Hollywood is squandering one of its greatest comedic resources: Paul Rudd. – Slate Magazine
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The Wrong Stuff: On Air and On Error: This American Life’s Ira Glass on Being Wrong
It kind of gives you hope. If you do creative work, there’s a sense that inspiration is this fairy dust that gets dropped on you, when in fact you can just manufacture inspiration through sheer brute force. You can simply produce enough material that the thing will arrive that seems inspired.
The Wrong Stuff: On Air and On Error: This American Life’s Ira Glass on Being Wrong
The Wrong Stuff : Hoodoos, Hedge Funds, and Alibis: Victor Niederhoffer on Being Wrong
It’s terrible to be a bad loser. I like Soros’s proverb that you should never marry a woman you wouldn’t want to divorce.
The Wrong Stuff : Hoodoos, Hedge Funds, and Alibis: Victor Niederhoffer on Being Wrong
“Somewhere a Dog Barked” – By Rosecrans Baldwin – Slate Magazine
“Pick up just about any novel and you’ll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance.” (via)
“Somewhere a Dog Barked” – By Rosecrans Baldwin – Slate Magazine
Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979
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Why you’ve never really heard the “Moonlight” Sonata. – By Jan Swafford – Slate Magazine
The audio examples are really fascinating. (via).
When composers wrote for these instruments they sometimes loved them and sometimes chafed at their limitations, but in any case they wrote for those sounds, that touch, those bells and whistles. From old instruments, performers on modern pianos can get important insights into the sound image that Mozart, Schubert, et al., were aiming for. But music from the 18th and 19th centuries doesn’t just sound different now than on the original instruments; some of it can’t even be played as written on modern pianos.
Why you’ve never really heard the “Moonlight” Sonata. – By Jan Swafford – Slate Magazine
Why I stopped being a sports fan – John Swansburg – Slate Magazine
“At the most basic level, I stopped following sports because being a sports fan took too much time.” That’s pretty much my main reason for half-hearted fandom. (via)
Why I stopped being a sports fan – John Swansburg – Slate Magazine
Old photos from the Festival of San Fermín. Lately I’m enjoying the Slate/Magnum galleries more than The Big Picture (which also has some nice photos from San Fermín this year). It’s a little less newsy, more old-school and artsy, I guess.
“I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.” I can understand the surface appeal, but this always seemed like a very bad idea to me. [via link banana]
Mark Larson 