Michele Bachmann’s Makeup Woes Continue At Book Signing (The Huffington Post Ellie Krupnick) We’ve written before about the GOP candidate’s issues with maquillage, the main one being that she wears too much of it. Now it’s easy to fall into the overly-shellacked t[...]
Archive for December, 2011
Barbie Makeovers
by Paddy Johnson on June 30, 2011 Art Fag City· Klimt, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh Barbies Does high art suddenly have mass culture appeal? Even with the growing number of reality shows on the subject my guess would be no — most people I know outside the field aren’t exactly spending a lot of [&hell[...]
December 4th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in Misc.
Breaking News: Muhamud Ali rushed to hospital
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China:Ai Weiwei supporters strip off as artist faces ‘porn’ investigation
Nude photographs posted in riposte to Chinese police interrogation of videographer for picture of Ai and women naked from the Guardian When artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Despite all, the Deity’s Favorables Remain High
from the New York Magazine For whatever reason, the polling outfit PPP, which likes to do silly things from time to time, has a new poll out on voter approval of … God. Yes, the God. Let’s look at the results: PPP Evaluating God [PPP][...]
December 3rd, 2011 - 11:56 pm § in Misc.
Breaking News: Eritrea Becoming the Bad Guy of East Africa?
Al Shabaab: Kenya asks UN to probe Eritrea Diplomatic relations between Kenya and Eritrea have worsened after Kenya formally filed a case with the United Nations Security Council asking it to investigate Eritrea for supporting Al Shabaab. If the UN takes up Kenya’s case and finds evidence against [...]
December 3rd, 2011 - 3:05 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
UW’s non profit food services!
Dear Colleagues, After I went to a Housing Food Services facility in the UW Med Ctr today and was charged either $1.45 or $1.55 for a bagel, I was reminded why I try to always pack my lunch and avoid HFS spots. If I want to get say a pack of gum or drink, all […][...]
Fisk University: To sell its birthright or just go broke?
From Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition. But it is unclear how quickly the historically black university in Nashville will be able [...]
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]