tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53762802009-11-22T05:08:39.319+01:00The Corsair"If you leave me now/ You'll take away the biggest part of me/ Ooo oh, no, baby please don't go"Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.comBlogger5000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-89496048517694485292009-11-20T19:08:00.017+01:002009-11-21T20:55:40.930+01:00Picture Pages, Picture Pages ...Behold! Rodin's The Drinker. (image via thecobrasnake)He's not unconscious, he's just taking a little disco nap. (image via thecobrasnake)Introducing the magnificent Duke of LongYang and his perpetually anxious manservant, Sum Ting Wong. Jet-setera, jet-setera ..(image via thecobrasnake)What do I think when I see this outfit? Depends. (image via papermag)My fellow Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-58905687724805508032009-11-19T16:00:00.007+01:002009-11-21T20:59:55.384+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"The party started early for some patrons of the black-tie shindig for the Museum of Contemporary Art, when honorary gala chair Larry Gagosian welcomed them to his Beverly Hills art gallery for a brunch and preview of new paintings by Jeff Koons. One quick look at the brunch dispelled any notion that last weekend's festivities held appeal for locals only. On the scene were Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-37602561128201478702009-11-18T16:00:00.011+01:002009-11-18T22:20:54.809+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"Uhm, did Dorota pick up the wrong dry cleaning? In a complete departure from her buttoned-up Blair Waldorf character, Leighton Meester let loose last night when she performed at the American Eagle Times Square Store. Judging from the incredulous faces of Gossip Girl co-stars Jessica Szohr, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Matthew Settle, this is a a whole new side of Leighton." (Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-53239147245227775622009-11-18T00:40:00.003+01:002009-11-18T00:47:16.499+01:00Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi Is A FreakAfrican dictator chic or African dictator freak?Wow, this guy's a freak. It's just not natural to be a dictator. The philosopher Leo Strauss, on this one thing, was correct.Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-31210828150664348842009-11-17T21:19:00.027+01:002009-11-18T00:15:52.190+01:00Obama In ChinaChina is handling its rise to power with more than a hint of dickishness. Granted, there is more than a century of humiliation behind the colorful Sino-American "backstory." And there have even been more recent frictions between China and America. A certain amount of pushback is to be expected. I understand that.But -- and this may suggest a certain naivete on this blogger's part --Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-6659820535959417492009-11-17T02:01:00.013+01:002009-11-18T01:30:59.010+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"'If Elton had only made music, that would have been a big enough gift to the world,' Bill Clinton said. 'But what he and the Elton John AIDS Foundation have done is truly remarkable.' The former President was referring to the fundraising and stigma-fighting accomplishments of the musician's charity initiative, which held its annual benefit, An Enduring Vision, last night. Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-48166132620577738392009-11-16T15:56:00.005+01:002009-11-16T19:52:39.931+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"Last night, celebrities like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Eva Mendes wandered through galleries filled with Warhols and Pollocks at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art for a lavish benefit to raise money for the once-struggling institution. Though the museum just opened its massive 30th Anniversary show, featuring 500 works from its permanent collection, the main Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-10950027883682899312009-11-14T21:39:00.002+01:002009-11-14T21:42:15.500+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"President Obama is on his way today to the only part of the world where vast numbers of Muslims actually want Americans to join them in the struggle against the forces behind terrorism. Unlike their co-religionists in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the quarter-billion Muslims of Southeast Asia—as many as in the entire Middle East—are appealing for Americans to work Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-21491932156166181432009-11-13T21:36:00.015+01:002009-11-14T21:49:36.119+01:00On "The Macho Tragic"There is something about what I like to call "The Macho Tragic (TM)." By that I mean the insecure testosterone-fuelled bad behavior that oftentimes takes place after the home team loses (or even if they win), or at bars frequented by single, coked-up Wall Street-types after the Dow closes lower. The traders have The Devil behind their double-breasted suits and God help the Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-71714596314543043602009-11-13T17:11:00.002+01:002009-11-13T17:14:06.153+01:00Joe Biden To Appear On 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' On Tuesday, November 17, Vice President Joe Biden will make his first appearance on Jon Stewart since becoming elected. Says the press release:Vice President Joe Biden will make his sixth appearance as a guest on the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Tuesday, November 17 at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT), marking his Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-39535400799058479102009-11-13T15:41:00.014+01:002009-11-13T21:03:27.717+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"What should we make of the news that President Obama is still not happy with the proposed strategy for Afghanistan, and that his doubts are being reinforced by a skeptical report from retired general Karl Eikenberry, who is now the U.S. ambassador in Kabul? .. First, I think it's a sign that deep down, Obama knows he has no good options. He’s figured out that the stakes arenRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-26060886420999650892009-11-12T15:40:00.008+01:002009-11-12T16:51:11.923+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"It was the sale of the season. When a seminal Warhol — one of the artist’s first silk-screen paintings — came on the block at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art on Wednesday night, the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, opened bidding at $6 million and was stunned when a bidder instantly doubled it. The price rose at breakneck speed as five collectors vied for the classic image, 'Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-91559811511376782822009-11-11T15:47:00.007+01:002009-11-11T17:11:49.271+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"How do you get to Carnegie Hall? If you wanted to enter the legendary premises last night, you'd have to be on Cindi Leive and Bill Wackermann's good side. Glamour hosted its 19th Annual Women of the Year awards, and it was an affair of epic planning proportions. The event involved the special security forces for the former President Clinton, hundreds of screaming Girl Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-85740724371782516492009-11-11T15:43:00.002+01:002009-11-11T15:45:34.856+01:00Friday's Speed Shrinking Event My friend Sue Shapiro had a "Speed Shrinking" event at the New School on Friday. It was covered by the local news channel, and it was awesometastic.Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-65824578182166157722009-11-10T16:32:00.005+01:002009-11-10T20:07:29.269+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"It seemed like everyone and their mother was celebrating the Y chromosome last night at Glamour magazine's 2009 Women of the Year awards ceremony: Rihanna's family was up from Barbados, a delegation of Iranian equal-rights activists made the trip, and the First Lady and the President appeared in separate video clips to give respective shout-outs to the Girl Scouts and the Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-51841962667882482582009-11-09T18:08:00.009+01:002009-11-10T16:17:51.817+01:00Is "Cool" Recession-Resistant?(image via brooklynvegan)Don't think the title of this blog post suggests that the author is some arbiter of cool. Quite the contrary. Our enduring love of the Howard Stern Show and, even more deplorably, the new TV show "V" should automatically set off red flags as to our trustworthiness as a taste maker (Averted Gaze). We know, for example, that fast food is Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-29095004931995937022009-11-09T16:05:00.008+01:002009-11-09T17:16:16.458+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"Lee Daniels’ 'Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire' has exceeded even the highest of expectations in its opening weekend, according to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today. The film - which has been the source of much anticipation and buzz since its Sundance debut in January - grossed a stunning $1,800,000 from just 18 theaters over the weekend, averaging anRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-50169302904503870932009-11-06T16:28:00.007+01:002009-11-06T19:59:47.147+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"Is living nude the best revenge? Stephanie Seymour, the 41-year-old former supermodel and veteran of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, Victoria’s Secret catalogs, and, not least, two Playboy pictorials, would seem to be making that claim on these pages. (A protocol question: Is one still entitled to be addressed as a supermodel even after leaving office, like governors andRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-57152583193481077582009-11-05T20:15:00.007+01:002009-11-05T21:22:38.865+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"My news this morning that the daytime diva has decided to give up her syndicated talk show and move it to her namesake cable network OWN in 2011, amid Discovery Communications' demands that she 'move it or lose it', caught CBS by surprise. The Eye was counting on a 1- or 2-year renewal if The Oprah Winfrey Show which its CBS Television Distribution syndicates. 'In all Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-30263424424868921902009-11-05T19:44:00.005+01:002009-11-05T20:08:14.965+01:00Last Night's Blip TV BashIt was shoulder-to-shoulder last night at the crowded Blip.TV bash at Mocca Lounge, located at 78 Reade Street (at Church). "Lists were put aside and the doormen were asked to smile so that all that arrived for the event were welcomed without any hassle at the door, staying consistent with the platform of the blip.tv philosophy," reads today's press release about the Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-55862510745490473562009-11-04T20:46:00.014+01:002009-11-05T00:11:21.453+01:00What Happened Last Night?My, what a long, strange trip it's been. So -- what the fuck happened last night? Last night the moderates won, no matter how the Republican wingnuts spin things. Nothing reflects this fact more than the results of NY23 -- the only nationalized race of the night. From John Judis in TNR:"The Club for Growth alone spent $340,000 running ads for Hoffman. With their backing, Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-21242678483626433572009-11-04T18:17:00.007+01:002009-11-04T20:46:19.887+01:00Media-Whore D'Oeuvres"The morning after an unusually interesting and closely watched set of off-year elections, the air is filled with the sounds of Republicans gloating, Democrats fretting, and the White House saying, in effect, 'Move along, everyone, move along, there’s nothing to see here.' None of these reactions are surprising in the least, for even with New York’s 23rd congressional Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-36465432160218625082009-11-03T19:21:00.002+01:002009-11-03T19:26:57.760+01:00Sue Shapiro At The New SchoolWhat are you doing Friday? Want to meet 8 fantastic shrinks and 8 amazingly brilliant editors & agents coming as guest stars to my friend Susan Shapiro's last NYC free Speed Shrinking party Friday 11/6 at 7-9 pm at the New School, 55 W. 13th St. 2nd floor. It's for charity, desserts by The Cupcake Tree and it'll be filmed by 2 TV crews! Read my review of Speed Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-51652902386919197912009-11-03T17:58:00.012+01:002009-11-04T00:13:43.942+01:00Election Day 2009There are some interesting races going on today in the off-year. Not the Virginia race, of course, which is a foregone conclusion. There is an interesting Washington Post story -- disputed by legendary conservative Democrat operative "Mudcat" Sanders -- blaming Deeds for not listening to the Obama machine (who won the state in 2008). Whatever the case, the Virginia statehouse wasRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5376280.post-65350870537956937182009-11-03T17:55:00.001+01:002009-11-03T17:57:45.551+01:00Steven Colbert To Sponsor The U.S. Speedskating Team At Vancouver Olympics
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cSport Report - NYC Marathon & Olympic Speedskatingwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorReligionRonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804543581141264145ron.mwangaguhunga@gmail.com0