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...Warren Buffett lies the soul of a wannabe rocker? A surreal video making its way around the Net shows Buffett doing his best imitation of Guns N' Roses rocker Axl Rose, complete with waist-length hair, a purple bandanna, a black leather jacket and Axl's signature red plaid kilt from the '80s - all as part of an eye-catching video for Geico, the auto-insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway. And Buffett sings too. O.K., he attempts to sing. (See the best Super Bowl commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett Plays a Guns N' Roses Rock Star | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...food were pretty standard. Given the formal’s name, FlyBy expected to eat Celtic dishes, light bonfires for druidic sacrifices, and practice witchcraft with cauldrons. Beyond one Dunsterite spotted in a kilt, most stuck to the usual formal garb. But maybe HoCo should find this a blessing in disguise. Rather than reflecting its batshit theme, Dunster’s Beltane was a solid night likely to remembered (or not) by many...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, D. PATRICK Knoth, and Amy Sun | Title: BALLin! FlyBy’s Formal Reviews Pt. III | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...Like many of the interned, 'Detainee B' also wrote poetry. His My Friend, the Highlandress, a tribute to a Scottish campaigner for terror suspects, contains one of the few slivers of levity in the show: in gratitude, the North African Muslim offers to wear a kilt of her clan, the MacDonalds. The other poems posted on the walls are darker. "Have you visited the graves of the living?/In Belmarsh there are two such blocks," writes Adel Abdel Bary, an Egyptian lawyer arrested after the 1998 bombings in East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captivating Art from Inside | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...bloody month!" Tait complains, again unconvincingly, as he raises his glass for yet another toast. The former Morgan Stanley banker has taken well to his new line of work - last year Tait attended 11 Burns Suppers stretching into February. It's early January when TIME donned the de rigueur kilt to join him as a Burns Supper guest at London's illustrious private Caledonian Club. "A little island of Scotland in Belgravia," as past chairman Alex Wilson puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bacchanal of Burns Night | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...haven’t lived until you’ve worn a kilt and flip-flops when it’s only 15 degrees outside,” Brown says. “In all seriousness, it’s a lot of fun. There’s sort of an adrenaline rush involved too, which is good, because otherwise I’d probably get frostbite...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Fans at Harvard Exercise Right to Democracy | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

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