westminster abbey & royal weddings

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not that many royals have been married in the Abbey 

the first was Henry 1 and Matilda of Scotland (who I never heard of) in 1100

and then it was Edmund (the one with the unhappy crescent roll hat) and Avelina (of the sneaky side long glance) de Forz (never heard of her either) in 1269

Then it was Gilbert de Clare (in the road hazard outfit) and Joan of Acre (no relation of Arc) in 1290

a couple of others

then the King's Speech Prince Albert

then the present Queen 

then Prince Andrew

and now Wills and Kate

anyway these are some handy royal facts to drop into conversation at your various royal wedding lunch parties and/or breakfasts...

 

westminster abbey & royal weddings

See the full gallery on Posterous

via NYT

not that many royals have been married in the Abbey 

the first was Henry 1 and Matilda of Scotland (who I never heard of) in 1100

and then it was Edmund (the one with the unhappy crescent roll hat) and Avelina (of the sneaky side long glance) de Forz (never heard of her either) in 1269

Then it was Gilbert de Clare (in the road hazard outfit) and Joan of Acre (no relation of Arc) in 1290

a couple of others

then the King's Speech Prince Albert

then the present Queen 

then Prince Andrew

and now Wills and Kate

anyway these are some handy royal facts to drop into conversation at your various royal wedding lunch parties and/or breakfasts...

 

cables running riot

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"You can precipitate my problems with cables by simply calling me. There is a 50 percent chance that you will be greeted by the sound of my desk set banging against a radiator, because the spiral cord of my phone keeps tangling and assembling itself into a compact ball. Why? Am I unconsciously rotating or dancing while talking on the phone?"

Christoph Nieman, Abstract City (NYT)

more here

 

 

war horse

It's a play that uses life-size puppets to tell the story of a young British boy and his love for a horse. I saw it in London in 2009. And wrote this blog post when I first saw it.

They create living and breathing horses on stage... except they are puppets and the puppeteers aren't even trying to hide, they are completely visible...

What's odd, though, is after a few minutes you no longer see the puppeteers and only the horses. which of course is the whole point and probably the definition of a good puppet and puppeteer--you forget they aren't real horses in actual life...

Come to think of it that's a what a good story does--make you forget. Forget that it's just words on a page--forget that it's not happening in real life...because you've entered this magical world...

more about the author here

NYT article: Making Horses Gallop and Audiences Cry