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The cheat sheet of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. I enjoy that this administration has a sense of goddamned humor.
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gallery about rss archive| Wednesday | February 10th | 2010 |
Photos of the Day - CSMonitor.com
The cheat sheet of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. I enjoy that this administration has a sense of goddamned humor.
| Friday | July 24th | 2009 |
Vanity Fair’s editors take a red (and green and blue) pen to Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, trying—in vain—to make it comprehensible.
| Monday | July 13th | 2009 |
Aha. Ahaha. AhahAHAHAHAHA.
From The Stranger
| Friday | July 3rd | 2009 |
Alaskan state Senator Hollis S. French on soon-to-be-ex-Governor-Palin’s ignoble and sudden abdication.
I love these “Alaskan” metaphors that have popped up since she became a known persona. They are so unselfconsciously weird.
| Tuesday | June 23rd | 2009 |
An absolutely stunning photo from today’s New York Times article on the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, a huge undertaking for Athens and a new source of Greek historical pride.
The article—and the Acropolis Museum—revisits the Elgin marbles controversy, and that is no surprise. For decades, British curators have claimed that the Greek friezes should stay in Britain because there was no suitable place for them to be exhibited in Greece. This state-of-the-art museum is a clear rebuttal to that argument, and references the stolen art subtly and constantly. For example, a semi-circle of caryatids stand in stately formation in one room, evenly spaced save for one conspicuous gap. The gap is exactly large enough to admit one more sculpture, but it is missing: the sixth lissome sister is at the British Museum in London.
The article has more excellent photos.
| Tuesday | May 26th | 2009 |
Good article on how the the art is being changed, chosen and challenged in the Obama White House. Out? Lots of pastoral (read: Texan) landscapes and portraits of white dead guys. In? Lots of African American and women artists, along with a bevy of more modern and abstract work.
Line of the article: “You shouldn’t have to look at Mrs. Hoover’s face over your bed for four years if you don’t want to,” by historian Steve Stuart.
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