“Even after moving to the official residence, I carefully wiped down the floor under the dining table, put food scraps in a sturdy lidded garbage can, and washed and sorted plastic containers, so I was shocked when, one day, a
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"They were a success in Hollywood on one level. They brilliantly scammed some of the powers that be…"
“… and I never ceased to be amazed that very shrewd, extremely astute, hard-bitten, cynical executives are still blinded by celebrity. There was no proof from the beginning that these people knew how to produce material that people wanted to
Talking crossword.
"If 'lore' is in part a word about treating fiction as a set of discoverable facts, it is also a word that imagines the hard facts of real life as part of a grand story…."
Writes Mitch Therleau, in “A Simple, One-Word Trick to Turn Everyday Life Into Grand Fantasy” (NYT gift link).“Share a piece of lore about yourself,” goes one perennial prompt post on X…. The responses these kinds of posts elicit are not
At the Coyote Café…
"She won’t be here long"/"Next: H&M- the divorce"/"This is going to end in tears"/"My thoughts exactly. She does not want to be here. Lawyers will be circling…."
Various comments to be found at the London Times article, “Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK this month/Duke and Duchess of Sussex have enrolled Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet in a British school and are preparing to leave
"Unfortunately for [Jeff] Bezos and [Lauren] Sánchez, the very fact of their obscene wealth and fame may be keeping the gates of membership closed to them thus far."
“As the [Wall Street] Journal reported, ‘As with many private country clubs, admission often comes down to hitting it off with existing members…. In fact, too much wealth or notoriety has become a deterrent, as wealthy new applicants arriving in
"A few years ago, Charlotte, which is not her real name, was referred to the Select Date Society, which then offered services starting at $35,000…"
“… (due to high demand, the fee rose to $75,000 shortly after, with a top tier that started at $150,000). Charlotte, 38 at the time, worked for a successful business that had just gone public, so the money wasn’t a
"Look, I’d also be annoyed if touch of the ’tism TikTok were a regular feature of my offline conversations…"
“… but you’re right to laugh off your friends’ commentary if you can. It’s not worth wading into the quagmires awaiting you otherwise: conversations that assume and/or stigmatize a given condition’s symptoms and signs; declamations about the societal perils of
"[M]any on the left are blaming the media. 'The media lynched Jason Arday,' declared Ibram X. Kendi…."
“Important British progressives… signed an open letter demanding some sort of official oversight of journalistic decision-making. ‘Self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed,’ it said. The writer Will Self called, in an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham,