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Trudy Booth - Oct 07, 2009 6:30:32 pm PDT #12756 of 30001

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Randomly, I'm watching old Sesame Street clips. When did the set get so clean? I remember it looking like a typical grungy city street, like this: [link] In newer clips, that green door got much brighter green and the steps look brand new. [link]

Gentrification, man.

DavidS - Oct 07, 2009 6:33:35 pm PDT #12757 of 30001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Which of the following facts about Sacha Baron Cohen is surprising to you:

He lead a teenage breakdance crew.
He spent a year on a kibbutz.
He supported himself as a male model in the years right after university.
He read in History in Cambridge with his thesis on the involvement of Jews in the American Civil Rights Movement.
He played both Tevye and Cyrano de Bergerac for Cambridge Footlights.

amych - Oct 07, 2009 6:34:23 pm PDT #12758 of 30001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

None

meara - Oct 07, 2009 6:34:55 pm PDT #12759 of 30001

Probably the breakdancing bit. Though I suppose it doesn't say they were GOOD breakdancers...watching SYTYCD I've now seen a lot of mediocre and BAD break dancers...

Kat - Oct 07, 2009 6:35:49 pm PDT #12760 of 30001

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

An un (less?) retouched picture of the Ralph Lauren model in the ad that tommy linked to yesterday. I completely fail to see the point of making her look like that. It certainly doesn't help the clothes any. They're still fugly.

They are fugly clothes. But I will say that the model herself reminds me of Brooke Shields and is more beautiful in the less retouched photo.

Why would anyone make someone's waist look smaller than her head is beyond me.

DavidS - Oct 07, 2009 6:39:13 pm PDT #12761 of 30001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

None

You're hard to surprise! Did you know them all?

P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2009 6:42:49 pm PDT #12762 of 30001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I'm also going to go with None.

Hil R. - Oct 07, 2009 6:43:41 pm PDT #12763 of 30001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I knew all of those except the breakdancing, and it doesn't really surprise me.

amych - Oct 07, 2009 6:45:43 pm PDT #12764 of 30001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Definitely knew kibbutz, model, history (oddly, in spite of not being much of a fan -- I must have read some article). The theater roles were totally unsurprising for the kind of shows that seriously talented people do in college. And I'd heard but didn't actively remember the breakdance thing, which I find hilarious because I knew so damned many affluent white suburban Jewish kids with a deep connection to performing hip-hop on the bar mitzvah circuit.

DavidS - Oct 07, 2009 6:55:35 pm PDT #12765 of 30001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Okay, did you know that "Baron" isn't his middle name?

His last name is "Baron Cohen."

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