From this weekend's New York Times magazine:
How did you feel when you heard that [William] Buckley died this year?I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred."
Gore Vidal - looking like Studs Terkel in his accompanying pic - cuts through the bullshit of not speaking ill of your enemy just because they happen to be dead.
*BREAKING NEWS*
I'm currently watching the live coverage on ABC News of a second man climbing the New York Times building. "Second man"? Well, Alain Robert has already climbed the New York Times building earlier today to mark World Environmental Day. he promptly got arrested when he reached the top.
Christ, I hate Maureen Dowd's op-ed columns in the New York Times as much as the next person, but hasn't someone told this climber that she isn't in the building today?
Nope, I don't understand why the blog turned up (briefly) on the front page of the New York Times technology section either. (Click on the pic, and then look under 'Technology Headlines From Around the Web'.)
Kerry Washington with Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and his wife, Elizabeth, at Susina Bakery in Los Angeles. Zac Posen knit jacket, $2,200, linen-and-silk blouse, $850, silk skirt, $1,500. At Bergdorf Goodman. Yves Saint Laurent vintage belt.
Morphing into a fashion blog?
Rebel chic has had its fifteen second airtime on the blog so, for balance purposes, it's only fair that I link to this weekend's New York Times Magazine fashion spread featuring Kerry Washington meeting (some of) the Presidential candidates.
To flesh out the *cough* “guerrilla artistry”, click on the link.
Tying in with the first part of the audio book of Howard Zinn's 'People History of the United States' is a review in yesterday's New York Times of Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore's 'DEFYING DIXIE The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950'.
The New York Times reports on the impact of the murder of Benazir Bhutto on the Pakistani population in Brooklyn.
And so it goes . . Wait up, that was the other bloke.
Never read Mailer to the best of my knowledge, so I'm heading over to the New York Times and the Guardian to tell me why he was important and why I should read his stuff.
Alan J over at the Mailstrom blog comments on the increasing income gap between the super rich in America - the citizens of Robert Frank's Richistan - and the rest of us, whilst last Sunday's New York Times magazine asked if they were sitting fine living in the Second Gilded Age.
Wait, I'll just check with my financial advisor.
Hat tip to Above the Borderline for the cartoon.
