“…Kavanaugh was setting a tone. Embedded in the histrionics were the unmistakable notes of fury and bullying. Kavanaugh shouted over Dianne Feinstein to complain about the “outrage” of not being allowed to testify earlier; when asked about his drinking, by Sheldon Whitehouse, he replied, “I like beer. You like beer? What do you like to drink, Senator?” with a note of aggressive petulance that is hard to square with his preferred self-image of judicious impartiality and pious Sunday churchgoing. Lindsey Graham eagerly took up the angry-man mantle, using his allotted five minutes of questioning to furiously shout at his Democratic colleagues. What we are seeing is a model of American conservative masculinity that has become popular in the past few years, one that is directly tied to the loutish, aggressive frat-boy persona that Kavanaugh is purportedly seeking to dissociate himself from. Gone are the days of a terse John Wayne-style stoicism. Now we have Trump, ranting and raving at his rallies; we have Alex Jones, whose habit of screaming and floridly weeping as he spouts his conspiracy theories is a key part of his appeal to his audience. When Kavanaugh is not crying or shouting, he uses a distinctly adolescent tone that might best be described as “talking back.” He does not respond to senators. He negs them. His response, when he is asked about his drinking, is to flip the question and ask the senators how they like their alcohol; his refusal to say whether he would coöperate with an F.B.I. investigation brings to mind a teen-ager stonewalling his parents. If Kavanaugh is trying to convince the public that he could never have been capable, as a teen-ager, of aggression or peer pressure, this is an odd way to go about it.”
►Film Facts ➛ Wonder Woman ღ ⁃ As incredibly difficult as it is to believe, director Patty Jenkins has to fight for this now-iconic scene to make it into the movie. Others working on the film were “confused” by what the point of the scene actually was. “It’s my favorite scene in the movie and it’s the most important scene in the movie,” said Jenkins during an interview with Fandango. “It’s also the scene that made the least sense to other people going in, which is why it’s a wonderful victory for me.”
Dance With Me “I like to dance with the water. The undertow and the waves. The water is mischievous, ha! I like how it misbehaves. The village may think I’m crazy or say that I drift too far. But once you know what you like, well, there you are. You are your father’s daughter. Stubbornness and pride. Mind what he says but remember you may hear a voice inside and if the voice starts to whisper to follow the farthest star. Moana, that voice inside is who you are.”
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation. A bright stone wall peeked through the leaves, “unspeakably alone and majestic and desolate — the mark of a great civilization gone.“
Nearly a century later, surveyors once again took flight over the ancient Maya empire, and mapped the Guatemala forests with lasers. The 2016 survey, whose first results were published this week in the journal Science, comprises a dozen plots covering 830 square miles, an area larger than the island of Maui. It is the largest such survey of the Maya region, ever.
The study authors describe the results as a revelation. “It’s like putting glasses on when your eyesight is blurry,” said study author Mary Jane Acuña, director of El Tintal Archaeological Project in Guatemala. Read more.
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on.” Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) dir. David Yates
The Duchess of Cambridge laughs as she prepares to convene a round-table discussion on the themes of addiction, intervention, family and mental health on her trip to the Netherlands.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) dir. Christopher McQuarrie
“There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace. The end you’ve always feared is coming. It’s coming, and the blood will be on your hands.”
29th August 2018 // Crown Princess Victoria talks about her and her family’s shared love of nature at the Stockholm Water Prize during World Water Week
Megs has such short-term thinking. She’s only thinking about what she has to say to look good regarding Sam being in the UK.
She doesn’t and can’t think further down the road to when angry mobs are protesting about frivolous spending, like hers. And yet, she thinks she’s some kind of pr genius.
One of the most beautiful things about being in Grand Staircase is that, out in the deep middle of it, with all of prehistory underfoot and twelve-billion-year-old starlight overhead, the world feels enduring and eternal. But that is, of course, an illusion. All things change. The only question is whether they change for the better.
Women come forward about past sexual assault and are asked why didn’t they come forward sooner, yet there are thousands of such instances involving boys molested by the church and their “motives” for coming forward years later are never questioned
The really interesting part of this article is the location of Doria’s penthouse.
I’m going to drop into conspiracy theory here, so #conspiracywarning. This new pad, which is suspiciously far away from their main home in the Cotswolds is NOT for Doria. Meghan is buying herself a bolthole in the city far away from palace staff. Also, it’s going to end up being a Soho House property.
Oh, really?! Brexit is going terribly and is going to affect the entire UK, but Megsy needs to decorate an expensive flat for her mom, who let us remember did not stay longer than a week after the cookbook photo op.
Lawyer Michael Avenatti Raises New Sexual Misconduct Allegation Against Kavanaugh
Warner Bros. has made their decision on the roles of Huntress and Black Canary in their next anticipated DC movie Birds of Prey, coming out on Feb. 7, 2020: Fargo and 10 Cloverfield Lane actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead has won the role of Huntress while Underground actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell will play Black Canary. They join Margot Robbie who reprises her Suicide Squad role of Harley Quinn in a Gotham that isn’t protected by Batman.
Goat peach dress (second most iconic look based on how much it’s been lampooned)
Carolina Herrera peach dress she wore to Trooping (I think this is her most “iconic look” based on that Modern Family sketch)
Best looks:
Blue Roland Mouret worn at BP
Black Halo dress worn at Commonwealth Meeting reception
Banana yellow dress worn at Commonwealth Youth reception
Black Emilia Wickstead she wore in Ireland
Gray Roland Mouret (sadly spoiled by visible bra) she wore in Ireland
I think a lot of people would add the black/navy Dior she wore to the RAF anniversary to this list, but I think that looked way to dark and fake. Ditto the cream Givenchy she wore to Chester. I think the dress looked good, but couture was the wrong choice for the engagement and the hair just killed the look.
Illustrator Tom Stults imagines what the posters of popular movies would look like in an alternate universe…if they’d been made earlier or later or in a different setting. He’s done dozens of these…the latest “What If…” set is here with links you can follow to his past sets. I could caption these but they’re pretty self-explanatory.
Because you better not be referring to a woman as a slut just because she’s female or you presume something about her sexual history that plenty of men take part in also.
I don’t think Megs has worn much Chanel, has she? Seems like that’s one fashion house steering clear of her. I am curious to see what fug thing she will wear to Eugenie’s wedding since Eugenie probably has friends that can dress really well.
Clarence Thomas Accuser Angela Wright Talks Kavanaugh Allegations
House of Brat 