Tag: RIP
Happy Sunday, everybody! I can’t believe two months of this year has already gone by. Especially since I don’t remember doing anything else but studying for the past several weeks. One more week of studies before I am done with the first round of the bar exam. That is, if I pass. But let’s not talk negative just yet. I pinned the above photo several years ago and captured it like: “this actually made me miss law school”. I know, I am crazy, right?! And the photo pretty much sums up my life right now, so I can’t complain. Be careful…
Happy first day of June, dear readers! 🙂 When you are reading this, I am having a great time in London. I hope you are also having a wonderful weekend, wherever you are in the world. 🙂 Since this post was pre-scheduled on Thursday before I left, I only had time to read half of the usual stuff. So this is it for now, I’ll be back with a proper Sunday Smack next week. Thank you all for reading, have a great summer! 🙂 A Far-Right Resurgence in Europe. What Does It Mean? A great overview of European election results….
shortformblog: Anja Niedringhaus faced down some of the world’s greatest dangers and had one of the world’s loudest laughs. She photographed dying and death, and embraced humanity and life. She gave herself to the subjects of her lens, and gave her talents to the world, with images of wars’ unwitting victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and beyond. Shot to death by an Afghan policeman Friday, Niedringhaus leaves behind a body of work that won awards and broke hearts. She trained her camera on children caught between the front lines, yet who still find a place to play. She singled out…
Just a quick and far from complete collection from my timelines. Feel free to add from yours.
4dspacetime: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – RIP Neil Armstrong August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
newyorker: Nora Ephron, 1941-2012 Read Ariel Levy’s remembrance of Nora Ephron, “Everyone’s Arch and Insightful New Best Friend”: http://nyr.kr/MooDBF And here are some of the many wonderful pieces that Ephron wrote for the magazine: “My Life As an Heiress”Ephron’s Personal History about her uncle and her inheritance.October 11, 2010 “The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut”A spoof of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”July 5, 2010 “No, But We Saw the Movie”Confusion sets in after seeing the adaptation of “No Country For Old Men.”November 26, 2007 “Moving On”Ephron writes about her love affair with her Upper West Side apartment,…
I was so sad to learn about Nora Ephron this morning. Quite a few of my favorite movies are written by her. May she rest in peace, her timeless work will definitely live on.
