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Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
hmm it might be me but i think that's pretty funny! from Rachel Cooke's review in the Observer of Why Not Say What Happened? A book by Ivana Lowell about life inside the Guinness clan.
#books
Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
The rise of platonic life partnerships
The rise of platonic life partnerships
This really is a grotesquely stupid little article but ok I don't think this website's number one concern is critiquing patriarchy or capitlaism.
#love
The rise of platonic life partnerships
Trinny Woodall: I became addicted to cocaine because I had a total lack of confidence. I was very insecure and unappealing. I finally stopped because I didn’t recognise myself. I was so detached from life; I had no feelings. That is a scary thing.
Trinny Woodall: I became addicted to cocaine because I had a total lack of confidence. I was very insecure and unappealing. I finally stopped because I didn’t recognise myself. I was so detached from life; I had no feelings. That is a scary thing.
The Times 11 June 2022
I don’t do Botox to look young. I do it not to look tired. If I look in the mirror and feel awake and alert, I will be awake and alert. If I look exhausted, I feel it. I want to feel full of energy – that’s all it is.
#drugs
Trinny Woodall: I became addicted to cocaine because I had a total lack of confidence. I was very insecure and unappealing. I finally stopped because I didn’t recognise myself. I was so detached from life; I had no feelings. That is a scary thing.
Animal senses are superpowers
Animal senses are superpowers
Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong — The Times (archived 10-6-2022)
Birds have four colour receptors, rather than three, giving them access to a vast array of colour combinations unknown to us. So do some humans. Almost 50,000 people in the UK are “tetrachromats”
#nature#animal
Animal senses are superpowers
Matthew McConaughey : the beat of his own drum
Matthew McConaughey : the beat of his own drum
Matthew McConaughey was playing the bongos naked and stoned at 2.40am at his home in Austin. By his telling, he was “winding down” after a 48-hour bender following a triumphant victory by his beloved Texas Longhorns — “it was time to smoke a bowl . . . time to stand over my drum set and follow the rhythm of the blues” — when two policemen rudely burst in. He refused to allow them to protect his modesty with a blanket: “I’m not putting shit on! My naked ass is proof I was mindin’ my own business!”
#movies
Matthew McConaughey : the beat of his own drum
Tehching Hsieh’s art of survival in America
Tehching Hsieh’s art of survival in America
Tehching Hsieh's one year performances required some serious commitment. My personal favourite is No Art Piece 1986 where he abstained from making or looking at any art for one year.
from July 1, 1985, to July 1, 1986, abstain from making or looking at any art (No Art Piece).
if i was still teaching art i would make this a requirement for every student
#art
Tehching Hsieh’s art of survival in America