Home Now: Faygo just recognized me.
Good to be home. Tonight will be about unpacking and getting to bed early.
Ahoy from Lenox
Ahoy. I am spending the latter part of the Thanksgiving holiday at my parent’s house in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. I return to California tomorrow.
Gleanings: Microlending, Robert Altman and Fred Willard
- Kiva.org is a mircocredit company that facilitates loans to small business owners in the third world. I will be checking them out when I make my cheritable donations this year (via Michelle Richmond).
- The New York Times’s obituary for Robert Altman who died last week at 81. A gift to American Cinema, he will be deeply missed.
- Acclaimed documentary The Corporation will be released on BitTorrent for free (via Chris Messina).
- Some thoughts on HBO’s digital strategy which is safe to characterize at this point as, “not much.” (via Medialoper)
- Future Rock Hall.com is a blog and directory dedicated to speculating on future inductees into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
- Fred Willard talks to Radar Magazine.
One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Stranger than Fiction”
Stranger Than Fiction (2006): “The things we presume are accidents keeping us away from our normal life are what our normal life should be”
Notes: Seen on Thanksgiving Day in New York City with my friend Keely.
Thought of the Day: “An Art of Life”
“I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable—in other words, in an art of life.”
Thought of the Day: “The Future”
“There’s gotta be a future, and it can’t be what is now ’cause you gotta build on a present and keep moving and going down. It’s supposed to be something you can’t think of now. That’s part of life, man.”
I Never Thought of Mary Poppins this way…
From the NY Times…
The 1964 Disney movie “Mary Poppins,” for example, treated adulthood as if it should be another form of childhood. Mary Poppins’s job, after teaching the Banks children that any job can be fun if you pour enough sugar over it, is to teach their father that the right dose might even dissolve the job altogether. Mr. Banks learns that the British Empire, its banks and many other manifestations of authority should be undermined, or at least taken less seriously. Life would be better if parents allowed themselves to dance like chimney sweeps and fly kites in the park. They shouldn’t just pay more attention to their children; they should become more like them. The movie’s liberatory spirit is, of course, out of the heart of the 1960s.
(via AL Daily)
Hoch on Seinfeld:
Performer Danny Hoch, a hero of mine, on the racial implications of Seinfeld (via Jeff Chang).
One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Brick”:
Brick (2005): “Film Noir in 11th grade”
Notes: Saw with my dad on Pay per View. Took us a minute to get it even through I’d hear the director discuss it on The Treatment. Think Double Indemnity v. Clueless mashup and you’ve got the idea.
Both Genders Now:
I can’t tell you how happy this article about poor dressing choices in medicine makes me. Granted, all the pictures are of women’s body parts but the article actually talks about professional dress as if men exist. It also includes a great history of dress in medicine, some quality historical reporting and a point of view. And it’s written by one Dr. Erin Marcus, an internist in Miami, who out journalisms many a professional journalist I’ve read recently.
Bravo.