown by the large number of club members in powerful positions...
Brook Will Retire From Paris Theater - NYT →
The beginning of the end for the director that made Brecht’s Marat/Sade famous to English audiences. I can only hope that one day my professional eulogy accredits my successes to being heavily influenced by Russian mystics.
She loves the gov', the governor of Illinois
This was too good to pass up. (The wink at 0:14 is priceless.)
Shouldn’t all electoral ads be this catchy? (Kennedy’s name is three syllables, but, unfortunately, the cadence is all wrong for recently elected officials.) All TV presidential ads back to 1952 are available here.
Baz Luhrmann's Next Film: 'The Great Gatsby' -... →
I have to agree with the reviewer - the potential for this to go wrong is extraordinary. Plus, as hard as we try, I don’t think Fitzgerald is a writer whose works are meant to be translated into a different medium…
Light Rail Grand Opening →
PHOENICIANS! This critical entry in the annals of Arizonan history must not go unobserved! For all those interested in celebrating the fact that our city is now being legitimized by public transit, come join Rongitsch and me as we breakfast, in true Xavierite fashion, at AJ’s, before we embark upon a party train to Tempe. Cocktail / historical reenactment attire requested.
Sorry for the delay in posts; I just got home on...
“So here is the question.
Except for going to/from the gym, does a...”
– The Sartorialist
Agreed.
A question for Phoenicians
Will there be a First Friday on January 2nd? If so, who’s up for an adventure?
Adventures in Modern Feudalism, con'd
From the Wikipedia entry on the island of Sark:
John Michael Beaumont is the current and twenty-second Seigneur of Sark, inheriting the position in 1974. He lives at La Seigneurie.
The Seigneur of Sark was, prior to the constitutional reforms of 2008, the head of the feudal government of the Isle of Sark (in the case of a woman, the title was Dame). Many of the laws, particularly those related...
“Have no doubt of my admiration and respect for her and my view of her viability,...”
– McCain: I can’t promise to support Palin for president - CNN.com
Do you think he’s knowingly referencing the fact that the country holds his death to be imminent?
“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
In all...”
– Oscar Wilde. This was up on my wall during the party, and came under heated debate - I’m not sure I believe it myself.
“La Foule” - Edith Piaf
Why Edith? I...
Britain: Fine, Keep Your Democracy - NYT →
Feudalism is still around?
Barclay’s hates democracy??
FEUDALISM IS STILL AROUND???
EWL: my mother is big on buying me sexy lingerie
EWL: it's part of our mother-daughter relationship
KRC: she wants to marry you off/encourage you to become a classy hooker?
EWL: little bit of both
KRC: so, Pretty Woman?
EWL: precisely
228. Be careful what you put in writing. You can't...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Carla Bruni - “La dernière minute”
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Detroits Niedergang: Verknöchert, verbohrt,... →
hilarious german news headlines! “Detroit’s Demise: Ossified, Bullheaded, Lost.” what?
Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana... →
I bet the Native Americans who were mythically paid in shells for Manhattan would really love to see these figures.
the results are in!
from the department:
Dear E, The Senior Essay Committee is pleased to approve your prospectus for “Self-Begetting Novels in Postmodern Literature: Nabokov, Lessing, and Rushdie.” We wish you all the best in your project. Sincerely, S.B. Senior Essay Committee, Chair
and from the advisor:
A very strong proposal. I look forward to working on this with you.
Best, ETB
I realize...
des intellectuels bobo? →
the French equivalent of “hipster” is a lot cooler, etymologically:
“Bobo est un mot apparu assez récemment parmi les mots à la mode. C’est la contraction de bourgeois-bohème, qui désigne les personnes de milieux assez aisés, mais sans la morale étroite qui va habituellement avec. On peut les voir comme des soixante-huitards qui ont réussit financièrement.”
...
He beat me at my own game!
“Good clothes open all doors.”
– Thomas Fuller (via theimpossiblecool) (via rulesformyunbornson)
A word to the wise, Serena.
The Filthy Youth - Orange
Fun fact: Chuck Bass...
“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
– Oscar Wilde.
Tess commented today that most grown-ups do not have imagination; I fervently believe they do, but that, given practical concerns, they learn to hide it. Often what we might call “imagination” in our youth is turned into “dissatisfaction” in our age: when we...
Writers' rooms | Books | guardian.co.uk →
My room is slowly becoming immaculate given the number of papers I have hanging over my head. It’s reassuring to see the greats sometimes had the same problem. But, uh, the cheeriness in this last sentence seems a little misplaced:
“This was where, on Friday March 28, 1941, on a cold spring morning, she [V. Woolf] wrote a farewell letter to Leonard before walking down to the River...