Month: November 2018
November 24, 2018
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The Pre-Internet Phenomenon of Boys Hiding Their Porn in the Woods – MEL Magazine
“I grew up in a New Jersey suburb called Basking Ridge , so named, we were told in elementary school, by the British Presbyterians who bought — cough — the land…”
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The Apophenic Machine — Real Life
“Image: Detail from The Test by David Delruelle. Think of a network graph. A simple one with just a few nodes and connecting lines spidering out. It makes…”
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The Most Misread Poem in America
“Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. Frost in 1913. From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem…”
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua
“An artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. Observations of…”
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Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
“Supported by The New Health Care They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise. Standing at a desk may offer some conveniences, but it’s not a…”
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“Introspective is the odd album out from Pet Shop Boys’ fabled “imperial phase”. It’s also, says David Bennun, the best thing they ever did Here’s a thing I…”
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The pop culture references that separate millennials from baby boomers
“Have you heard of Post Malone? If so, you probably aren’t a baby boomer. According to data collected by the polling company YouGov, only 17% of US baby boomers,…”
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In honour of director Nic Roeg who died today at 90.
November 21, 2018
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Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935, Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke)
I get nostalgic for times long before I was born.
November 18, 2018
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2010 (1984, Peter Hyams)
Man, this really didn’t age well. Almost everything predictive about it is dramatically wrong.
November 17, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh)
The acting, directing, cinematography – most everything about this movie was ace. But I wasn’t really happy with the horrible racist people being redeemed. It felt like the wrong year for that.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
This was loads of fun. Anthologies are generally hit and miss, but I liked every one of these old-timey western stories. And Tom Waits as the old prospector was an absolute stunner.
I keep wanting to call it The Ballad of Lester Scruggs though, because Foggy Mountain Boys.
November 13, 2018
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The Last Word On Nothing | On Food Pills And Legacy
“What if instead of eating three meals each day (plus snacks, if you’re me) we just popped pills and moved along with our lives. Food pills were once a staple of…”
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Logan Lucky (2017, Steven Soderbergh)
Dumb people heist movies are a nice antidote to super-genius heist movies. Soderbergh does both well. This started out amazing but lost it’s way toward the end.
