“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has ordered his government to look into buying the archive and Swiss estate of the émigré composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, continuing an effort to reclaim and repatriate Russian cultural legacy.”
Tag: 11.25.13
America’s Least-Favorite City Is Now American Television’s Favorite Subject
So when we look at our wealthy capital city and see a group of people getting everything wrong, sometimes lying, and generally turning into that mean pimp, we want someone to show us why this is happening. We want a story that will impose some explanatory order on Washington’s horribleness. Each new show about Washington – one after the other after the other after the other – does that.”
The Period Is Pissed Off.
“The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to conclude a sentence, but to announce ‘I am not happy about the sentence I just concluded.'”
At What Point In Their Lives Are Great Artists Most Creative?
In a newly published paper, economist P.H. Franses of the Erasmus School of Economics in the Netherlands reports that “painters create their most masterful works (at least as determined by the marketplace) “at the 0.618 fraction of their lives.”
Is Fan Fiction The Next Great Genre?
“Fan fiction in its current form was born in the late 1960s, in the pages of mimeographed science-fiction fanzines. But it has flourished in the Internet age.”
Monty Python Reunion Show Sells Out In Less Than A Minute
the promoters were clearly prepared for the huge demand that saw £65 tickets offered on re-sale websites for £1,600 ($2,600, 1,900 euros) within 15 minutes of the sale opening. “The first show sold out in 43.5 seconds. Four further shows immediately went on sale: 2-5 July,” a spokesman for Monty Python told AFP.”