Kiss Me Deadly. Not recommended. But I have to say (spoiler coming), the final scene–where the lady opens the mystery box and accidentally self-immolates with nuclear material–was quite a shock, to say the least.
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Like adolescents, distance runners have rivalries only with themselves.
Mark Oppenheimer in The Race That Is Not About Winning.
All runners are at heart mediocrities, bad even when they are good.
Mark Oppenheimer in The Race That Is Not About Winning.
The Case for Dennis Rodman: Outline » Skeptical Sports Analysis
I love this whole series. Statistics class would have been so much better if these were the lessons. It makes both basketball and math a lot more interesting than you’d think.
The Case for Dennis Rodman: Outline » Skeptical Sports Analysis
Diary
Diary (2010) by Tim Hetherington. Arresting.
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
I never understand why a company would put pointless music and animation between my credit card and their business.
This Fits. Truth.
If you want to understand foreign policy, read history, not the newspaper. When you read history, you get distance. You learn how events looked to people at the time – and how wrong they usually were.
India, bureaucracy, Bihar, 2003. India-17/2003 [Pat., SP (b. 1962)] by Jan Banning. I like a lot of the work on his site. (via)
Economonomics: Charitable arguing
Taking a moment to hunt for an interpretation that makes an argument good — before you denounce it as a bad argument — is a nice heuristic that forestalls the tempting leap from “There exists an interpretation that makes this a bad argument, but it may not be what he had in mind,” to “This is a bad argument!”
Arguments and opinions might be my favorite tags. (via)
Economonomics: Charitable arguing
Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay!
A certain literary discourse, about what others should or shouldn’t be doing with their art, will probably always exist as a distraction from writing novels.
After all, this is America, where the only art more popular than the art itself is the art of being a dick about the art.
The Social Network
The Social Network. No joke, this is a pretty amazing movie. Just like everyone says. Great tale, whether accurate or not. It’s refreshing to see a movie about this kind of creativity and this kind of business. Great editing. I didn’t like the soundtrack much when I listened through it as a stand-alone, but it’s just about perfect in context. Of the David Fincher films I’ve seen, I’d rank this one first or second, with Zodiac giving it stiff competition. Maybe Fight Club slightly edges Seven, but neither one is nearly as good as the other two.
Dan Charnas, Author of The Big Payback: Interview on The Sound of Young America
A really, really good episode about the business of hip hop from the beginnings to now. Worth a listen/read.
Dan Charnas, Author of The Big Payback: Interview on The Sound of Young America
Why I’m a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War – By Nicholson Baker (Harper’s Magazine)
Good stuff. I also liked Nicholson Baker’s article about video games last fall.
Why I’m a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War – By Nicholson Baker (Harper’s Magazine)
Saturday Night Live – George F. Will’s Sports Machine. “As always, the questions will focus exclusively on baseball, the only game that transcends the boundary between fury and repose.” Also, “The answer is: the exhilarating tension between being and becoming.” This kills me. (via)
(Source: http://www.nbc.com/)
If everyone had good manners we wouldn’t need laws. I think that’s the great hope of civility, that we can control society through cultural means rather than through lawyers.
Glenn O’Brien. (via)
Humblebrag: Re-Tweeting (Not-So) Humble Promoters – WSJ.com
Actor Levar Burton had my all time favorite. The tweet was “It’s a good night for natural light in LA” and then he posted a picture of his fireplace, but on the mantle above it were like 20 Emmy awards. A masterpiece!
I have always wanted to give a voice to my subjects. That’s really important for me. It’s their reality, and I’m mediating it for the public. And I understand that.
Tim Hetherington in an interview with NewsHour in 2010. There are several reports that the photographer and filmmaker has been killed in Libya. This attitude was one of my favorite parts about his documentary Restrepo. What a loss.
Mark Larson 