After a one-week hiatus, it’s time for some Unrequired Reading! Who’s with me?
This piece by A.O. Scott on Generation X’s midlife crisis was the most entertaining thing I read last week.
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I’ve long believed that Dave Bliss is one of the few people in college sports whom one can confidently say is evil. Apparently, a prep school in Texas disagrees.
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How HBO got that way. (c.2006, so it doesn’t explore how HBO has sorta lost its way.)
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Matt Zoller Seitz on why superhero movies suck, and Tom Spurgeon’s follow-up on the topic. (And check out Tom’s obit for Frank Frazetta.)
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Try “Seattle’s Boringest.”
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Daniel Libeskind: Architect. Accordion player.
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Daniel Snyder: Redskins owner. Amusement park destroyer.
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I need to get back to formulating my time-release placebo.
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Ric Burns has a new documentary out?
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