February 2010
44 posts
Mr. Plimpton's Revenge - Google Maps →
A Google Maps Essay, in Which George Plimpton Delivers My Belated and Well-Deserved Comeuppance by Dinty W. Moore First published in The Normal School, January 2010: http://thenormalschool.com/
January 2010
52 posts
J.D. Salinger, 91, Is Dead
J.D. Salinger, the elusive and enigmatic author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died. He was 91 and lived in Cornish, N.H.
Mr. Salinger’s literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, announced the death, saying it was of natural causes.
Published in 1951, “The Catcher in the Rye”became Mr. Salinger’s most famous work with its distinctive depiction of its angry, iconoclastic teenage...
Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and... →
52books:
Flavorwire has come out with a pretty decent mixtape for bookworms, reminding me that it’s about time I make a follow-up to books are the new boyfriend. Weekend plans = Volume II.
Thanks goes to Tug at about-today for the heads-up to the link. Be sure to check him out for new music!
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
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RIP
aaronleaf:
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This is a big deal to me. A People’s History of the United States is a classic. It’s had more of an impact on my daily life than just bout any history book ever written. I need to read it again.
keep reading him.
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Testify - Radiohead + Kanye...
Franz Nicolay Talks Tap Dancing, Vaudeville and... →
Struggling to carve space in his life for himself amid a grueling touring regimen, the keyboardist cast about for some historical antecedent to the road-warrior lifestyle. What he found were the multi-talented entertainers of America’s early twentieth century. “I’m appealed to by the vaudeville tradition because I think it’s the tradition in American popular music that’s really strong and really...
“We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the...”
– Banksy, Wall & Piece
Kate McGarrigle 1946-2010 R.I.P.
Beloved folks/roots singer and songwriter Kate McGarrigle (above, left) died yesterday, Jan. 18, following a battle with a rare form of cancer. She was 63.
Along with her sister Anna, Kate McGarrigle was one-half of the Canadian-based McGarrigle Sisters. The Quebec duo, who recorded albums in both French and English, got their start in the ‘60s and went on to acclaim starting in the ‘70s;...
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Wes Anderson accepts the Special Achievement Award from the National Board of Review using stop motion.
This is awesome. You Mr. Anderson are a class act.
this movie. oh this movie.
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus
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The Americanization of Mental Illness -... →
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Sherlock Holmes and the Social Sciences →
Just saw the Downey, Jr. film last night and my (meager) expectations were exceeded. Reminded me of this: Luca Critelli’s essay is, while complex and often overly ponderous, still spellbinding.
Far from being only a matter of literary interest, the stories and novels of the Sherlock Holmes series have been studied and commented by scholars from the most varied scientific...
Multicultural Critical Theory. At Business School?... →
A DECADE ago, Roger Martin, the new dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, had an epiphany. The leadership at his son’s elementary school had asked him to meet with its retiring principal to figure out how it could replicate her success.
He discovered that the principal thrived by thinking through clashing priorities and potential options, rather than hewing to...
A Peek Into Netflix Queues - NYTimes.com →
Examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.
David Simon, Producer of HBO's New Orleans-based... →
On a late-November Tuesday night in New Orleans, bodies rubbed up against one another at Bullet’s Sports Bar as Kermit Ruffins coaxed high notes from his trumpet. The music was infectious, the regulars who packed the neighborhood joint for this weekly gig deeply committed to it. The next night, Mr. Ruffins was back. This time, more than a dozen thick cables snaked their way out onto A.P....
'General Hospital's' James Franco begins new... →
James Franco may be ending his stint on “General Hospital,” but he’s just starting his career as an artist.
The 31-year-old actor, who plays a bad-boy artist named “Franco” on the daytime soap opera, says he will participate in a gallery show this spring at New York’s Deitch Projects, reports NY Magazine’s Vulture blog.
Franco’s gallery show will reportedly be shot as an additional “special...
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the smiths - this charming...
Sherlock Holmes, an Amorphous Sleuth for Any Era... →
Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it “justifiable homicide,” saying, “If I had not killed him, he would certainly have killed me.”
Had Conan Doyle been able to consult with the writers of “Sherlock Holmes,” the new movie directed by Guy Ritchie, he might have...
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