Two exhibitions I saw over the weekend have impressive online presences.
Which means, in a way, you can see them, too.

+ Olafur Eliasson: 'Take Your Time'

+ Paul Chan: 'The 7 Lights'

Welcome to the 21st century.

Gail Collins has been the best thing going on the NYT Opinion page for the past year. I loved her before she left to run the editorial board, and I love her even more now.

Today's column actually brought a tear to my eye. HRC's candidacy had some flaws as a 'first woman' test case -- Clinton fatigue being the main, at least for me -- and she did, ( Read more... )

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An old-fashioned left-winger with a fondness for newts and old-fashioned dirty politics, or a 19th-century “Masterpiece Theater” Tory with an embarrassing sense of humor, or a gay policeman? It sounds like the mayoral options from a “Tintin” book...
So says Adrian Gill in a distillation of the coming London elections in today's NYT. (There was also ( Read more... )

Um, JK Rowling and Warner Bros.? You are out of line.

While it is true a number of my friends in London seem interested in the current goings-on in American politics, I can't say any of us are quite on the level of these folks.

Can I just say: I am totally thrown by the revelation that there is no need to drink 8 glasses of water a day. I have been trying to process this and its meaning in my life for a week now, and I don't think I've yet to come to terms with it. All these years diligently consuming ca. 2L a day, thinking it was The Right Thing To Do. Have they been in ( Read more... )

rollerboogie on the creative processes behind Doctor Who v. Torchwood.
Hint: one is awesome; the other is not. And this from a girl who loved Captain Jack.

Saturday night, people are coming round mine. In the meantime, 'The Runaway Bride' is on the iPlayer. I think I'll watch it before bed, actually. Why not, really?

Like everyone else on the internet, I've made a muxtape. It's songs from this year. Some of which aren't half bad.

Philip and I went to see Sugababes tonight for his birthday. It was really, really fun. We were on the 9th row, which meant we could see every little thing (including the Amy Winehouse-inspired eye liner), so the filming on cameras/phones going on around us was incessant. To that end, Phil noticed that people seemed to be rather partisan when it ( Read more... )