“She was waiting for him to speak and afterwards he would try to remember what it was he’d said. He only knew it made her smile and that had not been his intent.”
-Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Archive for July, 2008
29 July, 2008
letters must’ve been easier
28 July, 2008
Minimum turnaround time was at least a week. They were tactile, both a good reminder to reply promptly and a way of being personal. You could be choosy and get a special stamp from the post office.
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To everyone who has an email from me waiting in my ‘drafts’ folder,
I’ll do my best to make sure [...]
to relay
25 July, 2008
“Writing, and reading too, had become a grim duty, and considering the poor pay, there is seriously no point in doing either if you’re not having fun.”
-Jonathan Franzen
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Admittedly, his conception of the Community of Readers and Writers of Literature is a little bit extreme, particularly when I compare it to the location of reading “literary” [...]
media, reviewed
23 July, 2008
“Jackie Chan IS ‘The Prisoner’ “
Awful dubbed version on dvd from the library. Jackie Chan is, at best, the fourth most important character. Unlike American movies, “Prisoner” never really settles on a coherent message about prison. At first, it’s like, ooh, undercover cop facing the brutality of prison life, then it digresses into long sometimes-sentimental [...]
the marcus camby trade, considered
22 July, 2008
So a little more than a week ago, the Nuggets made their big offseason move.
DENVER: trades starting center Marcus Camby (NBA all-defensive team, former Defensive Player of the Year) in return for
LA CLIPPERS: cede the right to swap 2009 second-round draft picks with Denver
note: since NBA rosters are small, the draft only has two rounds, [...]
girl talk
18 July, 2008
& huge-scope academic debates that, apparently, we never leave behind.
The context: Girl Talk, a prominent mashup DJ who doesn’t just graft one vocal track to an instrumental sample, but rather weaves sample-cloth out of dozens of tracks at short intervals. Yeah, I’m no music reviewer, it’s not really worth my trying to describe it. Fortunately, [...]
