Prince Harry's Team Wins Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic

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I’d like to say that I was there, but I wasn’t.

Prince Harry’s team won 6-5 this afternoon, at the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Clasic on Governors Island, with the Prince assisting in scoring the winning score in the final second. Chalk one up for Princess Diana, who Harry honored before the game.

Yes, times are tough all around, but it’s far worse in Africa, home to Harry’s charity Sentebale, supporting AIDS orphans in the African nation of Lesotho.

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Anne Goes Underground with Danger Mouse, Dark Night of the Soul, & the Mother of all Funk Chords

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My little creative journey this morning began with the LATimes ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ can be seen but not heard.

“Call it this year’s most notable cross-species creative partnership: When Grammy-winning studio whiz Danger Mouse reached out to musical surrealist Sparklehorse about a possible collaboration in 2004, the stated intention was to make music, not art.

But that’s not exactly how things panned out.

After roping in 11 indie rock and alt-country star pals on two continents to contribute guest vocals, the duo produced an album’s worth of atmospheric soundscapes. Then Danger Mouse, who is one-half of the hip-hop-psych-soul duo Gnarls Barkley, called on idiosyncratic director David Lynch to “visually interpret” the tunes with photos.” via ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ can be seen but not heard.

I like to project the image of being pretty darn hip for an ‘older woman’, but this entire article is gibberish to me, except for David Lynch.

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