Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, in The Hyena & Other Men by Pieter Hugo, 2007.
Friend Damien Poulain designed this book.
— Via jessabelle2o7, from London.
While You Were Sleeping
Sterling silver human tooth hook earring and adjustable necklace, by Melbourne-based silversmith Polly van der Glas.
Oh for crying out loud. No. You know what, just… No.
— Via Gizmodo, from London.
Femme Tenant l’Objet Désagréable,* Man Ray, 1937.
*Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti.
- Via Ordinary finds and Observatory, from London.
“ Those people who make the restrictions, they don’t know nothing about music, it’s no crime for cats of any color to get together and blow.
Louis Armstrong, who never participated in civil-rights demonstrations and whose best friend was a Jewish gangster from Chicago, talks about his racially-integrated band.
An essay unearths Armstrong’s views on individual responsibility, which make many of his fans uncomfortable.
— Via Idea of the Day, from London.
“ It just amazes me how there are some people here who are trying to pretend, and I think consciously and intentionally pretending, that the economic circumstances that we’re confronting, all of them, mysteriously materialized over the course of the last nine months or so, which is totally, completely false.
Representative Maurice Hinchey, a New York Democrat, defended U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner yesterday, as he faced a panel of Republicans calling for his resignation due to his ”poor handling” of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
You tell them, Maurice.
— From London.
By Jason, after I told him this was my little sister’s favorite answer to any question starting by “Where.”
This, by the way, is French for ”IN YOUR ASS.”
— From London.
Status of same-sex marriage in Europe:
- The countries in dark blue are the ones that fully recognize same-sex marriage (yes, über-catholic Spain is one of them).
- The countries in lighter (as opposed to lighest) blue are the ones that recognize a civil partnership and grant same-sex couples quasi-identical rights as heterosexual married couples (including residency and/or naturalization in the case where one of the two is an alien). The U.K. is one of them (page 4 of this document makes it very clear).
This is 17 countries out of the 27 that constitute the European Union.
So if you’re a non-EU citizen hoping to spend the rest of your life with an EU citizen who happens to be of the same sex as you, this is one thing you can count on: you will be legally recognized as a couple and you will have the same immigration rights as heteros in at least 8 of those countries (I haven’t had time to research all 17 of them).
While it may not be ideal in everyone’s circumstances, this is an actual option that can provide a temporary solution when times get tough. Assuming, of course, that you have the will and the ability to move as you wait for lawmakers at home to get it together. And I sincerely trust that they will.
— From London, pragmatically.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Strike at the Westin St Francis Hotel in San Francisco, an audiovisual report by Jason Permenter.
My favorite thing about it? It’s so un-French, I mean they aren’t even trying to paralyze the city! Too sweet.
Whatever they need (“Something about equal pay something something, I think,” according to our special correspondent), I hope they get it.
— From London.
Sarah Palin's Book Needed an Index, so Slate Wrote One.
A couple of items:
- “Democrat,” usage of as adjective, 155, 227
- exclamation point, usage of, 4, 26, 120, 121, 122, 138, 150, 199, 207, 222, 223, 225, 233, 239, 241, 276, 302, 307
- evolution, skeptical views of, 217; use of “Neanderthal” despite, 30, 172
More here.
— From London, compulsively.
