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Friday, January 17, 2014
These People are in Charge
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Maybe i should write for the Times
I have been writing a lot lately about my boyfriend Brian Wilson. (The Giants closer, not the singer, or amazing song by The Barenaked Ladies.) And apparently the Times has been reading the blog cause they're all over it. The article even goes so far as to suggest the Wilson's interviews boarder on the performance art. Hello, that's why we're dating. We might not share religious sentiments but to prove that we couldn't be anymore perfect together here is the article's closing quote from Brian himself.
“I’d like to be a crossword clue one day,” he said. “I want to be in The New York Times’s Sunday edition. Right now, the clue ‘Giants great’ is always Mel Ott. I want my clue to be down, not across. The down ones are usually harder. And when I’m the clue, I’ll fill it in — just that one — and frame it.
“How sweet would that be?”
And by the way"All the best guys play for the Giants. FACT!"
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Big winners in the announcements this week - Via Gawker
Alexandra Danielle Linden and Dr. John Belletti
"The couple met during orientation at Columbia, from which each received an MBA": +7
The bride graduated from Amherst and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard: +4
The groom graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a medical degree from Vanderbilt: +5
The groom works for McKinsey: +1
The bride's father is a renewable energy firm partner: +1
The bride's mother is a retired Goldman Sachs partner: +2
She is also a trustee and treasurer of the Collegiate School and "the financial adviser to the Prince of Wales Foundation in Washington": +2
The groom's father is a retired cardiologist: +1
The wedding took place at the Plaza: +1
TOTAL: 24
Katherine Diane Kinzler and Zachary David Clopton
"The bride and the bridegroom, both 29, met at Yale, from which they both graduated, magna cum laude": +13
The bride received a doctoral degree in psychology from Harvard and the groom received a law degree from Harvard, magna cum laude: +10
In 2006 she was a Fulbright scholar in Paris, "studying the developmental origins of social bias": +2
The groom received a master's in international relations from Cambridge: +1
"Judge Diane P. Wood of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, for whom the bridegroom was a law clerk until August, officiated at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago": +1
The picture is angled such that they are literally looking down their noses at you and me: +2
TOTAL: 29
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, October 15, 2009
David Hockney at Pace Wildenstein
One of my favourite artist David Hockney has a show opening at Pace Wildenstein this week in NYC, according to this NYT article. I wish I was in town earlier to see it. But I am sure Paul and Virginia will let me know how it is, and maybe it will still be on when I get down next month for American Thanksgiving.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
This is some Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence shit
Interesting article in the Style sections about Ruth Madoff's fall from New York grace. The gist of it is that she has become public enemy number one and has been ostracized by individuals and businesses alike. She can't even get her hair highlighted! I don't know why, but it makes me feel bad for her. I am torn because I understand why people, and New Yorkers in particular, demonise those who profit fraudulently on the backs of hard working people and charities. But why does a hair salon or restaurant that have no or limited personal connection to the events feel the need to vilify this woman. I mean how cruel, to her and us, she is going to have horrible roots.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Snuggie gets its day in the sun
Image courtesy of the NY Times.
In addition to publishing that amazing picture of a young lady out for a night on the town in her snuggie, there was a great article about the new celebrity product.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Yves St Laurent saves the art market
De Chirico, the Italian futurist has long been one of my personal favourite artists and I am glad to see he is finally getting the market recognition that his work deserves. Below is his record setting piece "At the Conservatory"
On the Christie's website you can browse the collection and get the auction price. Below is the link to the New York Times piece on the Auction.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/arts/design/24auction.html?hp
