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You may have missed the Lady Upgrade Project this month:
And so they came in their droves: an army of tight black jeans with white tennis shoes, immaculately scruffy hair, drinks with straws, little handbags jammed under the armpit à la tiny dog, oversized glasses and polka dot belts. Because these people consider themselves the Beautiful of North London, they (i) have not eaten anything in months and (ii) require at least 3 metres of space around them at all times. And so I get shoved, elbowed and pushed hither and yon by skeletal creatures my grandmother would not have hesitated to describe as "real Nancy Anns", but this makes me cross, so I combine half-baked ideas of zen composure with years of karate practice, root myself to the floor, connect with my inner sociopath and emanate caaaaaalm.The New York Times' obituary for Patrick O'Connor:
Then the neighborhood came back. Patrick said he always knew it would. "He was right," Joe said. "He paid the price, but he was right."Suddenly, it was not unusual to enter O’Connor’s and see something unfathomable a few years earlier: young customers in their 20s and 30s, and lots of them. Drawn to the jukebox, generally regarded as top notch, and the drink prices, the new face of Park Slope — generally smooth-skinned and white — began to outnumber the old men.
The cancer came about five years ago, starting in Patrick’s lungs. “Typical Irish,†Joe said. “He waited to go to the doctor. He thought he could take care of it himself.†He kept working. Patrick O’Connor died Oct. 8, a few weeks after walking out of his bar for the last time. He was 73.
Rebecca: "Harvard biologist Marc D. Hauser has a new, big idea: that human beings, no matter what their belief system, all operate from an innate, evolutionarily defined moral grammar. His new book is called Moral Minds and Chapter 1 is available on the Web."
Geoffrey Phillips interviews Marlon James: "Sexuality occupies a curious space in Jamaican life and when religion is added to the mix, the results can be devastating. It's such a strange thing. Our expletives are all tied to female body function and the first name that children give to sex is nastiness, at least when I was a child."
Marlon James also has a Proust Questionaire for you and some ruminations on Flavor Flav: "So if Madonna has taught two generations of young girls that if a woman prostitutes herself (as opposed to a man pimping her) then that is really empowerment (and maybe it is), then what are we to make of Flava Flav, samboing himself on this trainwreck of a TV show?"
New: Inside Aperture and Faneuil Media.
And some nice words from Khoi Vin about the New York Magazine Blogs, which Apperceptive built and help support: "Building blog brands inside parent brands isn’t easy — believe me, I know — but they’ve done a very nice job of it. Note the ingeniously informative Previous and Next buttons on the article level. They’re doing a lot of things right."
John suffered a little to make those links just right. I make the coffee.
Originally from hello, typepad by reBlogged on Nov 4, 2006, 10:46AM
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