Fred ,'Life of the Party'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I am hoping that my reward for doing my job well is reduced supervision. So far, so good.
Now begins a ninety minute meeting in a room that smells of fresh paint. I'm hoping my boss doesn't give me any hassles for dialling in. Because that's the only way this is going down if there's a chance of me lasting the whole day in the office.
Love the hat link from above--some of them were great! Others...might've been ok if they weren't at freakish angles on the head. Why were people wearing hats straight up and down on their foreheads??
It's surprising how effective a torment having to drive several miles with fragrant Thai take-out in the passenger seat is.
I'm looking at a sample report featuring Gerald Butler, Andey Rodick, Buffet Warren, John Walker, and Micheal Jordan. I'm not entirely sure if that's liability or obfuscation or something. It is really distracting, though. Especially since there are 20 other names that don't remind me of anything, and now I'm wondering if they should.
Why were people wearing hats straight up and down on their foreheads??
Because they're cool!
(oh, apparently they are cricket players there too!)
I was emailing with my mother about the menu for the Queen's Reception (just hors d'oeuvres and cake), and my mother wrote:
Aunt Pauline went to some wedding of a duke or something at Buckingham Palace and all they served were cookies!
Hahaha! (a) Of course Aunt Pauline did (she was married to a fancy English doctor); and (b) of course they did. Classic.
Let me be contrary about kate's dress and say it was too simple for the occasion. Almost aggressively humble, like, "la-di-da, just getting married in Westminster cathedral today, don't want to overdo it or anything." Be excited! This is the time for the most OTT wedding dress that church can fit, Diana style.
Uncensored version of Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray finally published
It's only taken 120 years, but the full text of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray has finally gotten published. Wilde's editor J.M. Stoddart removed a large amount of "objectionable" material from the book prior to its first appearance in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in June 1890, including "a number of things which an innocent woman would make an exception to." But after its first magazine publication caused a public outcry for its decadence, Wilde was forced to make deeper cuts, removing a lot of the homoeroticism from the book before it first appeared in book form in 1891.
Now, at last, Harvard University Press is publishing Wilde's original text. Editor Nicholas Frankel, an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, told the Guardian, "the time is ripe for the publication of Wilde's novel in its uncensored form … It is the version of the novel that Wilde, I believe, would want us to be reading in the 21st century … I'm bringing it out of the closet a little more."
Homoeroticism yay!
Hee: [link]
it was too simple for the occasion
Who are you, and what have you done with bon?
I like her dress, and that's new. Even at the time, I didn't like Diana's dress, and I was completely wish-fulfillment wedding dress-oriented at that age.
I think Kate's dress is going to look timeless in photos forever, pretty much. Whereas Diana's dress, viewed now, is sort of horrifically poufy and princess-wannabe.