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remainder of the ixday
Found art: moss growing in sidewalk. Clinton Street, Southeast Portland, Oregon. Updates to previous items: Just when I sneer that most thinking fans of Downton Abbey are not simply blinded by the pageantry of the prewar landed gentry, Roger Ebert comes out with this saccharine love-letter to “the way things were” when “people knew their place.” Vom. And, for…
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Downton Abbey and the Freight Train of Progress
From the Downton Pawnee tumblr. Andrew Sullivan linked to a couple of different articles trying to explain the (unexpected?) popularity of Downton Abbey in the United States. For Newsweek, Simon Schama makes the case that the show is a snob-ridden piece of Hallmark-y tripe: There are many things wrong with the Republic in 2012, but when historians…
