“It doesn’t mean that it is part of Standard English or any other recognised dialect. Still, if George W Bush can misunderestimate some things and Sarah Palin can refudiate others, then, like, whatever.”
Tag: 02.20.14
Booksellers in France Get Naked to Protest Attempted Censorship of ‘Everybody Get Naked!’
“A group of French booksellers and publishers took off their clothes Wednesday to protest conservative politician Jean-François Copé’s call to censor a children’s book from 2011 called Everybody Get Naked! (Tous à poil!).”
‘Researchers’ With No Archaological Training Vandalize Great Pyramid Of Giza
The two men’s “hopes of rewriting history were dashed … when a self-posted trailer on YouTube for a documentary detailing and revealing their exploits, drew almost universal condemnation and angered Egyptian authorities.”
That Time A Theatre Made A Cool Infographic With Its Actors To Help Get Money
“Sure, there are funding challenges, but when haven’t there been arts funding challenges? We live in a time with new technologies that can be used to enhance our art form and new technology that can be used to reach new audiences for marketing and development.”
Canadian Fans Say Olympic Ice Dance Results Were Fixed
“The villainy of ice dancing knows no bounds. If the fix is not in against Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, then I’m the Princess of Wales.”
Plans To Convert Abandoned Paris Metro Stations Into Nightclubs, Swimming Pools
“Most of the ghost stations have been closed since France entered World War II in 1939. And although they haven’t seen passengers in 75 years, many of them have still led a somewhat active life.”
One Man’s Quixotic Attempt To Recreate A Vermeer
“What seemed to make this the height of folly was that Tim Jenison, born in 1955, had no training or experience as a painter. Moreover, in Johannes Vermeer, he was embracing an artist whose canvases, for all their immense charm and quotidian content, are among the most complex, difficult and well … mysterious in the annals of great Western art.”
The Case Of The Illustrator (Who Earned Little) And The Painter (Who Got $5.7 Million)
“There is, then, an undercurrent of injustice to the astronomical price of Glenn Brown’s imitation: he has reaped a larger financial reward. Chris Foss must settle for something else: the plain knowledge that he defined and popularized a niche—a noble success, but one that seizes fewer headlines than seven-figure auction prices.”
Dallas Museum Of Art – A Tsunami Of New Friends (It’s All About The Data)
“Since introducing the program in January 2013, the museum has registered more than 50,000 DMA Friends, as free members are known. It continues to add more than 1,000 Friends per week. Before free memberships were introduced, the museum had 18,000 paid members.”
The Very Curious Case Of Why USC Is Closing Its Creative Writing Program
The official explanation — that it was a “business decision” — doesn’t sway most of the students.