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With the New York Giants down 10-9 to the New England Patriots at halftime of Super Bowl XLVI last night, coach Tom Coughlin was, undoubtedly, giving the soon to be champs a “give ‘em hell” soliloquy. Still, last night’s most memorable pep talk came from an unlikely hero, Clint Eastwood. During a night when Hollywood rolled out blockbuster trailers for big-budget films like “The Avengers” and “Battleship” and companies like Go Daddy and H&M used the ubiquitous and, dismally, unoriginal... Read Full Story

It started like the disease it hopes to cure. Quiet. Innocuous. Just another news clip in the Associated Press. No one paying attention. No one really noticing — much like the whole issue of women’s heath care in this country. Within hours the disease was ravaging the internet, the media, the corridors of public opinion, spreading like cells of breast cancer that maim, disfigure, kill. The fabled protector of women’s health across the country and around the world, one of the largest... Read Full Story

Since the beginning of 2012, a mere twenty-eight days ago, justice, or more accurately, injustice has been the theme of the Errant Aesthete. Beginning with the ominous opening day greeting of the new year with the announcement that “you can now be detained — indefinitely” as a result of the new year’s eve signing into law of the National Defense Authorization Act, and the following call to action a few days later to occupy the courts in protest of the Supreme Court’s ‘United Citizens... Read Full Story

Jacques Henri Lartigue, Photographer, Bibi. Megevè, janvier 1930 Victor Strelkvosky, Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer, Ice skating waiter, St.Moritz, Switzerland, 1932 Rene Jacques, Photographer Andre Kertesz, Photographer,1977 Hans Klaus, Photographer Jaques Dubois, Photographer, Bronze statue of the Rivers, 1981 David Douglas Dunkan, Photographer, Turkish Cavalry on Russian Border, 1948 Harry Callahan, Photographer, 1950 Andre Kertesz, Photographer, Snow Covered Bench... Read Full Story

For whatever reason that only those who study the mind could comprehend, the uncertainty of the times and the protests that seem to have become a condition of consciousness and daily life never fails to send me backwards in time to get reacquainted with what has past and what was missed. Maybe I seek a bit of nostalgia or a remembrance of what once brought comfort (for me the habits, veils, and rosaries of the nuns), or the tranquility of a world that moved in a measured stride always... Read Full Story

Dinner with Diana Vreeland, from What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin Her glass of neat vodka sat on the white damask table-cloth. Beyond the smear of lipstick, a twist of lemon floated among the ice-cubes. We were sitting side by side, on a banquette. ‘What are you writing about, Bruce?’ ‘Wales, Diana.’ The lower lip shot forward. Her painted cheeks swivelled through an angle of ninety degrees. ‘Whales!’ she said. ‘Blue whales!… Sperrrm whales!… THE WHITE WHALE!’ ‘No… no, Diana... Read Full Story

STOP CENSORSHIP UPDATE: THE AFTER GLOW OF MAYBE Text: fightforthefuture.org Today was nuts, right? Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators’ websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks. You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined... Read Full Story

I spent my Christmas this year on a Houseboat in Seattle. It was as near a blissful time as one might imagine. So this Boathouse designed as a contemporary week-end retreat in the Lower Mill Estate in the Costwolds, a range of hills in west-central England, has just the sort of idyllic reverie one might crave for a bone-chilling day in the middle of January in a year filled with uncertainty. “The boathouse was conceived to serve as a tranquil retreat, the concept being that it should... Read Full Story

Move to Amend Occupies the Courts! Date: Friday 20 January 2012 Time: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Location: Federal Courts Nationwide Purpose Call to Action Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, Move To Amend is planning the kind of trouble that lightens the meekest of revolutionaries. The occasion: the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision! Americans across the country are on the march, so it seems. They carry signs that say, “Corporations are NOT people! Money is... Read Full Story

Taming the Breath of the Wok “The most important book in the culinary arts since Escoffier.” “The cookbook to end all cookbooks.” Iradiating Food to Perfection “A breathtaking new benchmark in understanding cooking…” The Lost Art of Pot Roasting It is being hailed as a masterpiece, a “landmark contribution to the craft of cooking.” “As important a work for the 21st century as Escoffier’s Ma Cuisine was for the 20th century.” As one reader (a happily satisfied one... Read Full Story