On The Videogame Artiste
@Leon Tchotchke You know what, though? Braid isn't really a great game at all. It's just a modesty clever take on Mario with pretty art and some literary pretenses; its significance and artistic value have been blown way, way out of proportion.
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On How To Write The Great American Novel
re: #7—I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume is pretty goddamn good
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On Thirty Songs Named For People Named Jane, In Order
Better than at least 28 of these: Dolly Mixture's "How Come You're Such a Hit with the Boys, Jane?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzu5AXErRE
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On Three Rotten Classic Books I Never Want to See Again
this idiot is a published novelist? what a world.
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On What's Invisible At Harvard: A Conversation
@Ellie It's actually pretty reasonable to assume that anyone who went to a "good" school comes from a wealthy background. From a NYT piece earlier this year: "When we spoke recently, [Amherst President Anthony Marx] mentioned a Georgetown University study of the class of 2010 at the country’s 193 most selective colleges. As entering freshmen, only 15 percent of students came from the bottom half of the income distribution. Sixty-seven percent came from the highest-earning fourth of the distribution. These statistics mean that on many campuses affluent students outnumber middle-class students."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/economy/25leonhardt.html?pagewanted=all
(oh, I swore I'd never register. I SWORE! sigh)
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On Michael Fassbender Does An Excellent Robot
@barnhouse The marketing campaign, or the film itself?