“Romney is essentially saying, “Hey, I like the things you like too. We just can’t afford them.” It takes the debate out of the usual culture-warrior frame (liberals are using our money to undermine our values!) and puts it in a dollars-and-cents frame.”
Tag: 10.06.12
Telling The Story – And Thereby Changing The Story
In her new film, actor/writer/director Sarah Polley “plays cinematic strip poker with her family’s history, peeling back layers of long-held assumptions to expose new truths, some of which seem tabloid-ready. But Polley didn’t spend the last five of her 33 years making this film just to give us facts. She made it to tell us a story.”
Are We About To Lose Handwriting Forever?
“At some point in recent years, it has stopped being a necessary and inevitable intermediary between people – a means by which individuals communicate with each other, putting a little bit of their personality into the form of their message as they press the ink-bearing point on to the paper. It has started to become just one of many options, and often an unattractive, elaborate one.”
No (Legal) Complaint About A Nude Canadian Prime Minister
“Titled Emperor Haute Couture, it shows a smiling, unclothed Harper reclined on a chaise lounge with a dog by his feet and a woman in business attire offering him a Tim Hortons cup on a silver platter.”
New ‘Blackadder’ Script Discovered
Fans of the British comedy series rejoice at the Christmas script, wherein Rowan Atkinson’s character would have played the innkeeper in Bethlehem who offered a manger to Joseph and a very pregnant Mary.
Writers On A Plane, Shooting Fish With A Slingshot
Ten pieces of writing advice from Margaret Atwood.
Blockbuster Design Is Great – And So Is Small, Passionately Perfect Change
“Great designers can stretch us towards the limits of our comfort, and then create a new comfortable place where we didn’t expect to find one. Often, however, design breakthroughs are achieved in a less revolutionary sort of way. Great design can be about refining, or ‘perfecting.'”
Still Miss The Carol Burnett Show? Never Fear
YouTube has clips galore – and they’re inspiring a new generation of Burnett-lovers.
Shortlisted Turner Prize Art, On Display – In Britain, No Less
“It feels as if fairness is beginning to dawn over a prize fogged with anomalies.”