December 2007
25 posts
Devin the Dude's "What a Job," one of my fav.s of... →
The real fellowship of the ring
How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’ all-night argument about God paved the way for both “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Chronicles of Narnia.” From Salon.com: On a warm September night in 1931, three men went for an after-dinner walk on the grounds of Magdalen College, part of Oxford University. They took a stroll on Addison’s Walk, a beautiful tree-shaded path...
Murakami's new book: What I Talk About When I Talk...
From The Literary Saloon: There’s already quite a bit of information available about the forthcoming Murakami Haruki work, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Philip Gabriel’s translation of 走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること), and De papieren man pointed us to some of it — notably the DuMont publicity page for the German edition, which offers a description of the book — and...
Seeing with tongues →
“The tongue, an organ of taste and touch, may seem like an unlikely substitute for the eyes. After all, it’s usually hidden inside the mouth, insensitive to light, and not connected to optic nerves. However, a growing body of research indicates that the tongue may in fact be the second-best place on the body for receiving visual information from the world and transmitting it to the...
Is listening to classical music still important? →
“if a tree falls in the forest, you might never bone the bitch if u dont holler.”
– messageboard dude
“You can not take the hilarious black guy from the office. Stanley is part of...”
– Michael (Steve Carell), after learning that Stanley might change branches on The Office.
The year's top 10 science and tech stories.
From Slate: 1. Cellular rejuvenation. Say goodbye to the stem-cell war. In November, two research teams announced that they had turned regular body cells into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells just by injecting four genes. Everyone agrees this is better than conventional embryonic stem-cell derivation or cloning: It’s easier, avoids the human egg shortage, kills no embryos, is eligible...
Current work out jams: The Rub x Fools Gold Mix →
The Rise of the Starchitect
From The New Criterion: It will be objected that there have always been architectural celebrities. Long before Gehry appeared as himself in the television series “The Simpsons,” Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead and was the subject of a Simon and Garfunkel song. And before Wright there was Stanford White, whose life, loves, and death were so outrageous that even...
“Once I am officially regional manager, my first order of business will be to...”
– DWIGHT (RAINN WILSON), ON THE OFFICE
The Death of High Fidelity
In today’s Rolling Stone: David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he’s not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts...
“Among the most memorable moments in theater this year: “Sitting in the...”
– Michael Dale of BroadwayWorld.com
“Scientists say because of global warming they expect the world’s oceans to...”
– Conan O’Brien
An attack on a political rally kills Pakistani... →
Jay-Z steps down as president of Def Jam →
