January 2011
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New Fleet Foxes -...
“Here’s the truly shocking part about this N.F.L. season: Among women 18 to 49,...”
– Katie Baker, writing for the New York Times Magazine, tries to explain the appeal of Sunday Night Football amongst women. But the answer she gives - the “soap opera” quality to the league’s drama - seems to be lapsing back into the same gender-normed explanation that this statistic...
WatchBack in 1997, Patrick Stewart and a then-unknown Vincent Kartheiser starred in the film Masterminds. It was a forgettable Die Hard clone taking place in a prep school, and starring a rebellious teenager as John McClane.
In the intervening decade-and-some, Stewart’s string of post-Star Trek flops were forgotten (cases in point: Conspiracy Theory and Safe House) and he re-established himself...
Watchmustardseedtree:
such a good ending!
(I suppose you shouldn’t watch this if you haven’t seen the movie.)
No Country for Old Men has easily a half-dozen scenes that would have kicked any other movie from good to great, but this is my vote for the best.
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ClarissaDarling: On the Ruins of Detroit →
My girlfriend wrote an essay arguing for the aesthetic/moral value of Detroit ruins photography! It is a good essay and you should read it.
“Respondents do not even attempt to argue that the claim at issue in this case...”
– Supreme Court Justice Scalia, in page 3 of his concurrence in NASA v. Nelson, being Scalia. (background news article)
Dan Deacon - Slow with Horns/Run For Your Life
I...
“Part of the train-wreck fascination of NOW That’s What I Call Music! involves...”
– From the introduction to The Onion AV Club writer Nathan Rabin’s look back at NOW That’s What I Call Music! volume by volume.
“Fincher wanted to begin instantly and started casting. Jesse Eisenberg sent a...”
– (Page 4 of) a new profile of David Fincher beginning his adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which seems to be much more promising than the book itself.
Fincher is (in)famous for a more-than-average number of takes on some shots in his film, and this quote makes it crystal-clear why: he...
Google Chrome removing h.264 support soon →
Google just loves to find strangers in the Alps.
Switching back to Safari whenever this happens. (And I’m running the dev branch, so probably even sooner than promised!)
Top 8 books I read in 2010
(… out of a total of 8 books read overall as far as I can remember and determine from historical documents like TUMBLR and TWITTER. Yes, I am an illiterate loser.)
Diary of a Very Bad Year by N+1- Exactly the book I wanted on the financial crisis at exactly the right time. Also sucked me into a cycle of loving everything N+1.
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman - Although the book’s...
An exercise for the reader
Compare and contrast excising the word “nigger” from Huckleberry Finn to the House of Representatives only reading the constitution as amended.
Can't believe I am typing this rant...
But I absolutely, absolutely, cannot get on board this latest literary controversy about a purported lack of female authors in the New Yorker.
Essentially, Jezebel republished an accusatory open letter written by a New Yorker subscriber to the magazine. Essentially, she accuses them of not publishing enough female authors based off of only seeing two or three in the last two issues of the...
Me: Have you seen Requiem for a Dream?
Brother: Is that the one with Jim Carrey?
“Thomas Carlyle, in 1831, warned of what he saw as the increasing...”
– Sam Anderson, writing for the NY Times on why criticism matters. 