If you're like me, you often think: Broadway musicals are fun, but they aren't nearly gay enough. I wonder how you could camp one up.
Well, you could set it in a gay bar in the Village and feature Lauren Bacall as a fag hag.
From Alan, who loves it when people refer to him as the Barbadian Bacall.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know about many of these. Delighted about Dame Judi.
While the 1990s were about sins of omission, your generation will grapple with the costs associated with sins of commission. It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
This inspiring commencement speech was delivered in 2006 by Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, now a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama.
LONDON (Reuters) - Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.See? See? Vindication!
Cat stowaway makes it home again
From Riley, who keeps his kitty under lock and key.
In the summer of 1985, on a trip to Barcelona, my fun uncle took my cousins and me on a tour of works by native son Antoni Gaudí: Casa Milà, Park Güell, and of course La Sagrada Família. We even ducked down and scurried past the portero to get a look inside Casa Batlló, a private apartment house.
There's one way to experience a Gaudí home without sneaking in, but it'll cost you: Casa Vicens is for sale for €35 million. Story here. Lots of pictures and even floor plans on the official site.
It's a stunning thing to watch. Right now, the various spurts of venom aimed at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama from conservative pundits and politicos are, at best, scattershot and convulsive, with only MSNBC's Chris Matthews proving himself to be a consistent blowhard jackass in his relentless slamming of Hillary by claiming that she only made it this far due to adultery-survivor sympathy. Hey, Chris? 2001 called. It wants its puerile, sexist analysis back. Thank you.
The Post-Gazette posted the court documents on its own Web site; locals took rooting interest in the story’s many subplots (alleged hair-pulling fights with the help, dognapping, and battles royal over a 94-page itemized list of art and objets, from a million-dollar Magritte to an $1,800 set of asparagus tongs), which almost make one pray for Aaron Spelling’s resurrection from the dead.Good times.
When we don't care about correct spelling or usage or expression, isn't it somewhat easier to not care about other written things? How about following the Geneva Convention? The Constitution? Oh yes, it says X, but, really, we can do Y because we know what's important. Doesn't it mean what it says, as written? Don't we have to follow laws? Does an opinion rendered in a "signing statement" mean it's okay to ignore a law that we've just signed, simply because we can and we think we know better?
Education accounts for a lot, but not everything. I've known plenty of otherwise bright people who graduated from "good" schools yet spel appallingly, capitalize random Common Nouns, use dreaded grocer's apostrophe's, and write run-on sentences with willful abandon, the only explanation I can think of is that they were beaten throughout childhood for using periods. You might think they'd pick up some clues by reading newspapers and books, but evidently not. All of which leaves me with very little hope.
My personal favorite is Googleganger, which I'd never seen or heard before. My primary Googleganger is a 61-year-old British MP -- a Tory, the bastard.
From Riley, a cunning linguist himself.
[T]he biggest story in June, as well as the history of the universe, is the release of the Apple iPhone, which, in addition to enabling you to make phone calls, has all kinds of brilliant and innovative features, including AutoFondle, an application that enables the iPhone to fondle itself during those times when you are unable to fondle it manually because you're sleeping or undergoing surgery from wounds you sustained when friends or co-workers finally lost it and beat you senseless to make you shut up about your freaking iPhone already....
In his masterful recap, Dave Barry describes 2007 as "a year that strode boldly into the stall of human events and took a wide stance astride the porcelain bowl of history." Indeed.
