January 2011
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Gisele Bündchen by Patrick Demarchelier. Vogue China, February 2011.
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Open Letter
Rhetoric, perhaps, may be seen these days as a banal, academic exercise. Yet, what some of us witnessed today unfold in Arizona deserves, frankly, a furious and most pressing verbal response. To hear a great orator utter such trite and hallow phrases, by way of protocol, is not only baffling, but saddening, too. More than keeping the injured and murdered in our, “thoughts and prayers,”...
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“There was a knock on our dressing room door. Our manager shouted, ‘Keith! Ron! The Police are here!’ Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.”
— Keith Richards, 1982
To My Husband →
I’m acquainted with four of the eleven ladies behind this, and I can tell you, right now: they don’t disappoint in the least. It is hilarious. To My Wife is getting the spanking it deserves. Of to the countryside now. I’ll see you all in a couple of days.
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“When he and his companions got into a tussle with a crocodile on the Nile,...”
– From our obituary of Hendrik Coetzee, explorer, who died on December 7th, aged 35.
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“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you...”
– Charles Richards
