To Do: Henri Bendel, the Middle Class, or Brit-Hop
• Henri Bendel hosts a one-month sweater sale; fashion editors proceed to spend .05% of their annual salary on items that will be used as presents for their very unstylish relatives. [WUNYC]
• Shrinking wages! Reduced pensions! Say it aint so! For only $25, a few upper middle class people, including former senator John Edwards, Wall Street Journal editor Stephen Moore and author Barbara Ehrenreich remind you of your place in the caste system. [NYM]
• Once again, we're amazed at flavorpill's never-ending fragments. Brazilian vocalist Otto dabbles in "hip-hop, post-psychedelic Brit-hop and traditional Afro-Brazilian maracatu with ambient techno rhythms and funky bossa nova samples." There's also some mangue percussion in there somewhere. [flavorpill]