December 2011
Not in front of the servants →
On Christmas day, millions of Britons will gather around the television to watch “Downton Abbey”, a nostalgic soap opera set in the days of country houses and dignified butlers. This sniffy attitude towards commerce was not confined to Britain, nor did it die out with liveried footmen and debutante balls
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fizzygoodmakefeelnice replied to your post: DOWNTON ABBEY…IS IN “THE ECONOMIST”?!
whatwhatwhat
Actually, it’s really only a mention…BUT STILL.
DOWNTON ABBEY...IS IN "THE ECONOMIST"?!
Excuse me while I DIE.
I've literally been playing Knights of the Old...
And I had almost forgotten how much fun it was…and how fucking long it takes!
“In an interview published in 2007, [Deborah Mitford] recounted having tea with...”
– Deborah Mitford
I may be in a big English-nobility-in-the-early-20th-century phase. I blame Downton Abbey.
(via needsmorekittens)
” I’m never going to give you guys up,” I whispered, as I reblogged another picture of my OTP.
everyone else: i'm getting an ipad and a laptop and $300 worth of clothes and...
me: MASTER HAS GIVEN DOBBY A SOCK
“And God told Adam, “I will fashion a companion for you. She will have apple...”
– Genesis 5:6 (via iappropriatelylovethefool)
Sorry I've been away so much
Haven’t had much access to my laptop due to space and other occupancy issues (basically, I’ve been having to wake up and sneak onto my laptop when everyone else is asleep).
I miss my Tumblr family (that means all of you, basically) and I’m looking forward to when I will be able to get on more frequently. In particular I’m going through Downton withdrawals.
Duckton Abbey: Jesus Fuck...yet again DS9 is... →
frontier001:
randomestduckeva:
I use Memory Alpha to keep track of which Trek books are being published and when, since they do a pretty good job of updating and organizing it.
There hasn’t been a new DS9 book since Rough Beasts of Empire in 2010 (where they pretty much destroyed Sisko’s character and changed him into…
Totally agreed on RBoE. I’ve met Avery twice. I’ve heard him express...
“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand...”
– Vaclav Havel (via save-the-dates)
“The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not...”
– Vaclav Havel (5 October 1936 - 18 December 2011)
Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led... →
poughkeepsieday:
High School to perform Havel’s play Largo Desolato this February.
As Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected president after the nonviolent revolution that ended decades of repression, Vaclav Havel oversaw a bumpy transition to democracy and a free-market economy.
Vaclav Havel, leader of Czech 'Velvet Revolution'...
5feet12inches:
KAREL JANICEK, Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP) — The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle. The dissident playwright spent years in jail but...
“You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this...”
– Former Czech Republic leader Vaclav Havel • Writing in his 1978 essay, “Power of the Powerless,” about his dissident status in the former Czechoslovakia, a status he eventually broke free from after he rose to become the country’s leader. Not that he took a particularly normal path to the top —...
“Havel devoted his life to the cause of human freedom. For years, communism tried...”
– British Prime Minister David Cameron on the late Václav Havel
(via divorcedreality)
“Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to...”
– Vaclav Havel
(via fiend-for-nicotine)
“Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you...”
– Vaclav Havel (via jffacake)
“{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so...”
– Vaclav Havel, Czech leader of the “Velvet Revolution,” dead at 75. (via jacobsknabb)
dublincalling:
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed…
wibblywobblytimeywimeybeth:
Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte...
God damn it...Vaclav Havel is dead too?!
FUCK.
He was so incredible…I’m…I just…FUCK.
wholegrainlofat:
gedenkenbrauchtwissen:
A correspondent on CNN before said “I don’t think a lot of people think about North Korea on a daily basis.”
Obviously she has never met people like me.
or me…..
“Kim Jong Il has an exceptionally discriminating palate. There is an episode I...”
– I Was Kim Jong Il’s Cook
True stories from the Dear Leader’s onetime chef
(via theatlantic)
Um, yeah, back to that report on record starvation levels in the DPRK this winter.
There’s a discriminating palate, and there’s a tyrant with too many toys.
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Two quotes on North Korea.
motherjones:
From WaPo’s obituary of dead dictator Kim Jong Il:
The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
From PBS’s report last week on famine in North Korea:
About 60 percent of North Korea’s 24.5 million people rely on government food rations, which consist mostly of dried corn and rice. Earlier...