Sorry for the paucity of posts this week, dear readers. I’ve been pretty burned out from work. Plus, we spent last night picking up my wife’s new Mini Cooper S, which has her pretty excited. Pix to follow this weekend.
Your Unrequred Reading is carefully hidden away under that “more” link!
I always thought Cate Blanchett was from another planet, but now it looks like she’s from the same place Milla Jovovich came from in The Fifth Element.
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One of the great contemporary cartoonists, Eddie Campbell, started a blog a week or two back. Here’s a piece about illustration vs. cartooning.
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Here’s an interview with Mick Jones by the AV Club. Not a lot about Big Audio Dynamite, a band I’m wistful for.
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An opinion piece on how the Italian healthcare system is crippling Italian healthcare.
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The 2008 Olympic Stadium: Another Chinese structure that I don’t believe will stand up. Also, check out this article from last year on how much Beijing is consuming in its construction-binge.
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Anne Applebaum connects the dots in the Litivenko radiation-hit.
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Charles Krauthammer has some choice words on the same subject.
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I was too tired and burned-out last night to watch the best regular season NBA game in years.
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Here’s a roundtable conversation of novelists about “secret histories”. Unfortunately, Charles Portis, Thomas Pynchon and Ron Rosenbaum (not a novelist, but still) weren’t in it.
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The official VM wife writes about the hunt for blood-free engagement ring!