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!

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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.

Meanwhile in Japan - Super fat kitty trying to lose weight per doctors orders

A very strange video - kitty is working out on some sort of underwater treadmill.

Neatorama sez:

A fat cat in Japan complies with doctor’s orders by starting an exercise routine. I don’t know if it’s the cat’s facial expression, his considerable size, or the appropriate music, but I could not stop watching this video.