Social networking is totally fun! It's what all the cool kidz are doing these days. And if you haven't seen the Pride and Prejudice incarnation of it, go to Austenblog and read Lizzie Bennet's status updates! Whee! (Hat-tip to Don't Worry, Drink Chai!)
Also, I assume you're aware of Sarah Schmelling's Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float, an entire book of literary reductions presented as Facebook newsfeeds. But if you weren't, now you are. And there are excerpts at Maidens Who Don't Float! (By the bye, Schmelling was responsible for McSweeney's Hamlet newsfeed.)
Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float…'cause she drowned, geddit?
Now for the depressing bit of today's program
In the very first Anglotastic post, I talked about Moira Cameron, the first lady Beefeater at the Tower of London, and how warm and fuzzy it is that the Tea-Drinkers are considering the possibility of thinking about instituting gender equality a mere 500 years after the Beefeaters were established.
Well, for some reason, everyone is shocked—SHOCKED—that Moira Cameron has been harassed at work and made to feel unwelcome in the 500-year-old boys' club that is the Tower of London. Because gender inequality is dead, right? Right!
But for reals, dudes, Beefeater bullying is NOT COOL.
Beefeater Moira Cameron is adorable: Confirmed
Back to the positive, by which I mean the negative: Shoes!
I recently launched a temporary new blog (hello, school project!) called Shoes Only a Mother Could Love, in which I say mean, not-always-school-appropriate things about cugly shoes.
I bring this up here to tell you that I tried, and failed, to be sufficiently mean about Britty shoe company Dr. Martens, on account of Docs are so damn cute. Well, except for one of the pairs in this post. Seriously though, kidz, the ones here are oddly fabulous. Brits and gastronomy—maybe not so much. But Brits and shoes? Hellz yeah.
Oh, Doc Martens, your fabulousness gets me every time.
And now for international news
English ex-pat Hugh Laurie is doing quite well for himself indeed! According to this month's Foreign Policy cover story about how TV will save us all, House is the most-watched TV show in the world, clocking in at 82 million viewers. Jeeves & Wooster global represent, what what!
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Sexypants on House = Global Win
Prime Minister Update
If you didn't get the memo, Gordon Brown is, like, a total failure as Prime Minister. Oops! Maybe he should use the totally rad, weirdly accurate Barack Obama Quote Generator to give his speeches a little sumthin'-sumthin'. I bet that would fix everything!
"Okay, Gordie, what you gotta do, see, is give the people hope for their futures, for the tomorrow that could be so bright if we all take responsibility for ourselves. Now, give it a shot."
Problem = SOLVED.
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