On Best Movie Closing Songs, In Order
@rj77 "Just in Time" (Nina Simone) from Before Sunset
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On House That Looks Like Hitler: The Story Behind The Story
Net "frenzy"? Net furor, surely.
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On 41 Movie Remakes That Would Destroy What Remains Of My Youth, In Order Of Heartbreak
My cousins and I made "Goonies 2" in one afternoon on summer vacation when I was maybe 7. Don't know if that counts. If so, I apologize.
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On The People
This reminds me of something Don DeLillo said recently:
"...for some years now I think the true American religion has been 'the American People.' The term quickly developed an aura of sanctity and inviolability. First used mainly by politicians at nominating conventions and in inaugural speeches, the phrase became a mainstay of news broadcasts and other more or less nonpartisan occasions. All the reverence once invested in the name of God was transferred to an entity safely defined as you and me. But do we still exist? Does the phrase still soar over the airwaves? Or are the American People dead and buried? It seems the case, more than ever, that there are only factions, movements, sects, splinter groups, and deeply aggrieved individual voices. The media absorbs it all."
Happy election day everyone!
Source: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5278/prmID/1376
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On The Miami Heat (And The Rest Of The NBA) Start Playing Tonight
Dwyane Wade is definitely Gordie Lachance.
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On Alleged Moral and Sexual Crisis at Yale to Be Explained via Memoir in 2012
So he's applying to be Ross Douthat? I didn't realize there was an opening.
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On Letter from Los Angeles: A Conference on Hipsters Was Held
Ironically, re: Josh's point about race, Luc Sante says the word "hipster" was once applied to people known for, among other things, "having a substantial number of friends whose race is different from" their own.
But the term became something else, he says, probably in the 1980s:
"Hunting esoteric cultural kicks turned into connoisseurship; possession of items distinguished chiefly by their obscurity at once inflated the desirability of those items to others and became tantamount to having produced those items oneself."
http://ekotodi.blogspot.com/2007/12/sub-culture.html
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On John Edgar Wideman On The Sadness Of Emptiness
I was just talking the other day to someone who worked at a magazine in New York in the '80s and '90s and who hailed cabs for one of the magazine's (somewhat well-known, as it happens) black contributors any time he stopped by the office. He waited a long time before asking her to do so the first time, but eventually it became the standard routine.
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On "Outsourced": The Reviews Are In, and They are Sweary!
The definitive takedown of the "What do you think?" newsmedia is by Mitchell and Webb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-rkzJ6yZw
"So a massive and unstoppable alien attack threatens the earth. What's your reaction? Are you affected by the end of civilization as we know it? What's your perspective? Maybe you live on earth -- or know someone who does."
Seriously, watch it, it's hilarious (and even better in the context of the whole episode, because it's a Monty Python-style running gag woven throughout).
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On Two Important New Ebooks: Alex Pareene on Romney--and Kitty Glitter Strikes Again
Pretty sure Mitt and Ann left Belmont several years ago.