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I asked a friend if she’d seen this Summer’s blockbuster, she said she had, she thought it was pretty good, but that Margot Robbie wasn't hot enough to play the lead. “Margot Robbie?” I coughed. “Margot Robbie, the double Oscar nominee who embodies every physical quality we have been collectively conditioned to desire? That Margot Robbie?” ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprrJqJ%2Bnop%2BosrG0jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6Kus7POrWSrp5KXtqZ5yKxkp6ekYrWwwIyepaitl50%3D

Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce One of the under appreciated aspects of Marilyn Monroe is that she was an avid reader. Over the course of her career, more than 100 pictures were taken that feature her reading a book, often candidly in/between shoots. She owned a personal library of more than 400 books and in her letters expressed an interest in the poetry of Yeats and the writing of Thomas Mann.

*Hey everyone: This is a published autobiographical short story which occured in 2009 during my wild off-the-grid hitchhiking days in my twenties. It is gritty, real, raw, and definitely NOT politically correct. One note: Keep in mind that this is a very honest piece of writing. When the narrator judges the “fat” woman…keep in mind how much more severely he later judges himself. Yes: it’s rude and unkind to judge someone by their weight.

If you’re inclined to worry about the future of rock music—which, if you believe most of what’s been written about the genre in recent years, has gone the way of ragtime jazz in terms of cultural relevance—then I implore you to listen to I Got Heaven, the new release (as of March 1st) by Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy. The first song should be enough to send an endorphin rush to even the most grizzled punk rock heart.

My personal discovery, and subsequent embrace, of conceptualism during my art student years unfolded always in conflict with my equal interest in modernist poetry. This was not least because my older brother, who also was my first artistic mentor, taught me a lot about modernism but did not really like contemporary art. I struggled for many years to reconcile both, and it pained me that I felt I perfectly understood my brother’s modernist aesthetic allegiance while he did not understand mine, sometimes characterizing my pursuit of it as some kind of fool’s errand.

Food - from garden to table - and everything connected, by multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage. No thanks“A sheer joy. From plants and cooking to random facts about a very special piano - just great.” “Always fascinating, always beautifully written, and a unique voice. A writer's writer.” “I have been a fan of Mark's writing for a long time - his words often bring a tear to my eye be that through laughter or poignancy.

One of the most talented and unique songwriters of his generation, Mark Kozelek is also a prickly pear. The only time I saw him perform live in the 1990s, he threatened to stab someone in the audience for talking during his set. Born and raised in Ohio, Kozelek formed Red House Painters after moving to San Francisco in the late 80s. I bought their first … ncG1vNJzZmilkanBo7HRnqWsp55jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqqm2K4sMbEpZykZZ%2BberTBzWaioqRdorywuoyapZ0%3D

The accompanying shiur is available on the Orthodox Union's parsha learning app: All Parsha. The third book of the Torah, Vayikra, ends with whispers. In our parsha, the long list of curses that will befall the Jewish people, known as the tochacha (lit. rebuke), is traditionally read in a whispered tone. Even whispered, the curses are frightening—destruction of Jewish civilization, exile among the nations, running in fear without even knowing who is pursuing us.

THE AIM for this brief post is to call your attention to a clip I came across on Reddit this morning of two rather famous people having a conversation about being “the greatest of all time”, a subtle expression of adversarial win/lose competition that is bred-in-the-bone here in North America as a virtue. Here follows a brief transcript of the conversation between famed news anchor and journalist, Connie Chung, and famed actor, Marlon Brando: