Dec
24
Matchback
... yet another place to put stuff ...
Dec
15
“What if we had well developed receptors tuned to the level of moisture in the air? Wouldn’t we also impose an aesthetic on that? It seems like we would then have a kind of television based on this sense which would let us all have a similarly artificially manipulated humidity experience. What a strange world that would be.”
NonAlignment Pact: Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers
Dec
4
“What this movie really needed was for Andy Samberg as Mark Wahlberg to show up and have a nice little chat with Balthazar.”
Some Came Running: In Which I Apply For A Position As A Freelance Film Reviewer For Premiere.com
“Age 30 is not a magical turning point, however. Openness declines gradually over many years, often beginning in the 20s. As the years wear on, novelty becomes less and less stimulating, and the world outside someone’s own private and professional sanctums becomes increasingly less attractive.”
Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard: Scientific American
Dec
2
“The wacky duo sneak into a competing video store and, once the store has closed, put DVDs into the wrong boxes in the most boring act of professional sabotage in cinematic history.”
Dispatches from Direct To DVD Purgatory: The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Edition | The A.V. Club
Nov
30
“It was crazy,” said a worker in the electronics department who was in the store during the stampede. “The deals weren’t even that good.”
Trying to Make Sense of a Fatal Stampede at Wal-Mart - NYTimes.com
“It would be nice to think that perhaps our current climate models are too pessimistic; or even that they’re right but maybe we’ll end up at the low end of the predicted warming ranges; or at worst that the models are right and we’ll end up right at the center. But that just doesn’t seem to be the case. What it really looks like is that our current models aren’t pessimistic enough and that the growth in greenhouse gas emissions is exceeding even the modelers’ highest estimates. We are fast approaching a point of no return that will likely kill hundreds of millions of people, destroy much of the world’s food supply, and spark resource wars that make Rwanda look like a mild family quarrel.”
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones
Oct
29
Without Walls - Dennis Potter’s final interview as he was dying from cancer.
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