Ben really shouldn’t drink whiskey
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about everything else the man…
A few years ago, I worked on a Dick Clark Production*. My first thought was “I wonder if I’ll meet him,” followed quickly by “Of course I won’t. He’ll be in a cushy chair in the control room if he’s there at all. Dude is OLD.”
Well, I met him, because he was on set and in motion the whole time….
“Modern party-dance is simply writhing to suggestive music. It is ridiculous, silly to watch and excruciatingly embarrassing to perform. It is ridiculous, and yet absolutely everyone does it, so that it is the person who does not want to do the ridiculous thing who feels out of place and uncomfortable and self-conscious.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System
“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.”
― Edith Wharton
They are my favorite celebrity couple right now.
For President’s Day, our most handsome presidents (and presidential relatives):
Teddy Roosevelt on the Harvard crew team; Rutherford B. Hayes without the beard; Theodore Roosevelt, entering Harvard; Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham and Mary; James A. Garfield, age sixteen; William McKinley during his Civil War service
Yes, there’s double Roosevelt. Because he’s that hot.
