Whores! Whores for charity!
Colin Farrell helped raise $20,000 at an auction to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina - by selling himself on Friday. Miami Vice co-star Jamie Foxx took bids for a date with Farrell and when nervous women weren't forthcoming at the Delano Hotel charity bash in Miami Beach, Florida, decided to ask for group bids. One bunch of 10 friends bid $10,000 for a date with the Irishman, while another woman doubled the bid for her own one-night stand. And generous Farrell helped boost the fund too - he paid $50,000 for a portrait of Ray Charles. Meanwhile, fellow human auction item Paris Hilton was brought to tears when one fan bid $200,000 to spend New Year's Eve with the socialite. She said, "It's so generous. I'm crying right now."
Though I'm more struck by photographs, and the people alive during the Regency era who survived long enough to have their pictures taken
I just love the fact that a wife of a Founding Father, and a very cool one at that, lived long enough to be photographed--Dolley Madison.
Oh, for $200,000 and the dental skills to install a Denver boot on someone's jaw...
I have seen it argued that a portrait can actually be more representative of a person than a photograph, since the artist can combine the different expressions and features in a way that the photographer cannot.
I've seen it argued, too, but I don't agree with the notion.
I do agree--at least for 19th century portraiture and photography. With a few exceptions (Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee both among them, as it happens), I rarely get a strong sense of personality off a 19th century photograph, while in a good portrait you can get it in spades.
Betsy, no, it's just Ada A, B, and C. We also have Marconi, Tesla, Hopper (for Grace Murray Hopper), and Edison. But no Babbage.
Also, point of interest, David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, was born on this date in 1912.
/more random useless info
That final photograph of Lincoln (the one with the cracked plate) is an incredible example of what photographic portraiture can be--just an amazing picture.
Jesus. Did we see this account?
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I mean... could it possibly be true? I can't fathom the heartlessness.
Both of the claimed writers are members of the union local my sister used to work for. I'm going to ask her if she knows them.
Ah, here's the original story:
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Huh. SocialistWorkersOnline. Well, not exactly mainstream press.
TDS's list of Bush Administration problems (missing a 'G': possibly George himself?):
Abu Graib
Bin Laden
Chalabi
Deficit
Enron
Failure to find WMDs
Haliburton
Iraq
John Bolton
Katrina
Locusts
Mars Attacks
North Korea
Osama & Jenna
Pregnancy: Osama & Jenna
Queer Revolt
Rodents of Unusual Size
Syrian War
Tigers
Unicyclists, Nuclear
Voldemort
WWIII
X-Rated Tape: Osama & Jenna
Yam Shortage
Zero People Left on Earth
TDS is making me laugh, but I hate the new background.
oh my god... "tens of thousands of people weren't stranded in Monica Lewinsky's vagina."
Bwah! ::winces::
