October 2008
27 posts
“Mr. Yousef said he shared all the details of his past with his wife before they...”
– Gaza Journal - For Conflict’s Widows, Hamas Recruits an Army of New Husbands - NYTimes.com (via doree)
If you read anything today.
“He was dressed, as it were, like Karl Lagerfeld, which is to say in clothes...”
– Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her | The New York Observer
(via doree)
The day in undermining!
The Tina Brown/Arianna Huffington story in the biz section this morning is an underminer free-for-all. That Diana book? “I was encouraging her to do more...
can you imagine watching The View with Joan...
Now as then, the same intractable questions were avoided and in the end successfully evaded. The matter of our continuing engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan and our looming engagements throughout the region had been reduced to bickering over who had or had not exhibited “belief in the surge”… This word “reform” kept resurfacing, but the question of who exactly was to...
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Michel Gondry at NY Art Book Fair, looking French and whimsical.
Update: Olivier Zahm was there also. He looked filthy, wore nice repettos.
Four things I'll be doing in New York this weekend
1. BUTT mag party at the Boiler Room (and New York Art Book Fair)
2. Hercules’ free dj set at Hiro Ballroom
3. the Chanel Pavilion
4. Roisin (!!1) Murphy for CMJ.
Marilynne Robinson
INTERVIEWER Does writing come easily to you?
ROBINSON The difficulty of it cannot be overstated. But at its best, it involves a state of concentration that is a satisfying experience, no matter how difficult or frustrating. The sense of being focused like that is a marvelous feeling. It’s one of the reasons I’m so willing to seclude myself and am a little bit grouchy when I have to deal with the...
Deitch Projects is bringing THE GOSSIP down to... →
“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”
– wise man
I havent posted anything in a week because Im reporting a story in Guatemala (headline today: Landslide kills 4; mechanic killed by AK 47). photos next week.
