I’ve always loved Marvin Harrison for great performances and his lack of showboating, but how awesome would it be if he turned out to be the most badass mo’fo’ in the NFL? Amy thinks it’d be like that SNL skit about Neil Diamond.
Unrequired Reading: May 2, 2008
It’s Friday, dear readers! Time for all sorts of oddball links I didn’t have time/motivation to write about!
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Sun Roth
Today’s edition of the New York Sun’s Arts+ section continues to defend its title as Official Newspaper of Gil Roth (and several other Roths, as seen in #s 1 and 2):
- Roth Time Redux, discussing the impact of Dieter Roth,
- a new exhibition on Philip Guston, with a shout-out to Philip Roth,
- MoMA’s screening of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West,
- Daphne Merkin reviewing a book on the history of crazy-ass women, and
- and an absolute smackdown of Benny Morris’ version of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even better: my coworkers believe the Sun must be “too conservative,” so they avoid reading it in the lunchroom, leaving me a pristine copy! However, since the owner of our company canceled our subscription to the NYTimes, which he believes is “too liberal,” the only other choices are the Wall Street Journal and the NYPost. . .
(BONUS! Today’s Sun also has a John Stossel op-ed piece on why the FAA’s inspections of airlines (and governmental inspections in general) are useless at best.)
Steel cage match
Your morning moment of Rufus:
Kin and Kindle
Once upon a time, Robin Williams said, “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money.” This week I bought a Kindle
(And it’s proof that I’m a tremendous geek, but it’s not like we needed more of that.)
Click on the image for pictures from the unboxening:
That’s an excerpt from Chelsea Handler’s new book, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea
Anyway, I’ll play around with this thing for a while and report back. If it manages to become a book-version of the iPod, I’ll be a happy man. This will be predicated on how comfortable I get with reading off an e-ink screen like this, and how insecure I get at not having “the actual book” in my hands.
(Man, it sure is an awful piece of design. Makes you realize how amazing Apple is with this sorta thing.)
Undercover Blocker
In the tradition of the cassette guy whom I used to buy music from in Philly, the Kennedy Fried Chicken that Dad & I used to hit in Paterson, and, of course, McDowell’s, it looks like some black people have been sticking it to The Man by genetically bootlegging beta blockers.
Unrequired Reading: April 25, 2008
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Grand
Mom headed home to St. Louis yesterday, but before her departure, she posed for a couple of pix with her four-legged grandchild. Enjoy!
Happy Shakespeare Day!
I don’t have any traditional activity to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, but here’s a post from Ron Rosenbaum with a ton of suggestions about Shakespeare material (websites, books, movies).
I really enjoyed his book on Shakespeare scholarship. You oughtta read it, even though the paperback edition
It’s yo’ Erf’ Day
Happy Earth Day, everybody! To celebrate, my mom is going to fly home to St. Louis on a half-empty jet, Amy’s going to cook only with endangered species, and I’m going to run the air conditioning with the windows open!
Okay, only one of those is true, but I needed a lead in for the item that Amazon just added to my list of ironic recommendations: Fossil Fuel