January 2009
72 posts
Time Out London theatre editor Jane Edwards, television editor Emma Perry, nightlife editor Dave Swindells and deputy film editor Wally Hammond have taken voluntary redundancy.
Ouch. A very honest journo announcement - usually it’s people talking about freelancing.
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
(via everybodycares) (via everything is art)
WatchBlago: “When some of that language was used, there were no women on the phone.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
– Ray Bradbury
This has such a lovely rhythm to it.
“I’m the one who had to take the Silkwood shower this morning!”
– Jenna, 30 Rock
Hahaha this is so bitter! Damn you, Jean-Claude...
JCVD isn’t coming :-( we’re still showing the film though
Dear all,
It seems the Muscles from Bruscles is all braun and no brains, the hulking lump of an OAP messed up his diary and is no longer coming to the UK to launch his film JCVD! We sincerely apollogise to all the eager customers...
“One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the...”
– BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: “Change has come to whitehouse.gov” - the first blog post (via soupsoup) (via tanya77)
Wowzers. This is going to be fun to watch! Do non-Americans get to join in the fun? I’m guessing no, probably…
“Tony Blair was both Britain’s Obama, transforming its politics, and Britain’s...”
– Interesting New York Magazine profile on Tony Blair, dressed - the journalist helpfully tells us - in gray T-shirt, blazer, and acid-washed jeans. (via somethingchanged)
What a fascinating journalistic technique - undermining Blair with this small, horrifying fashion detail which may or may not be...
Berlinal 2009: The Jury (Tildaaaaaaaaaa!)
Berlinale 2009: International Jury
The International Jury, presided over by Tilda Swinton, will decide who is to take home the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears and the Alfred Bauer Prize in the Competition of the Berlinale 2009.
The other members of the Jury are Spanish director Isabel Coixet, director Gaston Kaboré (Burkina Faso), Swedish best-selling author Henning Mankell, director...
The Future of Journalism
From today’s Gorkana mailout:
Chiconomise.com Since launching her weekly Chiconomise newsletter, Michelle Dewberry, a former winner of BBC’s The Apprentice is developing the site into a money saving and lifestyle portal aimed at savvy women who want to live stylishly for less. The portal will feature an exciting daily product sale, forums, discounts and advice. Chiconomise.com will be...
I’m always angry when I’m dying
At the last moment he cried out angrily because we wouldn’t let him have a bath. When my mother protested he said: ‘I’m always angry when I’m dying.’
I don’t know if it was something he had prepared for a long time, but those were the last words I heard him say. I held the oxygen mask over his face until he no longer had need of it.
After my father died I slept for two days without...
“On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back, leaving him in a wheelchair for the inauguration.”
"First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review" →
A President’s Future
The president of the law review usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama said he planned to spend two or three years in private law practice and then return to Chicago to re-enter community work, either in politics or in local organizing.
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10 Presidential Perks →
apsies:
emilyelisabeth:
“Special Presidential food perks: free soda from both Coke and Pepsi in fridges all over the White House, M&Ms in boxes with the Presidential Seal on the outside, and lots of other free snacks from various companies, any time you want them. Every day at 5 p.m., the Mess serves free French fries (freedom fries??) to anyone hard at work in the West Wing. On Fridays,...
“Dear President Obama,
Here is a list of the first 10 things you should do as...”
– “This American Life” #372: The Inauguration Show. (via fishy) (via inauguration)
“7. Enjoy moment.” - excellent deadpanness from a 12-year-old! This kid was brought up right.
Waltz with Bashir screens in Lebanon
The directorate’s censorship board bans Israeli films and all material perceived to “endanger national security” or “offend moral values.”
“Waltz With Bashir” meets that criteria by simple virtue of its Israeli origin. Lebanon and Israel are still officially at war.
But public interest is high in the animated documentary that recalls Israel’s...
It's the same with alcohol and units. Literally no...
The whole calorie-counting business is far too anal anyway. It encourages fat people to waddle around with a headful of damning numbers, perpetually totting up their score like a failing bookmaker carrying out an internal audit. It’s the same with alcohol and units. Literally no one understands the units system.
Around Christmas the NHS ran a campaign called Know Your Units which looked a...
Make the pie higher
So… it only took me seven years to hear about this little puppy:
I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It’s a world of madmen And uncertainty And potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the internet Become more few? How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me. I am a...
The mathematical formula that proves couples...
‘Courtship in a number of animal species occurs over an extended period of time,’ said Prof Seymour.
‘Human courtship, for example, can involve a sequence of dinners, theatre trips and other outings lasting months or even years.
‘One partner - often the male - may pay the greater part of the financial cost, but to both sexes there is a significant cost of time which...
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via reluctantbuddha)
Pretty much. This is why grandmas always win.
There are jewels in the crown of England's glory.
alexbalk:
“At Tuesday’s meeting Mr Brown tried to head off a damaging debate, only to be thwarted by Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary and a strong supporter of the third runway, who said all sides would have their say. On this cue, Mr Miliband and Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, spelt out their concerns over the project with Mr Benn causing consternation by claiming most young people...
One month after throwing his shoes, Muntader... →
peterfeld:
This man not only spoke for me, he brightened my Aunt Joan’s last day on earth considerably. I hope he is safe and is returned soon to the hero’s welcome he deserves. Then again, the Chinese executed that student who faced down those tanks.
asprettyasasong:
bjornstar:
This is why we fail.
The journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, who was immediately arrested, has been allowed only...
“And such is the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of...”
– The Birth of Venus
How to (possibly) get away with war crimes: mess... →
