Chris' interesting links

Wellp. This a guy who always has interesting stuff in the 'status' section of his gchat profile. This is a post dedicated the care he takes in selecting things to put in that sacred space.

W.H Auden's Poem. From this interesting link http://www.feer.com/tales/?p=893  

Hongkong 

The leading characters are wise and witty;
Substantial men of birth and education,
With wide experience of administration,
They know the manners of a modern city.

Only the servants enter unexpected;
Their silence has a fresh dramatic use:
Here in the East the bankers have erected
A worthy temple to the Comic Muse.

Ten thousand miles from home and What’s-Her-Name
The bugle on the Late Victorian hill
Puts out the soldier’s light; off-stage, a war

Thuds like the slamming of a distant door:
We cannot postulate a General Will;
For what we are, we have ourselves to blame.

AAaaaah. Auden is too good.

Sharon Stone to Sichuan: "uhh You Sorta Deserved It"

via this post on Shanghaiist.com:



Sharon Sone doesn't like how China treats the Tibet issue and can't decide what to do about the Olympics because China isn't nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a friend of hers. When asked about the earthquake, she says the craziest lines:

"And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: IS THAT KARMA... when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?"

Ugh. She is so freaking smug and confident about her answer. I can't believe that thought even came across her mind. It's like saying that Hurricane Katrina was Karma's way of telling America that it should have been nice and not invade Iraq. WTF. How can a natural disaster be "payback?" What a moron.

L adds: Fuck celebrities. What an airhead.