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Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."
Money quote: "Not one student said, I am studying English "because I want to make a lot of money" or 'because my parents made me.'"
What, no Angels and Insects? No Blade Runner? No Giant? Okay, I'm wrong about Giant—I've always over-rated it because it was almost exclusively made up of boring parts, so I got to make out with my girlfriend in the movie theater for nearly three hours. Now that was a visceral cinematic experience.
Writing a single "Recommended Components" blurb takes me about half an hour. It involves skimming the original review, searching for the details and the highlights and the heart, extracting those lovely bits, and rearranging them into a meaningful and seamless miniature review. It means taking five pages and condensing them into one hundred words. It means turning an essay into a poem. I kinda love it, I kinda hate it.
Sometimes, I complete an entry, re-read it, shrug, and go on. Shrug and go on. Shrug and go on. Other times, I complete an entry, re-read it, and say…
Part of NPR's You Must Read This series, which mostly seems like a better idea than it is. Anyway, this one intrigued me because The Dain Curse always struck me as nigh unto incoherent—perhaps it's time for a reconsideration.
Where's my copy of The American Library's Hammett: The Novels?
Why the man's a radical preservationist! But I agree with him more than not.
At last, a theory that explains that I probably do have more readers than Stephen Mejias, John Atkinson, Buddha, Adam Sohmer, Alan in Victoria, Jeff Wong, Al Marcy, my wife, and Monty. According to the 1% rule, I actually have almost one hundred readers!
Empires tremble at my might.
Huckleberry says it's too hot to be cute or amusing this week. Some other time, maybe.
Welcome to readers of The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Bagheera displays a languor not unlike that of a Modigliani nude.
Welcome to readers of The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
Based on the chap with the season tickets next to my concert seats, I'd say so! Hermione Eyre weighs in.