December 2010
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Conversations With Ex-boyfriends
Me: What I really want is a boyfriend who’s there when I want him to be — to go to parties and movies with, to sleep with, to have dinner with — but who doesn’t bother me when I don’t want him around.
Joel (bf ‘08-09): That’s not how boyfriends work.
“I believe the reluctance many Marines feel about repeal is based on the false...”
– Marine Capt. Nathan Cox. Now, they can.
Who are all these Gilt members buying $15,000...
Gilt: Reminding you, once again, that you are poor.
Ebert's Top 10
washingtonpoststyle:
The only list that truly matters.
1. The Social Network
2. The King’s Speech
3. Black Swan
4. I Am Love
5. Winter’s Bone
6. Inception
7. The Secret in Their Eyes
8. The American
9. The Kids Are All Right
10. The Ghost Writer
I still need to see 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10. Who’s game?
Good company
Richard Holbrooke turned to diplomacy only after he was rejected for a job at the New York Times. He then wrote the first volume of the Pentagon Papers, so I guess it kind of evened out.
“I said, ‘What are you guys up to?’ President Obama said, ‘We’re looking for some...”
– White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on running into Obama and Clinton outside his office, in a lovely little behind-the-scenes piece on how the joint press conference came together.
“We take the content and we edit it here and add infoboxes, graphics and other...”
– Colin McMahon, a former foreign correspondent and now the “national content editor” for the Chicago Tribune. I know it’s ridiculous to bemoan this stuff now, but this is still a sad quote. Guess I’ll have to join the foreign service now and just hope that someone leaks my...
“In New York, the painting that people referred to as the “Shit Mary” hung for...”
– Jessica Roake, in a fantastic Awl piece about the Smithsonian, buckling to conservative pressure, removing parts of its “Hide/Seek” show about the art of gay Americans. I had intended to get to this exhibit over the winter break. I hope it’s still there by then.
“Obama argues that he is against gay marriage while also opposing efforts like...”
– Richard Just, The New Republic