The New Yorker has two fantastic things right now (probably others, but these are the two I could not detach myself from): Gerry Adams’ cloaked IRA leadership (I also recommend Ed Moloney’s book, which I read while IN Northern Ireland and made for a really intense experience) and also Break-In at Y-12, on how that lil group of pacifists basically walked into a secure nuclear facility.
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This is the best reason to become a New Media Personality, and also the article is great and it is here:
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Julia Carrie Wong on anti-black prejudice in Asian communities:
The presence of resentment, distrust and intolerance between two different groups that are both struggling to succeed in the white-dominated United States is no secret. Tensions between Korean American shopkeepers and African-Americans were put on national display during the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, and in many Asian communities, anti-black sentiment goes unquestioned and unchecked. The recent indictment of Chinese-American New York City police officer Peter Liang for shooting and killing an unnamed black man, Akai Gurley, in the staircase of a housing project last November, is a stark calling of the question that #Asians4BlackLives is putting forward: “Which side are you on?”
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A mother’s struggle to get the government to accept her daughter’s traditional Chipewyan name, glottal stop and all:
When Catholique Valpy attempted to register her baby in February of last year, she received a phone call from the Northwest Territories government’s vital statistics department, telling her it couldn’t support the use of the traditional character. In an email to Catholique Valpy, a government representative explained that’s because the glottal stop isn’t part of the Roman alphabet.
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This is a nightmare.
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Noted troll Jazmine Hughes lists movies she has not seen.
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I may be fat but I am fat on your television motherfuckers. Deal with it.
— roxane gay (@rgay) March 9, 2015
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How criminal records hold Americans back:
Jacobs, the author of a new book called “The Eternal Criminal Record,” is just one of a wave of legal experts and advocates arguing that it is time to take drastic steps to reduce these records’ unprecedented power. Criminal records follow people after their release from prison; they even cling to those with minor offenses who never serve a day in prison, or who were arrested but never convicted. The stickiness of American criminal records—which, unlike in most European countries, can be readily searched by employers and landlords—can make it harder to qualify for housing, for public benefits programs, and for higher education. Worst of all, it can put legitimate employment out of reach, leading ex-offenders right back to the underground economy.
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How Bob Hope captured America:
In trying to answer the question of why Hope is in eclipse today, Zoglin speculates in part that he “never recovered from the Vietnam years.” Hope made a spectacle of himself then, not so much in his knee-jerk support for the war (his hawkishness did not diminish his Nielsen ratings) but in his obliviousness to the rapid changes in pop culture going on all around him. Ed Sullivan was a bit older than Hope and is no one’s idea of a hipster, but he figured out that the Beatles were more than a passing fad, not to mention a commercial opportunity, and booked them at first sight on his own televised vaudeville show. Hope dismissed them with a tone-deaf gag: “Aren’t they something? They sound like Hermione Gingold getting mugged.” A particularly painful sight among the photos in Hope is a shot of the middle-aged Hope, Steve Lawrence, and Eydie Gormé draped in wigs and beads to satirize unwashed hippies. The sharpest insult Hope could muster about Woodstock was that it produced “the most dandruff that was ever in one place.”
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Just wanted to say how constantly impressed by and grateful I am for Nicole Callahan, who took care of you so beautifully while I was on leave and has never ONCE asked me the same question twice. There is no substitute for waking up at two am and thinking OH SHOULD I REMIND NIKKI TO…? and then thinking NOPE SHE’LL HAVE REMEMBERED. I love you, Callahan. Never leave me.
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I too have never seen Titanic! And I never will!
A long while ago, I was hanging out in a bar and it was on screen. Soon after I made my friend reposition ourselves so my eyeballs wouldn’t be assaulted, I overheard another lady farther down the bar ask her friend, “Change seats with me; Titanic is on my no-see list.”
I’m always thrilled to discover my sistren.
(ETA: I don’t care if Jazmine’s list is real. I choose to believe it is.)
IT IS 100% REAL I AM A GOD (WHO HATES MOVIES)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I sort of regret keeping my banned film list short, now. I figured I might live a long time and my memory is too short to keep more than 4-7 things together in one pile. But this list of yours is glorious and I envy it. You are a god, indeed.
So relieved that other people have not seen Titanic! I’m not necessarily against it, it’s just that by this point it’s too late- I can’t watch it now.
This this this. It’s become part of who I am now. Just like there’s a certain popular Dutch snack that I’ve never eaten, and I just feel I can’t give up on that pristine record of not-eating-it after 36 years, you know.
Is it hagelslag? I know that if I had the chance, I would be all over that shit.
Yes, exactly! So relived there are more of us.
I had sworn it off after being embarrassed that my parents forbid me from seeing it even though my entire 4th grade class was obsessed with it, ha!
I actually watched it recently, and ended up fast forwarding through the entire sinking part? I honestly thought it was pretty boring. You aren’t missing anything.
Fistbump of solidarity in the No Titanic Not Ever Club!!
I was surprised to see that I have seen at least half of her top 50 movies, but I haven’t even heard of most of the rest.
I have never seen Titanic, but for some reason the only DVD my parents owned for years after we got a DVD player was “Head of State,” the movie where Chris Rock is president and #269 on the list. I’ve seen that movie enough times to make up for all the movies I haven’t seen, probably.
I had a film studies professor who HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATED Titanic, and was fond of telling the story of how, upon exiting the theatre, he saw a line of people waiting for the next showing and shouted “THE BOAT SINKS!” at them.
When I was a kid back in pre-revolutionary times (or, you know, the 70s), I had an encyclopedia-like book about famous ship disasters (the Titanic, the Andrea Doria, etc.). I loved this book, but it gave me nightmares about being on sinking ships.
When Titanic came out, I thought about seeing it, but then had terrible nightmares about being on sinking ships, and that was the end of that. TeamNoTitanic.
I’ll just leave Marlon Brando’s thoughts on Bob Hope here:
“Bob Hope will go to the opening of a phone booth in a gas station in Anaheim, provided they have a camera and three people there. He’ll go to the opening of a market and receive an award. Get an award from Thom McAn for wearing their shoes. It’s pathetic. It’s a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He’s constantly filling himself up. He’s like a junkie — an applause junkie. “
It’s funny – that’s eerily similar to how I’d describe Jimmy Fallon.
Excellent roundup today, Nicole! I’m loving the piece on the relevance (or lack thereof) of Bob Hope (whose name I now see most frequently reduced to that conservative punchline about No Hope, No Jobs, No Cash and it seems so appropriate) and I’m just sinking my teeth into that second New Yorker article about Y-12.
Also, Sahaiʔa Talbot is THE CUTEST BABY I HAVE EVER SEEN and I really hope that they allow her to have her actual name on her birth certificate.
“When the sun just peeks through” is so poetic and pretty, too.
Also, Sahaiʔa Talbot is THE CUTEST BABY I HAVE EVER SEEN
I second this wholeheartedly.
Sahaiʔa made me think very much of that study that came out a year or two back about why we feel the urge to eat cute things. Because I very much want to eat her fat little cheeks while she giggles. Omg.
Yep, here we go: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-…
Oh my word, she’s adorable!
Cute baby, perfect name, stupid government 🙁
I want to admit that I HAVE seen Titanic! In the back of a pickup truck at a drive in full of rednecks. When Leo/Jack bites it,most everyone cheered! Literally everyone was drinking Boone’s Farm! This is the only correct way to see Titanic.
Titanic came out when I was twelve and desperate to be liked/part of the group, I most definitely have seen Titanic. I’d like to say that I was cynical enough to not be Into It for real and that my reaction to it was just going along with the crowd, but I 100% sobbed the whole time both times I saw it and thought it was amazing.
You and I are the same age. I saw Titanic… three or four times in the theater, I think? I LOVED it. A few years ago they re-released it, so I went to see it again, and I bawled my eyes out, again. Is it a cool thing not to have seen Titanic? I don’t even care.
I had A Thing for Leo, so I definitely also saw Titanic at least 3 times in theaters.
Yes. The 12-year-old part of my heart will always have a soft spot for Leo, even though he has been… less appealing as of late.
I was SO in love with Leo as a 13 year old (i.e. when Titanic came out). The bloom is off that particular rose, indeed, though I do randomly remember his birthday (11/11). My second big crush (Pacey) is still really cute, thankfully.
Oh god, me too. I used to have pictures of him in my freshman locker. I don’t remember how I learned his birthday, but the fact that it was one day off my own birthday was a sign that we were MEANT to be together. And that is why every year, though my feelings have long since faded, I think, “It’s nearly my birthday… and Leonardo DiCaprio’s!”
yup, dude did NOT age well, but his beauty as a young man does kind of make me understand Greek mythology a little more. (Why keep abducting teen boys? Aren’t teen boys kind of spotty and gross?)
In the 3rd grade I once cut a photo of Leo out of the newspaper and brought it to school (so I could stare at it longingly during recess? idek) and a boy took it from me, which upset me so much I started crying. The teacher asked me what was wrong and I was sure that telling the truth would make me look like even more of a dweeb, so I sobbed out something about my knee hurting.
I saw it in the theater as part of my friend’s 13th birthday party (I was still 12, so it felt quite daring to go to a PG-13 movie). We all dutifully fawned over Leo and were SCANDALIZED by Kate Winslet’s boobs.
The two little old people who cuddled up in bed together resigned to die and the band deciding to play to the end? That got me, not gonna lie. I do have human feelings! In a heavily engraved lead box, in an underwater cave, stolen from a room full of sad children and never to be opened by mortal hands. But they do exist.
Not so much sympathy for King Of the World Leonardo DiCaprio, who at that point I only knew from Critters 3 (his best work, IMHO).
Those were the two things that made me cry, too. Although one of my friends loved Leo so much and was so sad after Titanic that she didn’t sleep for days. It takes all kinds…
I was a year or 2 older and I remember that all the girls in my history class that year fought over who got to shoehorn Titanic into whatever our assignment was for the week. The poor teacher was a man very close to retiring and he had no idea why we all hated each other.
I saw Titantic when I was 10 or 11, I think. I was already hated by the in-group at my school, but I begged my dad to take me to it. Possibly because I didn’t see it with a group, I actually was really bored by the whole love story part, and thought they should have gotten to the boat sinking faster. (I may not have been old enough to appreciate tragic love stories: I was old enough that I had stopped running out of the room screaming whenever there was a kissing scene on Saved by the Bell, but just barely.)
that’s funny, because I think it gets boring once the boat starts sinking. But I was also 14 or 15 when I saw it and generally feel that the beauty of an extended fight scene is that it gives you the opportunity to go to the bathroom or refill your snacks.
That’s how I feel now for sure. At the time I think I was just happy to see an end to all the kissing. 😉
I saw it eight times in theatres because I was 10 when it came out and had 90% female family members and friends and also my dad and brother were/are obsessed with it.
Actually, I’ve seen it nine times in theatres, because my sister and her friend talked me into taking them when it was re-released a couple years ago.
I. Do not like that film.
I also saw it 8 times in theaters because I was 13 and there was nothing else to do. And all my friends were obsessed with the movie and/or Leo DiCaprio, which gave me a great excuse to go see Kate Winslet’s boobs. Actually, Titanic was pretty great for letting me pretend to be one of the cool straight kids!
Yeah, I was too young for a crush on an actress and I never 100% got the Leo thing (to the extent that I did, my Leo-crush movie was Man in the Iron Mask because I loved over-the-top historical adventure movies and they hadn’t made The Count of Monte Cristo yet).
But as an adult I fully appreciate Kate Winslet in that movie.
I was thirteen, and I mainly saw it because a) I love historical movies and b) I was super into the Titanic as a kid (like, I wanted to be friends with Robert Ballard and go in the submersible to see it), but also because I felt like I had to because so many of the girls at school were Super Into Leo for a reason I couldn’t understand.
After seeing it, I still didn’t understand why everyone was into Leo, but mostly because Kate Winslet was super pretty and why do I feel awkward and uncomfortable watching the drawing scene, send help?
i was also around 12, and saw Titanic at my friends combination movie theater/sleepover party. i totally cried at the end, buuut was also aware that the main plotline was kind of trite and leo di did NOTHING for me.
i was at the periphery of said friend group and all friend groups, so i kept my mouth shut and went along with the rest post movie. this became increasingly annoying at the post-movie sleepover when they all went on about the tiny shiny lead (my platonic ideal at 12 was Han Solo…not Harrison Ford but Han Solo and i….was not going to tell them that.)
so i have a mixed relationship with that movie is what i’m saying.
I might break my rule for this, should this exact constellation of conditions ever arise.
When I saw Titanic, it was at a crappy movie theater in my town, with my parents, my best friend, her brother, and their parents. About halfway (maybe? I am short on details of where exactly in the film this took place) through, the film (the actual film reel) caught on fire. You could see the flames on the screen. The audience grew quiet, until my Dad quipped, “Well, at least they have enough water to put it out!”
I remember being THRILLED when I got the two-tape VHS set of Titanic for my birthday! It was a simpler time.
Controversial opinion: The sinking part is still good! Though the jack and rose part less so.
They did the sinking so well that Titanic is a pretty decent film if you skip the first half.
LOVED the sinking part. I know it’s a cliche but when that dude hits the propeller I can’t not laugh. Yes a human being is dying (fictionally speaking and kind of realistically speaking since the Titanic did happen so maybe that happened IRL), and that’s not nice but the noise, the noise!
That birth/twitter story was horrendous.
At first I was uneasy about it, because I think it could encourage people to use twitter in hospitals which could cause a problem as care would be shifted to the people who make the biggest noise instead of the people who need it most.
* BUT * when I finished reading I think there is a greater good here to direct more attention to hospitals that clearly dont have the resources to handle their patients. Stories like this justify why more anaesthiologists are needed and just how important it is to have more national conversations about healthcare.
Yeah, that was utterly terrifying. The whole idea of being in a hospital and basically being ignored is so, so frightening and given the state of medical care in the US, will probably come around more often. That said, how does a hospital not have enough staff to handle emergencies and births? Aren’t those, like, completely different parts of what a hospital does???
NYU Langone sounds like a terrible place to have a baby. The only thing that stuck in my mind about this article from last October http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/20…
was paragraph 9, where they sent a new dad home because “visitors weren’t allowed.” I know of no hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates new moms from their partners, I couldn’t even believe that’s a thing. I read that article 5 months ago and I still think that’s the scandalous part, not the silly “baby-friendly” certification.
The picture of Abbi and Ilana wearing the same sweatshirt is definitely my sexuality.
How can a government acknowledge a language as official in its territory but then turn around and say you’re not allowed to use that language on basic government-provided things like birth certificates and health cards?
If I’m reading correctly, it’s been recognized since 1999, right? Surely in that time SOMEONE has had to do business that required the use of a non-Roman character. I’m just surprised this hasn’t been sorted yet. And it grated on me that the official referred to it as a “non-standard diacritic.” It’s non-standard in the Roman alphabet, but it’s an actual letter in the Chipewyan language.
Also– I thought a glottal stop could be represented by an apostrophe? Am I just confused about linguistics? Does the Canadian government not use apostrophes?
In BC when they added the Salish names of places to road signs along the Sea to Sky for the Olympics they used the number 7 to represent glottal stops. Not sure how or why it was chosen, but at least one Canadian government entity decided that was how to address glottal stops.
Oh! I’ve been wondering what the 7 represented since driving through there last summer! But apparently not wondering enough to google it…
My guess would be that they picked 7 because it’s kind of roughly sort of the same shape as a glottal stop, and because they were too cheap to get a glottal stop designed in the same font. Or maybe it didn’t occur to them; I wouldn’t think getting a glottal stop created would be that expensive, on the scale of expenses incurred while preparing for an Olympics.
Interesting! Arabic speakers, when writing Arabic in the Latin alphabet, use numbers to represent sounds that don’t have letters to represent them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
In some languages, glottal stops can be transliterated to apostrophes (Arabic, for example), but the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a glottal stop is “ʔ,” and so languages that have come into wider written use more recently (like Chipewyan/Dene) tend to use that.
In Hawaiian, the letter representing a glottal stop looks very similar to an apostrophe, so that might be what you are thinking of.
I believe technically the apostrophes and ʔ are different types of glottal sounds as I know Tsimshian uses both at different times. Although in Carrier I think the apostrophe means something different.
That is indeed a very common thing, though if the Chipewyan community has a convention of using an IPA glottal stop instead (I don’t know if they do), I can certainly see how an apostrophe might not be satisfactory. Orthography can get SUPER political and contentious.
The California government doesn’t use apostrophes. In fact, you can’t even name your child something with a tilde or accent mark in it. I don’t know if the Canadian government is that stupid, but it could be.
~*~CANADA~*~
Srsly tho the amount of lip-service we pay to our indigenous peoples while not, y’know, actually doing anything to help them or combat the horrific amount of racism here is pretty impressive.*
*depressing**
**soul-crushing
Oh Canada, our home on Native land!
(I had a t-shirt with that slogan on it when I was a teenager, and when I wore it to high school, three separate classmates stopped me in the hall to tell me how “disgusting” I was for wearing it. ~*~CANADA~*~)
not to worry, I have pretty much decided I will only work at companies where 1/3 of the employees share my name. Also, no one else understands me or my borderline-unhealthy obsession with inbox maintenance. To whom else would I go??
<3 <3 I love you and I’m so glad you’re back.
If you ever decide to write an FAQ or 101 on how to inbox, I will gratefully send it to all of my colleagues who ask the same question many times because they don’t know how to search for older messages, or who ask me questions I’ve just answered by email because they only read subject lines and not messages.
Your dedication to inbox maintenance is admirable and possibly even heroic.
I just label/archive EVERYTHING, and keep only pressing action items in the inbox. I kind of chuckled when Gmail Inbox came out and everyone invited me to use it.
Once I did not hire a man after he remarked in our interview that he had 2304 emails in his Inbox.
“How do you find anything?”
“Oh, I just search”
This filled me with horror.
I get flustered if I have to scroll down to see all the emails in my inbox, let alone go to another page of fifty.
The ‘send and archive’ button is your friend, people. Also, labeling
I got anxiety just reading that
Searching is how I work too. I usually dump my work inbox into an archive folder every year or so. I never remove from my inbox for my personal emails, search all the way.
Edit: I work in IT, so honing my Google-fu is basically half my job anyway. Why not use those search skills 🙂
I agreed. I used to come up with elaborate filing systems, only to realize how amazing it was to type in a few keywords and come up with the right e-mail.
Of course, my job allows for easy e-mail searches, as we work with a lot of acronyms and countries.
I’m glad I’m not the only one! I try to keep my “unread” count low-to-zero, especially at work, but if I put stuff in folders, then I just have to search all the folders instead of my inbox.
Yep, this is what I do, and I’m way better at finding old emails than many of my colleagues who use some kind of filing system because they don’t know how to search.
I would absolutely not own an iPhone if I had to see that little icon with a red “12,563” button hovering over it. Having more than 3 items in my personal inbox, or 15 in my work inbox, is a sure sign that I am in over my head and possibly drowning and need to take a “get it together” break/day/week.
Oh I absolutely can’t have any unread numbers there (or notification numbers for any app), must have all emails read.
Ditto. Sometimes I get an email that will take more time to read than I currently have, so I open it (“read” it) and star it to go back to later.
LOLOL I HAVE 54,000
I love any and all Broad City articles but OMG that ending bit about the woman who runs up to them and starts manhandling them and pitching them stuff? I had to skip over half of it, it made me so uncomfortable. Clearly I could never be famous, because if someone did that to me, I’d probably yell at them and then run away.
Pitching them weird racist bits! Lady stoppppp.
Right?? I was like “ugh, come on, why did we have to end on such a gross note?”
Jazmine’s list is great and I’m glad I’m not the only one who stopped watching the Harry Potter movies early on and never looked back. I actually stopped after Chamber of Secrets but then some friends made me watch Deathly Hallows Pt 1 so it balances.
Unrelated, but relevant to some of your interests: Here is a pretty great article about sexism and the industry of eating, which makes excellent points and is well written. The whole “controversey” over the Piglet review in question has had really leveled, well-thought-out discussion the whole way through, which I feel is kind of rare for a discussion of sexism on the internet.
That is really good (and funny! I’m so used to food writing where I end up scrolling over some purple prose about someone’s aspirational life for, like, 5 minutes before arriving at the recipe that it’s refreshing).
Although I take umbrage at this bit: “It’s disingenuous for Thorisson to adopt the position that her recipes are all that matters, considering that the everything-else aspect of her book is intentionally and expertly constructed to be its real allure — and it’s likely the angle that landed her the book deal in the first place. The world already has lots of recipes for cherry clafoutis. No one wants to read A Kitchen in Secaucus.”
I would personally read the hell out of “A Kitchen in Secaucus.”
that article is a great lesson in seeing not-very-visible sexism. like, even as someone who’s pretty attuned to sexist bullshit, I’d find it hard to articulate what was wrong in that situation.
The part about why cookbooks are still selling so well is really interesting too, because I looooove cookbooks even though there’s not really any practical need for them. I love how it looks having a huge row of them in my kitchen and when I get a new one I’ll sit and read the whole thing straight through, especially if it’s an Ottolenghi. And I don’t really like when food blogs have lengthy intros and tons of pictures, so it’s odd that I love the same thing in books.
One of my (many) goals in life is to see that animated versions of the Harry Potter books get made. I just feel like hiring child actors, and hoping that they turned out for the best, was such a poor judgement call, and the later movies are substantially weaker as a result.
I love those pacifist nuns, oh my gosh.
I have no idea what it would be like to watch that few movies, I have seen literally 45% of the things on the list, and that is still only a quarter of the movies I’ve seen in my life, which I know because I watch so many movies and then obsessively document all of it.
(And, frankly, to me it feels like I don’t even watch that many new movies, because I watch TV shows so much more often than I watch movies, and half the time I watch a movie it’s an old favorite or something that my roommate who has better things to do with her life hasn’t seen yet.)
this really feels like one of those “there are two kinds of people…” things. I cannot fathom having seen that many movies. Who has the time?! (Like, logically, I know I have the time because I spend leisure time on other things and I could spend it on movies. But I never do!)
Of course, one of the primary joys of belonging to the No Movie sector of humanity is trolling the Movie people by saying “No, I haven’t seen ____. And I probably never will.” Some of them get so adorably mad!
“Have you seen–” “No.” “But you’d –” “No.”
Movies require you to plan to stay in one place for like two hours. What? Books are so much more forgiving.
haha and then I DO stay in one place for like two hours, if the book is any good.
Well, many of the movies on the list came out in the ’90s, so it’s not like I sat down and thought, “These would be great to watch!” They weren’t great to watch. I was just 10.
I know right? I’m tempted to copy that list into a text editor to find out how many I have seen, it is probably most of them…
Ok I had to do it: I’ve seen 364 movies on that list. Also I call shenanigans as there were a ton of repeats (except for Titanic being listed like 10 times, which I’m sure was intentional :P)
I did do it — I have seen 450, but that is counting all ten Titanics.
A bunch of these are on my ‘to watch soon’ list as well, basically as soon as Netflix sends me the DVD.
obsessively documenting movies! yes!
i started last year in a daily journal writing down every single movie I watch. I got tired of asking “wait, have I seen this one yet???” or not being able to remember whether I even liked it. since I mostly use WatchTCM, it’s very useful. a lot of old movies have titles or synopses that have very little to do with the actual movie (or the plot everyone talks about is only in the last thirty minutes or something)
I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet with a list of new movies I watch and when I watch them, with a little one-sentence review to help me remember if I liked them, but then THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR ME and I went and I tried to create (using that list and Wikipedia articles of what movies were released in what years and my memory for weird indie films and foreign films and TV movies) a list of literally everything I’ve ever seen. I…have a serious list-making problem.
Thanks for linking to the Gerry Adams article. That’s a story that will never end, I think.
Oof. This is a hard piece to read, but it’s really, really good–regarding how awful fraternities have become. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/…
But what happened to the kid with the bottle rocket in his ass? Inquiring minds want to know.
At least Bob Hope was on the Muppet Show. I envy him that.
If anyone is following the Todd Willingham case (he was a very likely innocent man put to death for the supposed murder of his 3 toddlers in a 1991 Texas house fire, and I found out about it from a New Yorker link Nicole posted in this here roundup some months ago), there is a new development:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/letter-fro…
A letter which reinforces what was basically already known, which is that the prosecutor made a deal to lighten Willingham’s cellmate’s sentence in exchange for testimony against him.
Interesting! Arabic speakers, when writing Arabic in the Latin alphabet, use numbers to represent sounds that don't have letters to represent them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
The HOW (I have over 54,000 unread emails, and I've had my account since 2004) is that I put myself on mailing lists ("yeah sure send me a monthly email newsletter about your yarn store/yoga studio/clothing sales") all the time, and then one summer I didn't have internet access for MONTHS (and this was pre-smartphone) and only spotty internet access for another year and a half, and they just piled up, and I never went back and deleted them all. Gmail doesn't care how many emails I have. So now when I check my email, I'll read only the ones I find interesting, star things that are important, and ignore the rest, because I got in the habit when I had pretty much no internet access, despite finally getting my own damn laptop in late 2008 and having a smartphone for over two years.
The search function is so good it's never been a problem. And it's just not worth the time and effort it would take at this point to delete most of them and not accidentally delete something important.
It does horrify people who catch a glimpse of my phone's screen. So, that's worth a little comedy.
so you think i should watch it then
100%
I mean, there's a reason it's part of the canon.
haha and then I DO stay in one place for like two hours, if the book is any good.