4 posts tagged “news”
This city might get all the love and the better simile:
Like the seductive blackness of a Rorschach ink blot, a Parisian evening morphs effortlessly to every mood and indulges every fantasy.
-- Where Parisians go out after the sun goes down, NY Times
But benevolent autocracy still produces better food that doesn't cost 120 euros a meal:
Start with its unmatched street food — chili crabs and chicken rice, laksa and satay and fish head curry — served in hundreds of hawkers’ stalls. Fast, cheap and delicious, its hygiene is certified by the ever-vigilant Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.
-- Singapore: A repressed city-state? Not in its kitchens, NY Times
The BBC's Ian Pannell in Baghdad said most bombing victims were women queuing for cooking fuel to use throughout the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
-- Violence sweeps Iraq on Ramadan, BBC News
Not only that, but US officials have predicted increased violence throughout Ramadan. So you can look out for Muslims who are fasting killing other Muslims who are also fasting. What the fuck is wrong with these people? Seriously.
I've just realised -- yes, just only -- that I forgot to put up the link to the New York Times article on Pluto that I was praising on August 26.
If you haven't already read it, you should do so now: I Heart Pluto
I stole this from Joon's blog.
I admit, I've never been emotional about the solar system -- well except Jupiter, I used to stare at photos of Jupiter for hours on end in awe and horror, but come on, it's hard not to get emotional about Jupiter -- but this article got me feeling pretty sentimental about Pluto.
The situation this seems most similar to is the inextricably tangled social nightmare that is inviting people to your wedding. You truly want to invite your distant and eccentric but dear old friend Pluto, but this necessarily means inviting his horrible girlfriend, too, plus then maybe you’re obliged to invite all the other people you were both friends with in college, friends he’s still in contact with who will be offended if he’s invited and they’re not but who, frankly, are now boring people with whom you no longer have anything in common.
-- Tim Kreider, The New York Times
Goodbye Pluto, we'll miss you. Having our mothers serve us noodles or nuts isn't half as exciting as getting nine pizzas.
