April 2010
Given my fairly active trust in The Guardian, this piece of April Fool’s brilliance caught me completely by surprise.
March 2010
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“A lot of people travel to New York because they want to see the beaches.” Keep up the great work, local news! If you need me, I’ll be doing laps on the High Line.
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WatchRachel Maddow: ‘Senator Brown, You Need To Stop Lying’
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As people in the highlands chopped down much of Haiti’s forests over the years, that unleashed a huge amount of sediment that has washed down the rivers and into the coastal base, actually building up deltas composed of loose and weak dirt. Gulick says people have built homes there.
Dr. GULICK: In places where the houses are built near where the small rivers are coming out or built onto...
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Russia has eliminated two time zones.
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Pedro Almodóvar has a blog.
(For those of you I know in Spain who’ve probably known about this for a long, long time — cállate!)
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“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”
– Mario Vargas Llosa. (h/t Frank Wilson.)
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Jean-Luc Godard’s Homage to Eric Rohmer. h/t Mr. Silliman.
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buongiorno:
“Someday Baby” - Feist
This is...
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Lindsay Beyerstein has compiled a list of investigative reporting resources:
1. OpenSecrets.org by the Center for Responsive Politics -Donor lookup (donations to federal elections >$250), search by name, by town, by zipcode, by employer
-Example: Last week, I was reporting on Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker and Sen. Lamar Alexander who were pledging to stop the FAA re-authorization bill over a side...
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Haiti, 70 days later →
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Some Haiti Tweets:
Mar. 18th: in #Haiti, food is key not just to survival, but also to the morale of the displaced and aid workers. Read Alex Renton: http://bit.ly/c9Rzu1
Yesterday:
#Haiti must redevelop its agricultural industry. take a look. http://bit.ly/9dWabP
via the NYT: “… what [the Hatian women] really need are shelters from sexual violence, and adequate policing. Haiti has neither, Amnesty...
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Joe Wong killed it at the Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner. Here’s what Joe had to say about the experience himself: DC is such an epicenter of power and press. Even buildings in DC have newspaper terms, columns, posts, and poles. I did the sound check in the morning, then everyone had to leave for a 3 hour security sweep of the building. Later I went to the VIP pre-dinner party...
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Help Davis Square Get a Bookstore.
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Brown/Maddow.
For those wondering, here’s what Brown misrepresented.
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One way to know a sentence isn't going to end...
“Sources said that Netanyahu failed to impress Obama with a flow chart … “
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The AV Club offers a “Herzog Primer.”
“Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered.”
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Creeping Through the Criterion: Ivan's Childhood.
After coming to the belated realization that the man who created Solaris and Andrei Rubelev were one and the same, I figured I’d have to start to close the gap, and what better place than this — Ivan’s Childhood — featuring some of the best cinematography I’ve seen. It is always a pleasure to see creativity flex its muscles. (Did I mention that this was the film I...
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Coraline and Crazy Heart.
My two takeaways from Crazy Heart were this — that Jeff Bridges could act (checking the card the woman gave him and his watch), and that everyone’s acting in the film significantly outpaced the writing.
Coraline was astonishingly bad, and I was amazed to see a film take its cues from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. (I’m looking at you, Navi.)
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“It’s easy to tell a story largely in terms of day-to-day events and process, and...”
– Quote of the Day — via Stephen Walt.
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NPR Journalists Buy A Toxic Asset Just to Watch It Die.
I KNEW IT.
I KNEW IT:
My guess on where Lost is going is that we will be presented with an alternative theory of why God isn’t in day-to-day life — he has to keep the devil on the island.
Hey! Photographers!
Polaroids are coming back.
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Attention Boston/Somerville/Cambridge Residents:
Weatherization Barnraising
Saturday, April 10th 12:30-5:00 p.m.
Cambridge YWCA Emergency Family Shelter 3 Bigelow Street, Cambridge
Pitch in to help 10 homeless families who live at the shelter Lower vast energy bills for the shelter so it can help the families more Learn skills that can save you $$ at home Fight climate change Share food & celebrate after a job well done No skills...
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To expand upon some of what I posted yesterday (let alone the short summary I posted a while back), I wanted to add this to the mix —
The numbers are impossible to ignore. More than 30 million additional people will have insurance; even those with sizable deductibles will have protection from the kind of ruinous financial liabilities they face now. There is no public plan — for now!...
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