Posts tagged as Things People Write
Germans Like Fake Meat
"He goes on about the ersatz food in Germany. He describes 'meat made of pressed rice boiled in mutton fat (and finished off with a fake bone made of wood); tobacco made of dried roots and dried potato peel; shoes soled with wood.' There are, he notes, '837 registered meat substitutes permissible in the production of sausages, 511 registered coffee substitutes.'” READ MORE
24 Working Titles R. Kelly Scrapped Before Settling On The Final Name For His New Book
1. Soul Weevil READ MORE
Armadillos Are Illegal To Sell In Texas And Extraordinarily Well Endowed
“I’m telling you the law. It’s illegal to sell a living armadillo. By statute. Dead armadillos you can sell parts of them. Make a curio of a little armadillo on his back drinking a bottle of beer.” READ MORE
Man Finishes Job
"By point of context, though, an aisle orchestra seat at the Metropolitan Opera for Donizetti’s 'L’Elisir d’Amore' runs $330, also excluding wine." READ MORE
On Races To The Bottom
Today in Truth: "The problem with a race to the bottom is that everybody wins it."
David Brooks Should Watch This New Video For Beirut's "Santa Fe"
"In most times and in most places, the group was seen to be the essential moral unit. A shared religion defined rules and practices. Cultures structured people’s imaginations and imposed moral disciplines. But now more people are led to assume that the free-floating individual is the essential moral unit. Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now it’s thought of as something that emerges in the privacy of your own heart." READ MORE
Don't Anyone Go On A Reality TV Show
"As fans know, 'Real Housewives,' with Mr. Armstrong’s collaboration, skillfully locked him into the role of an unstable killjoy. He was an intriguing character to watch, but no doubt a hard character to embody—or live with. Indeed, Taylor, his wife of six years, filed for divorce in July. Shortly before he died, Mr. Armstrong told reporters and friends that his myriad problems—financial, marital and personal—were aggravated, if not caused, by the show. This is not hard to see. He was playing a dour jerk and bankrolling the production that was meant to prop up his wife with his dwindling fortune. No wonder his finances and marriage fell apart." READ MORE
On Being A Camera And Sharing Memories That Rival Berlin In The '30s
"The point being, to understand Isherwood is to understand his infatuation with liars, which—returning to the camera metaphor—I think makes it reasonable to ask whether he himself was lying, or at least half-lying in a way he could find almost believable." READ MORE
Reduced To Wishing We Were A Corporatocracy
"The grim truth is that, at this point, we’d be better off if the House Republicans really were the handmaidens of corporate America, rather than ideologues who prefer crisis to compromise."
Amy Winehouse: An Observation
"A gift to gossip writers, Winehouse was nonetheless famous for actually being good at something. She was retro even in her celebrity; one of the most exposed in a culture of unprecedented over-exposure, she still appeared mysterious, as if she was disguised as herself.... She looked as if everything had already happened to her."
