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and he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down

Stayed in sick on Sunday and watched movies. Hard Times: gritty drama about underground boxing in N’awrlins in the 30s. Starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Some excellent work here by Walter Hill in his directorial debut. Bronson’s poverty, loneliness and taciturn nature are established in the first 5 minutes with some fantastic shots and [...]

every interview, ever

(FADE IN ON: any office, any town, any time in the last twenty or next ten years) (CANDIDATE sits on overstuffed couch in lobby. He/she studies the resume that he/she knows by heart in a buff leather folder. Every few minutes, he/she looks at the company’s awards hanging on the wall. RECEPTIONIST avoids eye contact. [...]

I put your picture away

I have Mike to thank for pointing out Instapaper to me. Add the Instapaper button to your browser’s toolbar. Then, every time you see a webpage you’d like to read later, click the “Read Later” button. Instapaper will automagically save it to your account in a format that preserves the text and some of the [...]

I’m Michael Scarn and I’m here to say

I needed to kill 22 minutes while eating dinner last night, so I turned on The Office for the first time in years and watched “Threat Level Midnight.” Quick question: has the entire cast been paired off by now? Jim and Pam I knew about, but Michael’s apparently made good on his crush with the [...]

now you do what they told you, now you’re under control

AJAX: Brutal melodrama in an engaging new translation, with a staging that works as often as it doesn’t. The ancient Greek tragedies struggle for a modern audience. The themes that Sophocles and Euripides wrote about – the helplessness of humans before the gods; submission to law as a virtue – don’t resonate with modern audiences.* [...]

we gon’ find you, we gon’ find you

I’m frankly and legitimately torn on the dustup in Wisconsin. On the one hand, as an economist I dislike cartels. Cartels band together to raise the price of their product, using intimidation to keep members from breaking away. We wouldn’t cheer if a group of airlines teamed up to inflate the price of a plane [...]

I’ll cut your little heart out, ’cause you made me cry

I’m growing less fond of political labels for several reasons: somewhat due to the growing similarities between the Ruling and Opposition parties; somewhat due to laziness. But the recent dust-up over Nir Rosen illustrates why they’re no longer useful. Following news reports that a CBS news reporter had been sexually assaulted by a crowd of [...]

he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink

Discovered two awesome beers this weekend: * The Racer 5 IPA (WARNING: terrible website design), a California brew that made its way to Common Ground in Allston. Just the right blend of bitterness and sourness that makes a good IPA for me. * Berkshire Brewing Company’s Steel Rail Pale Ale. Sylvia and I ate at [...]

it’s okay; I know nothing’s wrong

Cymbeline: a superior production in a rather tricky space. I’ve read a lot of Shakespeare and seen a little of it, too, but I had no familiarity with Cymbeline before this weekend. The plot itself is formulaic myth: evil stepmothers, poisons that feign death, lost princes and legendary heroes. The Actors’ Shakespeare Project takes this [...]

leave all your love and your loving behind

Should I pick on Tom Friedman? I don’t know. Seeing a new Tom Friedman column is like running into a Lyndon LaRouche agitator in Park Street station, scratching his thinning hair, asking me which subway goes to Harvard. I could point out his mistakes, sure, but I’m much more likely to send him on the [...]

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