April 2011
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Obey or you'll get divorced and die
From “Britain withdraws Syria’s wedding invite”
The Order of Service was released, showing that Kate will pledge to “love, comfort, honour and keep” William rather than the more traditional vow to “obey” him.
It means the 29-year-old is following in the footsteps of William’s late mother Princess Diana, who later divorced his father Prince Charles.
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Budget Fashionistas: Frustration Rock →
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douglasmartini:
I understand why reviews like this exist, and sometimes they are necessary for breaking down the walls of male-dominated music criticism. But my primary pet-peeve with this sort of mentality is that there are music writers that give a shit about feminism! I think I do a decent job at judging bands with women by the same merits I judge all-male bands by.
Maybe the...
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Boo
Only yesterday I was congratulating myself on the fact that I hadn’t caught a cold in more than a year and was thinking that my immune system deserved some kind of efficiency award given all the viral vectors sniffing and hacking in my vicinity. So naturally a few hours later I developed a throat so sore that swallowing my own saliva required effort. And I only barely got my zombified brain...
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“His singing is a steady baritone recital that drifts in and out of melody like...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones, here
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Congress Removes an Animal From the Endangered... →
kateoplis:
Congress, in a First, Removes an Animal From the Endangered Species List
Congress for the first time is directly intervening in the Endangered Species List and removing an animal from it, establishing a precedent for political influence over the list that has outraged environmental groups. A rider to the Congressional budget measure agreed to last weekend dictates that wolves in...
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“The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the...”
– Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%”
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Lucky Peach →
rocketsandrayguns:
Lucky Peach is a new journal of food writing, published on a quarterly basis by McSweeney’s.
File under: inevitable
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“Increasingly, participation means little more than getting a word in edgewise...”
– Robert Storr on writing for art magazines.
I don’t know if this is true. I only regularly read Frieze and Peter Schjeldahl and occasionally Artforum. But it sounds true given that this sort of thing is happening with increasing frequency elsewhere. Bah.
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“There was just my mum and dad and me and the television. We bought a record...”
– Geoff Dyer, “On being an only child” in The Threepenny Review
Geoff Dyer, aimless, rambling, self-contradictory as ever, waving his signal themes of boredom and mild dissatisfaction. I hate these qualities in any other writer. But Dyer consistently makes stuff like penny-pinching,...
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