Thursday 12 February 2015
dumpster-diving or dead-letter office
so fetch
Via the indefatigable Neat-o-Rama, comes this erudite gallery of fine art turned hilarity with obviously timeless lines from a 2004 American teen comedy film called Mean Girls.
I had never even heard of this movie before—sounds like an updated version of Heathers with a different rat-pack cast, but I don’t think that matters in the least, though now I’d like to watch it and there also a sequel, apparently.
At least I know where some of these catch-phrases come from now, being the late-adopter that I am. These captions match perfectly with some of the iconic and those under-appreciated master works and one can tell that the creators are also art aficionados themselves, providing a blurb of historical context—for the painting and the characters. You can find many more images at the link to their Tumblr blog.
catagories: ๐จ, ๐ฌ, ๐, lifestyle, networking and blogging
five-by-five
my precious: a brilliant equation of the One Ring to the allures of technology
love token #9: a look at Victorian forget-me-nots for Valentine’s Day
i-spy: nickle-tour of some of the grandiloquent bastions of espionage
reboot: how the TV show Friends might look today
reaction faces: dramatic gesticulations from a nineteenth century guide
catagories: ๐, ๐บ, antiques, myth and monsters
Wednesday 11 February 2015
unionists and publicans
Writing for the Spectator, columnist Mary Dejevsky has found a more apt, although much more uncomfortable, analogy for the tension and territorial integrity that’s no rarified metaphor or theoretical matter triangulated among Russia, Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula.
Rather than resorting to popular but inhibiting comparisons to Nazi aggression or Czarist Russia, Dejevsky suggests a more contemporary parallel to another triad composed of Ireland and Britain and the creation of Northern Ireland. The correlation is of course not a perfect fit either, history being untidy, but I believe that by avoiding abstractions that strip away civility and humanity and making matters more personal (the UK certainly would not have tolerated any meddling in these internal affairs), one is better outfitted with the vocabulary to talk about matters, even if the received-language is already chilling enough in one direction.
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐ฎ๐ช, ๐ท๐บ, ๐บ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ธ, ✝️, ๐, foreign policy, revolution
pins and needles
catagories: ⚛️, ๐ช️, ๐ก, ๐ญ, foreign policy