February 2011
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There’s a moment when you’re pulling off a snug sweater, there’s a moment where it won’t budge in either direction and four-year-old you wants to freak the fuck out, but grown-up you eyerolls, tugs again, then breathes a small sigh of relief when the it finally comes off.
I managed to pull myself up from a nightmare this morning. It’s one I’ve had before,...
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Photo I wanted to take: 2 guys playing chess on a vinyl chessboard with pieces whose heydey was 15 years ago, drowning in more diffuse light than I know what to do with.
“May I take a quick photo of your board before you finish your game and pack it in?”
One guy leans back out of the shot, but the other guy, “Oh, well, pictures aren’t really allowed. This is my board. But...
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2011 is, so far, the year of the dessert and the British period drama. I suspect these are not… unrelated. (:
Tonight: Sense & Sensibility (2008). It’s quite nice, but David Morrissey, good though he is, lacks that barely-contained-simmer that Alan Rickman contained so well.
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“Thanks, lady; you’re no English muffin yourself.”
– Philip Marlowe, from Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep
BBC Radio 4’s Classic Chandler series makes me want to re-read Chandler and Toby Stephens’s delivery cracks me up.
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Wait, wait. Buffalo Bill Cody and Susan B. Anthony met at the 1893 World’s Fair? Awesome.
(Reading The Devil in the White City.)
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Of all the auto commercials from this year’s Super Bowl, Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit” was the best (okay, second best because obviously “The Force” is the best. commercial. ever., but let’s leave that aside for a minute).
That is how you lay claim to a city (/country) as an auto-maker. Are you listening, Chevy? You don’t do it by...
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“Americans, good. American leadership, bad. Americans, nice. President Bush,...”
– Gene Weingarten describing the gist of French opinion on America(ns) in “Pardon My French…” in The Fiddler in the Subway; “glass bowl” having been previously defined as a substitute for a description he couldn’t have printed.
“Glass bowl” is officially on...
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Bait and switch!
Do you suppose anyone at Amazon keeps an eye on the weekly free singles at iTunes, then compares the sale of that band’s single/album in their own MP3 store before, during, and after their featured time in the iTunes store?
I do that: listen to the (now 90-second) sample, if I like well enough, I pop over to AmazonMP3 and buy it (sometimes the whole album). Now, I’m curious to know...