October 2010
16 posts
Updike on Grandmaster N.
“If ‘Transparent Things’ is a splintered hand-mirror, and ‘Ada’ cotton-candy spun to the size of sunset cumulus, ‘Look at the Harlequins!’ is a brown briefcase, as full of compartments as a magician’s sleeve and lovingly thumbed to a scuff-colored limpness.”
“For the fractious Tea Party movement, Beck—a former drive-time radio jockey, a recovering alcoholic, and a Mormon convert—has emerged as both a unifying figure and an intellectual guide. One opinion poll, released in July by Democracy Corps, showed that he is “the most highly regarded individual among Tea Party supporters,” seen not merely as an entertainer, like Rush Limbaugh, but as an...
WatchChris Potter’s twelve-minute (solo) solo on “All The Things You Are”.
Nabokov speaks
“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern and appreciate in the far-off times when every trifle of our plain everyday life will become exquisite and festive in its own right: the times when a man...
This country’s wasted on Jack and Koch. Two good ol’ boys buying drinks for the Party.
Delillo reads from a CIA memo. →
I’m always getting JLG mixed up with this new cat - JGL.
Tweet all about it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell
EPCOT Version 2.0: “We’re bringing historicity back!”
America: War-torn southland in 1872. Re-creation of the Mississippi and dinner on a riverboat. NO COLORED.
Germany: Interwar period. Guests will serve as subjects for a Grosz painting and be surprised they didn’t get quite the caricature they requested.
France: Storming of the Bastille will be re-enacted every day...
Louis Brandeis, 1911
I think we are in a position, after the experience of the last 20 years, to state two things: in the first place, that a corporation may well be too large to be the most efficient instrument of production and distribution, and, in the second place, whether it has exceeded the point of greatest economic efficiency or not, it may be too large to be tolerated among the people...
Anthony Lane
“No one who followed the deliquescence of the markets in 2008 will learn a jot from this film, even though it covers the dire days of early October. But then, when Gekko, at his brassiest, declares, “It’s not about the money, it’s about the game,” he is speaking for his creator, whose passion is not for the arcana of Wall Street, still less for any trace of life on...
Hey Langston..
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
A friend of mine actually had a dream that he brought out to play with in the backyard once – this is when we were much...
I'd like to see Teddy Roosevelt as a guest on FOX...
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results. First, every man will have a fair chance to make himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he...
