Post-Thanksgiving links! Enjoy the long weekend! I’m off to Philadelphia for my 20-year high-school reunion. (Or maybe not. I’m feeling lousy with the beginnings of the same cold that knocked my wife out last week, and it’d be dumb to run myself down and get heavy-duty sick right at the end of a week-long vacation. Grr.)
Todd Oldham vs. Old Navy: Finding the Jenny!
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Theodore Dalrymple vs. Le Corbusier: uncreative destruction.
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James Wood vs. Paul Auster: you’re too easy to parody. Oh, and you suck. (I don’t know how long this link will stay active, so check it out sooner rather than later.)
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Roger Ebert vs. Disney: maybe you should have hired a movie critic for your next-gen At the Movies.
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Congrats to NYC Grid for a year of photo-documenting the greatest city in the world!
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Bourgeois Surrender offers up some good book-to-film adaptations. (I don’t see The Orchid Thief on the list. . .)
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I guess the EU would’ve still been naming members to its Doomsday Committee by 2012.
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This encomia to the history of coffeehouses reminds me that I should get back to reading Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia
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