September 2011
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“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates...”
– Mindy Kaling lays out a brilliant case for how much You’ve Got Mail we’re gonna start watching in this house.
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“To me, however, the greatest blessing is that we do not know whether it is...”
– Dave Yoder in our Q&A on The Search for the Lost Da Vinci, an incredibly ambitious project with an amazing story (literally a search for a lost Leonardo masterpiece, The Battle of Anghiari). (via kickstarter)
You have to watch the video for this project. It’s a truly thrilling story. I...
that also reminds me of the time,
in high school, when my friend Will and I spent all day at a police academy somewhere just outside of Tallahassee, helping train SWAT team people (members? officers?) in hostage negotiation. We were chosen by our drama teacher, who got the call because the law enforcement people were looking for theater kids to act out all of the different scenarios. This, in retrospect, is insane.
We actually...
What should you do if someone puts a gun to your... →
This reminds me of the best part of a Mary Gaitskill story that was in the New Yorker earlier this year:
“Turn right or you die!” She unbuckled her seat belt and turned to face me. “I’m ready,” she said. She leaned back and gripped the steering wheel with one hand, as if to steady herself. With her free hand, she tapped herself between the eyes—bright, hot blue, rimmed with red. “Put it here,”...
Yesterday I got invited to the Facebook Group for my high school 10-year reunion. It’s not til next year but the planning begins now. I wish I could share this page, comment by comment, profile picture by profile picture, with all of you, but that would be terrible/too easy/I’m afraid if I am too cruel people won’t like me.
Anyway the most jarring recollection in all this is...
