Believe it or not, Germaine Greer wrote an entire essay on Posh Spice—and it’s positive: “Victoria Beckham may have seemed the least talented of the Spice Girls but her real talent lay elsewhere. She is an artist in the same genre as Damien Hirst: marketing. In an era of bare bellies, painted legs, visible underwear, junk jewellery and grisly computer generated prints, she is a lone champion of elegance for working girls.”
(This makes more sense if you read Greer’s essay in gallery view, with accompanying photos.)
Besides the MTA and DesignNotes, are there other .info sites worth a damn? I realized a long time ago I was getting a lot of comment spam linking to sites on that top-level domain, so I added it to my filters and have been pretty happy since, but I wonder if there are any other sites besides these two that I should know about.
(Um, so since comments with .info in them automagically get junked, if you’re sharing an url please just type .ofni instead and I’ll change it manually after it goes through.)
Watching this day in the life-style documentary of Tron Guy at ROFLCon last month kinda makes me regret not going. Man, I love Tron Guy.
[ via Emptyage ]
Bea Arthur’s 10 Best Moments: “In honor of her Bea-Day, if you will, we’ve decided to scour Youtube for some of her greatest moments. What we found, ladies and gentleman, might be the greatest collection of televised moments in the history of the medium.” #9, #8 and #1 make me especially happy. [ via B.A.’s Weblog ]
5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley. My friend Mike: “I really like the attempt to represent Wilford in all his divine aspects.”
Chris Rock at Time‘s 100 Party, on whether Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race: “If you leave a club at 1 a.m., it was your choice not to get laid. But if you wait till the club closes, you’re ugly, and that’s why you didn’t get laid.”
See also: Hillary GTFO, Hillary is 404
My favorite blog find today is the Chaptzem Blog, which is devoted to news of interest to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community. It’s a great read, written in English with Yiddish mixed in, and it lets you peek at a community smack dab in your midst that seems like it inhabits its own parallel universe. This email written by a nineteen-year-old who wants a wife is great:
What really breaks me into little pieces is that my mother goes around telling all the shadchunim what a big learner I am and that I need a girl that will support me in learning for many years. I don’t know, but I just can’t see myself having to sit in kolel for the next who knows how many years just because my future wife and father in law thinks that that is what I am. I can see myself having a shiur every day after work but not to be stuck in a kolel for many years. It’s just not me.
I love that his email is so heartfelt, but also that even though the situation seems specific to his community, switch a few words and it’s totally something you’d hear from an Asian kid complaining about his mom. Our differences, sometimes they don’t really make us different.
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Polygamist Style: “Let’s redefine the prairie dress. Lets get this some style. Let’s give it some chicness. And let’s help these women look great!” And yes, in case you were wondering about those shoes—he totally recommends “a cute little ballet flat, in a metallic.” Thank you for this, Mo Rocca.
Wylie Dufresne + PDT = the $5 Wylie Dog, “a deep-fried Crif Dog wiener nestled against a baton of WD-50 deep-fried mayo” breaded with hot dog bun-crumbs, topped with tomato molasses, freeze-dried onions and shredded romaine. Yes, please! [ via Eater ]