May 2009
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“de Portzamparc—a past winner of the Pritzker prize, one of architecture’s...”
– The Hergé museum: Totally Tintin Mr Matins has set me the task of going to this museum and reporting back. Anyone care to join?
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“There is no shortage of anecdotal evidence that the number of Britons in France...”
– Financial Crisis Stings British Living Abroad - NYTimes.com This sentence does not represent the Times’s copy editors’ finest hour.
May 29th
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ListenFreemasons - Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) (ft....
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Original Since 1976 - たんぶらびゅーあー collage & shuffle →
My brain, in pictures.
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Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum →
katiebakes: hellofriend: I’m going to have to restrain myself from blogging every new New Yorker thing that I like every week, but this story about the way doctors behave in the current health care environment, and how those decisions lead to waste (and, in some places, efficiency) is very good. The bad news? Doctors overprscribe and overtest because there’s money in it. The good news is that...
May 27th
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“The work, One Thing Leads to Another - Everything is Connected, was commissioned...”
– TfL: Art on the Underground and Tate Britain to give away 60,000 free prints by acclaimed artist Richard Long
May 27th
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll Teen Wolf meets Carrie in an explosion of red streamers…
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“She wears that bizarrely unattractive soccer mom hair helmet (asymmetrical in...”
– Hank Stuever, on the Start of the Fifth Season of ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8’
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Guardian: Theatre Blog: Imogen Russell Williams... →
For once, reading the comments on a blog post was a reasonably positive and constructive experience.
May 22nd
My 15 Favorite Morrissey Songs →
(via leafblower) Maybe I’ll do my own list. Just for kicks.
May 22nd
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Röyksopp - The Girl and the Robot (ft. Robyn) You will be deleted.
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“Jude has a physical maturity and a young man’s inquiring mind. He’s been...”
– Michael Grandage, on ‘Hamlet’ and Jude Law Can’t wait.
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“We wanted to share the news in this space that we are now legally married.”
– Love Makes a Family OMG ROFAN & KRIP!!!11!!1
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“His jurisprudence as Chief Justice, Roberts said, would be characterized by...”
– Jeffrey Toobin, on John Roberts Still on the first page, blood temperature increasing rapidly… (ETA: yes, it has reached the point where I’m yelling at the screen)
May 18th
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Peter Schjeldahl speaks(!) about Alice Neel (the slideshow’s not really a Tumblr-friendly width, but there you go) (My subscription has lapsed, and these days I can hardly seem to read the weekend Guardian and Observer, so it’s not like I need anything else turning up on my doorstep, but there are times when I miss the New Yorker. I’m contemplating reading this Toobin profile on...
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“…thoughtful, inquisitive sorts tend to think fascism is a bit shit, to be...”
– Charlie Brooker, on the BNP
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Take That star Mark Owen recites Auden’s Funeral Blues for The Nation’s Favourite Love Poem, shown on BBC Two in 1997. Somewhat surreal, from the Poetry Season website.
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“I used to agree with President Obama, that it was better to keep moving and...”
– Maureen Dowd I like when MoDo stops being cutesy and actually writes complete paragraphs.
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