Fireworks are the best part of the holiday, for me. - Cecily Walker
Cecily, I've never loved fireworks. I want some advancements in pyrotechnic technology. They've all looked the same since forever. - Jason Toney
Jason, reading your reply to Cecily made me laugh for some reason. (Maybe cos I was reading it in a curmudgeonly tone. Hee.) ;) - Ayşe E.
Fireworks in Texas are pretty for ~5 minutes, then the heat and humidity mixes with the smoke and smoke clouds everything where you can barely see it. - Trish Robinson
"As recently as 2004 the veteran comedian Sandra Bernhard could be found railing against the fact that women weren't "allowed" to do social commentary. "I think it's the last gasp of the white male, the patriarchy that excludes us," she told Ms Magazine. "They are digging their heels in harder than ever." But this is the first generation to be succesful at it and accepted for it. So nearly half a decade on from Bernhard's complaints there are, finally, some scuff marks where those dug-in masculine heels once were. The women may not have won the ensuing dust-up but at least they share the field with the men. Journalist Christopher Hitchens still refuses to cede ground - last year, he wrote an essay in Vanity Fair magazine entitled Why Women Aren't Funny. But he is in the minority. Women, it is agreed, are funny." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
"Politicians and political parties are incapable of thinking innovatively and freely. Instead it is think tanks that push the development of ideas and put forward exciting proposals and reports. But that involves keeping an eye on balance: if someone is too close to power, they risk becoming part of it. If they have too much integrity, they do not get any attention." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
"Whether you love America or hate America you still live here. It is still part of your culture and identity and when our country does something immoral we are all tainted by it. This war is not just Bush's fault or Rumsfeld's fault or Cheney's fault. It is the Congress' fault. It is the Supreme Court's fault. The media. The CIA. The FBI and it is OUR fault because we elected the people who governed us. I didn't vote for Bush but he's the HNIC and we are his public. When we go abroad we are all judged by our countries actions. There is no differentiation. We are all in this together.
That's what patriotism is. When you realize that this lives inside you. It is there. And try to disassociate as you might, it won't leave you. You won't stop wanting things to be better, for our country to be better. And you will be held accountable, whether you want to be or not, for what happens here." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
“Also, I thought Comfort and Matt should've gone home tonight but there's no way Thayne and Kourtni could've danced together. She's much too large for him to partner with.”
"The Black & White Gallery in Chelsea is hosting an exhibition of Robert Whitman’s photos of Prince, c.1978, taken just as he was on the cusp of fame." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
digging the Prince with fro here! huge amounts of cuteness right there. I'll have to check this out later. thanks. - Kamilah Gill
"The 18-year-old said the sixth Hogwarts instalment, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, contains "drug parallels" similar to the cult 1996 film starring Ewan McGregor.
And the bespectacled wizard actor revealed that the movie is charged with "sexual energy"." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
"Now, Grape-Nuts may be the first brand to appropriate "It is what it is" for commercial purposes (is it? actually, I don't know), but I'd be deeply disappointed to learn that a copywriter was paid and attaboyed to create it. Because selecting "It is what it is" is like playing buzzword bingo in the office. Haven't heard someone say it yet today? Don't worry; you will." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
Sigh. Hate. This. Phrase. So. Much. Especially when I catch myself using it. - Jason Toney
"Will Serena get her third trophy? Will Venus, the best player on grass of her generation, get her fifth trophy? Let's not forget that Venus could potentially have had six trophies if her little sister hadn't beat her in the all-Williams finals of 2002 and 2003." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
"Really dude? You're really going to name your album that? And you're really going to have that be the album cover?" - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet
Dukey Treats? Where was his manager, agent, publicist, kind-hearted record exec in all of this? That has got to be the most unfortunate title in the history of history. And I can't even address his dukey instrument that he is so obviously proud of. eek. - felicia
