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October 31, 2005 Happy Halloween!
I watched The Colbert Report one night last week. I found it boring. Almost nothing was funny. As Robert Bianco says in today's USA Today, "The session with He's Just Not That Into You co-author Greg Behrendt was so painful, it may have encouraged people to return the book." Behrendt would have been better by himself, instead of interacting with Colbert in a boring scripted dialogue. Next time that I have a half-hour to spend in front of the television, I'll know that I can find much more interesting fare on the Food Channel and the Weather Channel. October 28, 2005
The Sheraton Russell hotel, at the corner of 37th
Street and Park Avenue in New York, is slated to close next month in
preparation for demolition so that SJP Properties, of Parsippany, New
Jersey, can develop a 21-story condominium building at the site, reports
observer.com. October 25, 2005
The Sea Island quality fabric is woven in Italy by
the greatest fabric weavers in the world. It's supremely soft & breathable
making it extremely comfortable and light to wear. I have been very happy with the clothing that I have ordered from Charles Tyrwhitt. October 17, 2005 useit.com lists the top ten design mistakes that weblogs make. I suppose that the list amounts to one person's opinion, albeit a person with credentials. I commit many of the mistakes on my various blogs. Here is my picture. Do people really want to see pictures of bloggers? I enjoy some blogs without having seen pictures of the bloggers.
Who is the Manolo? Pajamasmedia.com writes: "In the year since the Manolo’s [sic] shoe blog debuted, his online empire has grown to include over a dozen sites catering to connoisseurs of cravats, bridal wear, bargain hunting, Prada, and of course, more shoes. A link from the Manolo has become the brass ring for fashion bloggers everywhere, and his site is an industry insider’s [sic] must-read." Zagat Survey 2006: New York City Restaurants is being released on October 24. It can be ordered from amazon.com. September 29, 2005 In this week's podcast at SimonSays, Carole Radziwill discusses What Remains.
September 28, 2005 The blog "Go Fug Yourself" "has become a small sensation," writes Brooks Barnes in the Wall Street Journal. "The site now attracts about 126,000 visitors a day." * * * "So far, Go Fug Yourself is generating just $3,500 a month through advertising. Getty Images, the big digital photo supplier, threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit and temporarily shut them down." September 26, 2005 Carole "Radziwill's
brave narrative thrums with emotion; her details are unflinching. She is
also discreet; only by searching between the lines can the reader divine her
feelings toward Kennedy relatives, Radziwill in-laws. And while she reveals
much about class, she barely mentions money, class' often conjoined twin.
Are there pre-nups? Trust funds? --from review by Mameve Medwed in newsday.com of Carole Radziwill's book What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship & Love.
Sherryl Connelly, Daily News Book Editor writes
in the New York Daily News about the book: "It's
much to her credit that while 'What Remains' offers a genuine understanding
of what it means to be an outsider in America's royal family, she takes
things no further than they should go. " September 23, 2005 "An office building that Harvard recently purchased in Allston is being considered as a site to house some of the University’s art collection during a future renovation of the Fogg Art Museum. * * * "The Fogg Art Museum on Quincy Street [in Cambridge] has not been renovated since its construction in 1927. It is not handicapped-accessible or climate-controlled, and only 1 to 2 percent of the museum’s collections can be displayed for visitors." --from an article by Joseph M. Tartakoff at thecrimson.com.
I watched the first episode of the new
season of Donald Trump's The Apprentice last night. Melissa,
the candidate who was fired, was probably the stupidest candidate yet.
Her statement that she could not work well with women was not very
intelligent, since women are more than half the population. Liz
Scott summarizes the episode at
tv.zap2it.com.
"Simon Russell Beale has played plenty of Kings in Shakespearean tales, but this winter he'll don a crown in a very different type of show. The actor is set to replace Tim Curry as King Arthur in the smash Broadway musical Spamalot, where he will begin performances on December 20."--Cara Joy David, broadway.com September 22, 2005
September 19, 2005 “Harvard will celebrate Constitution Day this afternoon. It has no choice in the matter. “In what several educators say is an unusual affront to academic freedom, a new law signed by President Bush in December requires all schools that receive federal funding to honor the anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption with a lesson on the nation’s founding document.” --from article by Zachary M. Seward at thecrimson.com September 17, 2005
September 15, 2005
Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd is scheduled for publication on November 8, 2005. "In a new book filled with chapters that surprise and amuse, Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing and gargling to Paxiling and Googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backward in many ways; why men may be biologically unsuited to hold higher office, given their diva fits and catfights, teary confessions and fashion obsessions; why women are fixated on their looks more than ever, freezing their faces and emotions in an orgy of plasticity that makes the Stepford Wives look authentic; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from Martha to Hillary, can have a successful second act only after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of Having It All is less about empowerment and equality than about flirting and getting rescued, downshifting from 'You go, girl!' to 'You go lie down, girl.'"--from Book Description at amazon.com and bn.com
September 14, 2005
"Suit makers return to the Ivy League style of
the 1950s," writes G. Bruce Boyer in the September 2005 issue of
Quest.
From the article: "I think the
resurgence of American traditional is something of a reaction to
overstatement," opines John Kalell, creative director of Southwick, the New
England manufacturer most associated with soft tailoring over the years.
"I see young men going back to these vintage looks and claiming them as
their own. For them, it's new and different. The fabrics aren't
flat and shiny and slick, they're textured and patterned and have some heft
to them. It's a young look for a new age that doesn't just break away
from the past, but uses it in maybe a slightly bolder way."
"The 372,000 schoolchildren displaced by Hurricane Katrina are stirring an
old debate about whether separate education can really be equal. "A number of states, including Utah and Texas, want to
teach some of the dispersed Gulf Coast students in shelters instead of in
local public schools, a stance supported by the Bush administration and some
private education providers. But advocates for homeless families and civil
rights oppose that approach. "At the center of the dispute is whether the McKinney-Vento
Act, a landmark federal law banning educational segregation of homeless
children, should apply to the evacuees. In addition, because many of the
stranded students are black, holding classes for them at military bases,
convention centers or other emergency housing sites could run afoul of
racial desegregation plans still operating in some school districts."--from
an article by Daniel Golden in the Wall Street Journal. It sounds like illegal and reprehensible segregation to me.
September 12, 2005 In the
Wall Street Journal, Andrew Blackman writes about Zappos.com * * * "Zappos has over 1.8 million pairs of shoes in its warehouse and says orders should be received within four to five business days. Domestic shipping is free on all items, but the company doesn't ship internationally." September 11, 2005 Wes Moss, a contestant on Donald Trump's The Apprentice, is going to speak at the September 14 meeting of the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. September 4, 2005
What Really Happened While You Were Away! Secret Security Camcorder Hidden in a Clock Play the full-motion AVI digital video files through your computer or laptop using the included USB cable.
August 29, 2005
Symptoms of Withdrawal : A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption by Christpher Kennedy Lawford is scheduled for publication in October, "a memoir . . . that is going to knock everybody's socks off," says Liz Smith in the New York Post. "This book is mesmerizing. You can't put it down. It remains that way until Chris 'gets religion' towards the end and dwindles his impact with preachy, repetitious AA platitudes and a rousing narcissistic 'recovery' that includes leaving his faithful devoted wife of 17 years and their three young children, in order to realize himself in sobriety."
Michael Gross’ new book
740
Park; The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building "which
will be in the stores in October is a riveting document of the city’s social
history from the time of the building’s construction which began about the
time the stock market crashed in 1929 right up to today. Now considered one
of the best addresses in the city, it was built by Jackie Onassis’
grandfather James T. Lee," says the
New York Social Diary.
August 25, 2005
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love, by Carole Radziwill, widow of Anthony Radziwill, is scheduled for publication on September 26. "In a way Carolyn [Bessette] and I were both self-invented," Radziwill reveals in her book excerpt in the new issue of O, reports the New York Daily News. "The difficulty for self-invented people is they have to reconcile what they were back then with what they are now."
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