Of Note

You’ve just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend! You are fucked!”

John Oliver

• Christopher Johnson, Members of the Washington Ballet Demonstrate their Most Difficult Dance Moves in Slow Motion
• Norman Jean Roy, Biography of a Face
• Adam Chandler, Krishnadev Calamur, Matt Ford, The Paris Attacks: The Latest
• Bryanna Cappadona, John Oliver says everything you’re feeling about the Paris attackers
• Ben Taub, Journey to Jihad
• Mrs. Frugalwoods, Maternity Clothes Are Like Christmas Trees: The Clothes-Buying Ban Continues
  • “It’s not a good feeling to be overwhelmed by how much clothing you have. I actually found it to be relatively embarrassing. Why do I own all these things? What was I thinking when I kept bringing home more tops and skirts to an already overcrowded dresser?”
• Jennifer Doody, Harvard Correspondent, Ebola outbreak: A system that failed
• The New York Times, Three Hours of Terror in Paris, Moment by Moment
• Bob Morris, Mary-Louise Parker on Life With and Without Men (can’t wait to read this!)
  • ‘“You don’t get through life without being betrayed,” is how Ms. Parker sees it’

  • “But then, Ms. Parker, associated with theater more than Hollywood, is not typical. Awkward and so unpopular in childhood that her older brother had to make her schoolmates let her sit next to them on the bus, she comes off as slightly askew and distracted in most roles, maybe a little feral. In a letter in her book to the accountant who helped her when she was broke and starting out, she describes her behavior “as someone who was recently electrocuted but didn’t seem to mind it.”’

  • ““How willing we are to reject the intelligence of someone who rejects us,” she writes.”
  • “Make her unhappy, put yourself first, do that awhile,” she writes to the future boyfriend. “When she is done with her suffering,” she suggests, Ash will “not be crying or begging. She will realize she is powerful and perfect alone and that she doesn’t need you.”
• Ross Andersen, A Cosmic Detective Story

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