a society wedding

If you're having trouble stumping up the enthusiasm to read That Piketty Book, read this instead. The message is about the same:

As for the guests: Will Smith's son Jaden  wore a white Batman costume and ran around like a chicken with its head cut off from 8:30 p.m. until 10:25 p.m., batting glasses off tables whenever he came to an empty seat, smashing them on the ground. Vogue Italia’s editor in chief, Franca Sozzani, was getting irritated because he kept coming up behind her and throwing his cape over her head.

Comments

[belle le triste]

Bcz my head is screwed on a bit wrong, my first thought after having bits of that gleefully read out at work yesterday was wondering how a marble piano actually sounds

[Alex]

Off topic, a lot of additional information about the PLA immediately before Tiananmen has emerged: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/world/asia/tiananmen-square-25-years-later-details-emerge-of-armys-chaos.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[ajay]

belle: you ask, I deliver.

http://www.louismac.com/projects/marble-piano/

[ajay]

Steinway will do you a piano with what I can only describe as marble wallpaper. http://www.steinway.com/images/piano-model/marbleized.png

And a bunch of scrappy, indomitable unemployed Chinese metalworkers will do you a steel piano, http://hkmdbnews.com/?tag=steel-piano, so I'm sure they would knock one together from marble if you asked them.

[jamie]

re Alex @2

The takeaway from that looks like it was 1905 rather than 1917. so 1989 Interesting as an inflection point between a dictatorship with obsolete revolutionary trappings, and the starting point of the professionalised reactionary dictatorship that developed since then.