December 2009
37 posts
On Friday night, the final visitors came to the Royal Academy of Art in London...
– Charlotte Higgins: The great Anish Kapoor clean-up
America's Got The X Factor (Maybe) →
Calls to Virgin Media (pt 1 in what could be quite... →
Broken Britain at its finest.
As Web Challenges French Leaders, They Push Back -... →
Here’s a line you rarely hear: ‘The Internet is a danger for democracy’. And yet, it’s the apparent attitude of the French political class struggling with an unwillingness to acknowledge their fragility in the face of their own ‘macaca’ moments.
1. The Sacred Made Real National Gallery, London
2. Ed Ruscha Hayward Gallery,...
– The Observer: Laura Cumming: 2009 in review: Art
Maybe I need to go back and look at it again, but I reckon putting the Ruscha retrospective in the company of the sublime Sacred Made Real and Mark Wallinger’s profound Russian Linesman does both those shows a disservice.
Frankie & the Heartstrings - Fragile
tylercoates:
I emailed the professor who is teaching my “Narrative Structures” course in the Winter term to see what books I have to read (the bookstore still does not list them and I am impatient). He confessed that he hadn’t finalized the list yet, but gave me four definite titles:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Gilead by...
One condition of him agreeing to an interview was that there were to be no...
– Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes - Telegraph
What a sentence.
Blu Cantrell - Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)
I had completely forgotten about this song until it ended up on Billboard’s one-hit wonders of the decade list. But, seriously, there is SO MUCH about this video that’s amazing. I think my favourite bit when Ms Cantrell’s posse do a little fists-in-the-air dance in the back seat. If you were in Blu’s crew, wouldn’t you?!
Feminist books for five-year-olds | Life and style... →
I am all about the content of this article.
However, what I’m not all about is the author’s dye job. No woman, feminist or no, needs hair like that. Princess Smartypants would know better.
A More Perfect Union - NYTimes.com →
This is some kinda Modern Love.
kfan:
mootpoint:
lindsayrobertson:
“If it wouldn’t enrage my wife, I’d get Amy Grant’s face tattooed on my bicep, because last year her music saved me from the depths of hopelessness. You know?”
- John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats on Vulture today. (Related: tomorrow night Bell House omg!)
In my mind there is a Kate Beaton drawing of Lalitree with her eyes wild while “Baby, Baby”...
BBC - Doctor Who - Adventure Calendar →
Let the countdown begin.
November 2009
37 posts
The New Yorker: Platon: Photographs of World... →
This portfolio is stunning, and the voiced captions are charming. Except the one about Mugabe, which is breath-takingly candid.
I love the photo of Cristina Fernández. Also of Qaddafi. And isn’t it remarkable that Gordon Brown is smiling?