It’s the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded, for the people who are locked out, all they can do is stare from a distance at that city’s glimmering towers.
– Mario Cuomo, 1984 DNC
RIP 1/1/2015
1. Instant Chewbacca — a new take on instant rimshot.
2. Jeff and Erin’s EPIC Wedding Trailer — a wedding I want to go to!
3. Salvador Dali on “What’s my Line?” — A surreal bit of old black
With the recent deaths of many of my childhood icons — Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, John Hughes, Bea Arthur – I got to thinking about the famous people who died this year. Growing up, we watched the Oscars segment honoring those who the industry lost during the year. It seems like there’s more celebrity deaths this year than ever before. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say I’m now old enough to recognize the famous people who are dying. Curiously, Wikipedia keeps track of the deaths of “important” or famous people by month and year. I looked over the list forRead More →
The Guardian obituary of Jean Baudrillard by Stephen Poole is nicely done.
The Last Words of Real People is an excellent language and rhetoric source for speechies and wordies. Dying last words are so interesting.
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