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a puck in a purse

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2002.10.06

Okay. So the Queen dropped a puck at a hockey game in Vancouver. In the photos, she's carrying her purse. Why does the Queen need a purse? Does she have a driver's license? Could she possibly need a passport? Is it for the keys to her palaces? It can't be for kleenex - I'm sure she'd use a handkerchief and would likely store it in her sleeve like most women her age. So why the purse? Lipstick?

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009