On Controversial "Sopranos" Finale Declared Officially Awesome
"You Know, I Used To Be Kind Of Cool Once" by Sting
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On What The Old-Fashioned Tells Us About Ourselves
@boyofdestiny it's likely you'd be be a fan of the "american trilogy" as well, which is 50/50 rye and apple brandy. the recipe.
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On The Shortening Lifespan of the American Movie Theater
@Niko Bellic I guess ultimately I just agree with happymisanthrope below—there are few experiences I enjoy more than going to the movies. I also prefer the quality of projected film (be it 16 mm or 35 mm or something more esoteric)—even on the relatively small screens at a place like Film Forum!—to watching a DVD. I have no illusions that I am going to convert anyone to the joys of moviegoing. I've had this conversation enough times now to realize it just comes down to personal preference. Regarding all the complaints centered around going to see a movie in a theater, I do experience these problems from time to time myself, but for whatever reason it just doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother other people.
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On The Shortening Lifespan of the American Movie Theater
Wow, people here sure dislike going to the movies! For what it's worth, Lane does acknowledge some of the problems with moviegoing:
“Can you blame us?” they will cry. “Who wants to pay for a sitter, drive twenty miles in the rain, and sit in a fug of vaporized popcorn butter next to people who are either auditioning for ‘Contagion 2’ or texting the Mahabharata to their second-best friends?” And the answer is: me.
Also for what it's worth, I agree with him. I like watching movies at home, but going to the theater is qualitatively different. (Per many of the comments in this thread, a lot of people feel it's not just different but worse.) There's nothing quite like the together/alone, communal/individual experience of going to the movies.
Manohla Dargis wrote about the same subject, more or less, this spring in the NYT. Generally I am not a fan of hers, but I did enjoy this piece: Out There in the Dark, All Alone
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On If You Like Boiled Eggs Here Is How Long You Should Boil Them For
@Astigmatism Here's my goto science-y take on egg boiling from J. Kenji López-Alt at Serious Eats.
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On Let's Say the 'New Yorker' iPad Publication Makes $58K a Week
this typically listless bit of reporting
Listless is right. Also: "Making money from digital content has frustrated publishers since the dawn of the Internet." The author of this has a very different conception of what the "dawn of the Internet" was like than I do.
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On Fixing 'Dune'
@DorothyMantooth Yes, this clip mostly made me want to rewatch Dune.
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On You Should See "Monument Ave."
If you like Boston crime movies you should also see The Friends of Eddie Coyle starring Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle from 1973.
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On "Read It Later": Republishing is Theft
FWIW, the way I use Instapaper means The Awl (or your publication of choice) will receive at least the same amount of ad revenue as before I used such tools, assuming ad revenue is based on impressions (is it?). My Awl reading process often goes like this:
* Open up The Awl homepage. Open up a whole bunch of articles in tabs. (With ads!)
* Read the short articles. Click the links.
* Hit the "read later" button on longer articles to send them over to Instapaper.
* Read articles later on my phone, usually on the subway.
Indeed this often results in ads loading not once, but twice, because if I think an article will have an interesting discussion in the comments, I will then load that page up again to read them. (All of these tools filter out the comments sections as well.) So The Awl is still getting my ad impressions. This would not be the case if I was reading their full, non-truncated feed in Google Reader or NetNewsWire. As @dudek notes, The Awl already publishes every article on the site with no ads right here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheAwl
One possible negative effect of using Instapaper vis a vis advertisers: obviously this sort of behavior affects metrics like time spent on site, etc.
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On Year's Best Rap Concert Poster Honors Maurice Sendak
Here's a larger image of the poster.