Originally Posted By purns

balltillifall: daveholmes: I will be there in evening wear. purns: On Thursday evening writer-director Whit Stillman, auteur of the Preppydämmerung film “Metropolitan,” will host a screening at “online movie theater” Constellation.tv. Through online chat the fillmmaker will answer viewer questions and will also present the trailer from his upcoming movie “Damsels In Distress.” [Ivy Style] Metropolitan is one of my all time favorite films. If you’ve never seen it I can’t think of a better chance than this. I saw Barcelona (felt like I wasn’t the target generation), but this intrigues me.

balltillifall:

daveholmes:

I will be there in evening wear.

purns:

On Thursday evening writer-director Whit Stillman, auteur of the Preppydämmerung film “Metropolitan,” will host a screening at “online movie theater” Constellation.tv. Through online chat the fillmmaker will answer viewer questions and will also present the trailer from his upcoming movie “Damsels In Distress.”
[Ivy Style]

Metropolitan is one of my all time favorite films. If you’ve never seen it I can’t think of a better chance than this.

I saw Barcelona (felt like I wasn’t the target generation), but this intrigues me.

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The Little Kitchen Shop in the LES menu

The Little Kitchen Shop in the LES menu

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For me, sex is an icebreaker.

Lady bartender at Iggys in the LES
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How to Keep Score in New Hampshire: Will Romney’s Win Really Be a Victory? -- Daily Intel

So as the results roll in tonight, keep in mind the following facts:

  • Just as it was in 2008, the Republican race in New Hampshire is effectively a six-way affair, so the comparison to 2012 in terms of Romney’s percentage of the vote will be apples-to-apples.
  • Last time, he finished in second place with 31.6 percent of the vote, which put him 5.5 points behind John McCain.
  • Romney led by double digits in virtually every public poll conducted in 2011.

Set against those precedents, if Romney ends up with over 40 percent of the vote and a healthy double-digit win, it will be seen as an unequivocal triumph. At the other extreme, if he finishes with less than 31 percent and/or a mere single-digit win, it will be interpreted as a clear disappointment, maybe even as a kind of defeat. Any result that falls in between those poles will be read more ambiguously, though my sense of the over-under at this point is a double-digit win with 36 percent — a five-point improvement on 2008.

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The Autumn of Joan Didion - Magazine - The Atlantic - via The Awl Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young received from her a way of being female and being writers that no one else could give them. She was our Hunter Thompson, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem was our Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He gave the boys twisted pig-fuckers and quarts of tequila; she gave us quiet days in Malibu and flowers in our hair. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,” Thompson wrote. “All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better,” Didion wrote. To not understand the way that those two statements would reverberate in the minds of, respectively, young men and young women is to not know very much at all about those types of creatures. Thompson’s work was illustrated by Ralph Steadman’s grotesque ink blots, and early Didion by the ravishing photographs of the mysterious girl-woman: sitting barelegged on a stone balustrade; posing behind the wheel of her yellow Corvette; wearing an elegant silk gown and staring off into space, all alone in a chic living room.

The Autumn of Joan Didion - Magazine - The Atlantic - via The Awl

Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young received from her a way of being female and being writers that no one else could give them. She was our Hunter Thompson, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem was our Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He gave the boys twisted pig-fuckers and quarts of tequila; she gave us quiet days in Malibu and flowers in our hair. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,” Thompson wrote. “All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better,” Didion wrote. To not understand the way that those two statements would reverberate in the minds of, respectively, young men and young women is to not know very much at all about those types of creatures. Thompson’s work was illustrated by Ralph Steadman’s grotesque ink blots, and early Didion by the ravishing photographs of the mysterious girl-woman: sitting barelegged on a stone balustrade; posing behind the wheel of her yellow Corvette; wearing an elegant silk gown and staring off into space, all alone in a chic living room.

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Originally Posted By noraleah

Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

noraleah:

Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.

Did any of you catch this week’s This American Life episode? I found it so interesting and moving. I adore my laptop and my iPhone but I hardly grovel at the foot of Steve Jobs (give me a drink and I’ll tell you what I really think of him).

Still, I’ll admit that I covet Apple’s goods as much as the next guy — and that I’ve given very little thought to where they’re made. Sure, I’ve heard of the questionable working conditions and potential environmental infractions, but I’ve never really thought about it. Particularly odd because when I was in high school I went down to Managua to make a documentary about girls who worked in sweatshops making clothing for American brands. I guess I didn’t put it together that just as hoodies must be made by a human, so must iPads. And the wild thing is, those girls I interviewed had some kind of access to what they were making. They might not be able to afford clothes from, say, Target, but they wore clothes. The people making Apple products will never be able to afford anything like what they’re making, nor will they ever get to use them outside of a quick test run in the factory. 

To be honest, it reminded me of The Hunger Games. Like they’re the people of District 3, making electronic gadgets for the people of the Capital — but never getting to use them themselves. And we’re the crazy people of the Capital, with our body modifications and image prep teams and (borderline-)sadistic “entertainment.” But that’s obvious anyway.

Lori, Andrea, and I were all pretty impacted by Daisey’s one-man show and I’m really thrilled TAL has picked it up here. Can’t wait to listen.

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Originally Posted By givemesomethingtoread

Reading List: John Jeremiah Sullivan

givemesomethingtoread:

In my time running this website I’ve discovered, rediscovered, and otherwise enjoyed the works of various writers I might not have in other circumstances. Among my favourite discoveries this year was John Jeremiah Sullivan, who I’ll leave it to James Wood to introduce, from his review of Sullivan’s latest collection of essays, Pulphead:

He seems to have in abundance the storyteller’s gifts: he is a fierce noticer, is undauntedly curious, is porous to gossip, and has a memory of childlike tenacity. Anecdotes fly off the wheels of his larger narratives. In a touching piece about the near-death of his brother (who electrocuted himself with a microphone while playing with his band, the Moviegoers, in a garage in Lexington, Kentucky), Sullivan mentions, in passing, “Captain Clarence Jones, the fireman and paramedic who brought Worth back to life, strangely with two hundred joules of pure electric shock (and who later responded to my grandmother’s effusive thanks by giving all the credit to the Lord).” Any reporter can be specific about the two hundred joules. But the detail about Captain Jones giving all the credit to the Lord, while a small thing, suggests a writer interested in human stories, watching, remembering, and sticking around long enough to be generally hospitable to otherness.

You can buy Pulphead from Amazon right now, but in the meantime I’ve collected some of my favourite John Jeremiah Sullivan essays here, in no particular order, for your enjoyment.

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I thoroughly enjoyed Pulphead (there were several amazing blow your mind essays and a few more academic/scholarly deep dives into less interesting topics to me) and suggest all of these linked essays as well.

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Originally Posted By lorim

lorim: An upside to the season: winter weekends afford board game afternoons. On Sunday Andrea and Peter were inducted into the cult of Catan. Despite my largest army and Peter’s longest road, Andrea quickly cleaned up and snatched victory from us both. The architect knows how to build cities. Also of note: Peter makes the best coffee in the neighborhood. I want to learn his secrets. Couldn’t have asked for a more patient introduction to this wonderful game. I’ll make coffee all day if it gets Lori to bring it back over again.

lorim:

An upside to the season: winter weekends afford board game afternoons. On Sunday Andrea and Peter were inducted into the cult of Catan. Despite my largest army and Peter’s longest road, Andrea quickly cleaned up and snatched victory from us both. The architect knows how to build cities.

Also of note: Peter makes the best coffee in the neighborhood. I want to learn his secrets.

Couldn’t have asked for a more patient introduction to this wonderful game. I’ll make coffee all day if it gets Lori to bring it back over again.

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Jonathan Ames - The Mess I’m In - NYTimes.com I have a form of attention deficit disorder. I like to pay attention only to things I want to pay attention to, and cleaning my apartment does not fall into that category. Thus, I live like the Unabomber, but without his sense of purpose. I have, of course, made attempts every now and then to straighten up, but I approach it in the same manner as my taxes — something to be done only once a year, while screaming in confused agony like a cat in heat. 

Jonathan Ames - The Mess I’m In - NYTimes.com

I have a form of attention deficit disorder. I like to pay attention only to things I want to pay attention to, and cleaning my apartment does not fall into that category. Thus, I live like the Unabomber, but without his sense of purpose. I have, of course, made attempts every now and then to straighten up, but I approach it in the same manner as my taxes — something to be done only once a year, while screaming in confused agony like a cat in heat. 

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