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As far as I can tell, the essential quality of an Upper West Side brunch seems to consist of milling in a large group outside of a restaurant for over an hour.
Nora Ephron to Slate's Bryan Curtis in "The Birth of Brunch"
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Göring
is at Cafe Internationale. But I'm not going in.
This week's New Yorker, "The Education Issue," is not one of the usual flimsy staple-bound foldable jobbies, but a perfect-bound volume about a third as thick as Wired Magazine.
For one, there's no way I'll read all this in a week.
But more importantly, usually I can slip a New Yorker in my back pocket and sit on it. Makes great bus reading. This monster will put a dent in my ass bigger than Joey Wan's dimples.
Mark Beall: i m making contacts in the puppet world
» dude, i ve been having conversations about what stitches are best to hide in what fabrics
» you ever heard of the ladder stitch?
» it s like Jesus of the thread world, apparently
Who's the hotter Olsen twin?
Mary-Kate.
Matt Jurns: The British Museum, if you ever get the chance to go, is amazing
» it's more than an experiance
» it's an education
» that's not their tagline, but it really ought to be
» when I first walked in, I saw a big crowd of people huddled around a glass case
» "I wonder what that might be", I mused to myself
» 'oh, it's the Rosetta Stone'
» that's the sort of place it was
