A coffee table book about brooches, but don’t let that frivolous description stop you. Madeleine Albright, first woman secretary of state, accessorized with pins all her life, but it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent” in a poem he allegedly wrote himself that she retaliated by wearing a pin in the shape…
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Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
Speaking as an Alaskan I’d have eliminated Texas, not New Mexico. xkcd (h/t Kottke)
I’ve always loved their “Black Betty” in the shower, too.
Dana sez, he’s writing about visual artists but most of this is useful for writers, too. Especially Admit It’s a Business The number one mistake I see artists make is not accepting that they run a business. If you cannot accept and even embrace this simple fact, you are totally hosed. It is hard to…
In spite of the rain that fell straight through the Fourth of July weekend…
This is the song the poets don’t sing. This is the story Homer never bothered to imagine. Construe the isle of Ithaca, home of Odysseus and his wife, Penelope. Odysseus has been absent lo these many years—eighteen, at last count—and Penelope is besieged in her fishy-smelling palace by uninvited suitors wanting to take her husband’s…
So long and thanks for all the belly laughs. Although he missed the Pinwheel of Death. (Brian Phillips in The Ringer, h/t Kottke) Plus, further illness and death that won’t happen, brought to you by vaccines: Bangladesh just vaccinated 18.4 million children in an emergency measles-rubella campaign after an outbreak killed more than 600 people and exposed…
BWO The Best of Journalism, I came to this essay by Alan Jacob on his blog, The Homebound Symphony (Tagline, which I love, “stagger on rejoicing,” and there’s a link to the inspiration on his About page that is worth clicking through.) He writes about faith, and he reads old novels by authors I’d never…
