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.
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
Posted by: belle le triste | May 31, 2014 at 03:15 PM
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
Posted by: Alex | June 02, 2014 at 11:32 AM
belle: you ask, I deliver.
http://www.louismac.com/projects/marble-piano/
Posted by: ajay | June 02, 2014 at 04:26 PM
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.
Posted by: ajay | June 02, 2014 at 04:31 PM
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.
Posted by: jamie | June 02, 2014 at 05:03 PM