Archive for January, 2010
the new underwear dichotomy
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Belle shows her box of family photos to a friend who has just been swimming
Gok Wan of How To Look Good Naked (which should really be called How To Stop Hating Your Body And Just Be Beautiful) says this: all women need two types of underwear, attractive bedroom underwear, and magic reinforced-bodyshaping underwear. You can’t [...]
intelligentsia v. intellectuals: where are we up to now?
Thursday, January 14th, 2010I’m reading this book on the Russian revolution. It’s very interesting and readable, and not too long (406 pages- well you know, Russia is a big place). The third chaper, entitled “The Intelligentsia”, I found rather alarming- not only were some of the tenets of socialism and/or communism noticeably reactionary and ill-considered (by all means [...]
update on my update (plus: sharing what pops into your head)
Thursday, January 14th, 2010So, after careful pondering and intense inner debate, I have decided to… leave this blog more or less just as it is, and put my new blog ideas in totally different parts of the internet. Mad Housewife will continue to be the spot for occasional, rambling and/or intellectually ponderous articles that have no unifying theme [...]
New York Times on British stuff
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010I love how the NY Times seems so old-fashioned and posh now, compared to any British newspaper you could mention. Here it is on the British press, the British snow, and a couple of shows currently on in London:
The local papers, with their usual love of understatement, are advertising the big freeze as life-threatening. (Temperatures [...]
