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"Antonio Darden, who had cut Martinez’s hair on three occasions and runs Antonio’s Hair..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:23:00 +0100

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Antonio Darden, who had cut Martinez’s hair on three occasions and runs Antonio’s Hair Studio in Santa Fe, N.M., re-crafted the notion of civil disobedience when he declined to accept an appointment.

“The governor’s aides called not too long ago, wanting another appointment to come in,” Darden told a local news station. “Because of her stances and her views on this I told her aides no. They called the next day, asking if I’d changed my mind about taking the governor in and I said no again.”

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- Susana Martinez, New Mexico Governor, Loses A Hairstylist Over Gay Marriage Stance. La grève des coiffeuses : GENIUS !

mrscaravaggio: Carlos Schwabe - Death and the Gravedigger -...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:13:14 +0100

mrscaravaggio:

Carlos Schwabe - Death and the Gravedigger - 1895

newyorker: In Defense of Liz Lemon Well, I can’t get on board...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:53:17 +0100

newyorker:

In Defense of Liz Lemon

Well, I can’t get on board the hate train, especially after last week’s tour-de-force episode, in which Liz morphed from a crazy old subway lady (every New Yorker’s dream: she gets her way at every turn) into Heath Ledger’s Joker. Someone needs to speak up for the Lemon, and for the Fey. Because from the beginning Liz Lemon was pathetic. That was what was enthralling, and even revolutionary, about the character. Unlike some other adorkable or slutty-fabulous characters I could name, Liz only superficially resembled the protagonist of a romantic comedy, ready to remove her glasses and be loved. She was something way more interesting: a strange, specific, workaholic, NPR-worshipping, white-guilt-infected, sardonic, curmudgeonly, hyper-nerdy New Yorker. In the first episode, Jack nails her on sight as “a New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says ‘healthy body image’ on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for … a week.” Even Liz had to admit he scored a point.

- There’s been a backlash to “30 Rock” this season, particularly the character of Liz Lemon; which is why you should read the rest of Emily Nussbaum’s impassioned 1,700-word defense of her: http://nyr.kr/xDdxKc

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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:50:47 +0100

newyorker: A Tribute to Marie Colvin As I drove to the ice...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:05:07 +0100

newyorker:

A Tribute to Marie Colvin

As I drove to the ice rink with my wife and kids up here in Vermont, where we are spending a few days’ vacation, I thought about the choices we all make. Marie made hers many years ago, devoting her life to being a war correspondent. Everything else—her health, her family, her personal life—came second. Naturally, she sometimes thought of doing something else, something less crazy. At our last lunch, she spoke in her throaty-voiced way about the possibility of writing a book and dialing it back—maybe getting a gig at a think tank or a journalism school. I think we both knew she’d never do it. Many moons ago, she quit reporting for a while and spent a couple of years on the Sunday Times foreign desk, rewriting copy and managing other reporters. She nearly died of boredom…

…We all have to die sometime. Marie died doing what she loved, what made her feel most alive, what turns journalism from a job into something bigger and more noble: a mission. It’s perhaps not much of a consolation to her many friends and her family, but it’s what happened.

- In today’s Daily Comment, John Cassidy remembers Marie Colvin: http://nyr.kr/zxBWTq