December 2011
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My Twelve Favorite Movies of 2011
I’m no film critic. I’m not beholden to any “Ten Best” restriction.
1. The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick) (duhhh)
2. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
3. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
4. Cold Weather (Aaron Katz)
5. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
7. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
8. The Skin I Live In (Pedro...
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TWM, EAP: Cuzzins
My uncle Billy Ray Warren (that’s his given name - not William Raymond but Billy Ray) is a retired surveyor for the Texas Highway Department who spends a lot of his free time on ancestry.com tracing the histories of my maternal grandparents’ families, the Warrens and the Kerstans. He’s traced the Warren side back to the 13th century or some absurd time like that, but the real...
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Re: Yetunde, I got fer Christmas:
- A one-year membership to the Gene Siskel Film Center
- Two swanky-ass cardigans that are way too nice for a man who eats cheeseburgers as often as I do
- A cashmere scarf that falls under the same category/is maybe kinda gay?
- The new books by Joan Didion and Stephen King
- The Rules Of The Game Criterion Collection DVD
- A Patagonia shoulder bag so I...
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“When he was running for President, George W. Bush mistook the third syllable of the late Kim’s name for a roman numeral and called him Kim Jong Two.”
It’s over three years since Obama was elected and I’m still hearing fresh Bushisms. God Bless America.
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“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually...
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Dreamt last night that I was with my mother somewhere up north, maybe Minnesota or Alberta, and I was following her through the woods. We stopped suddenly at the edge of a big lake. The ground was eroding beneath my feet and as I was talking to my mother she shushed me and said, “Do you see that?” and I realized that there was a humpback whale in this lake. The whale kept surfacing and...
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Pearl Harbor Day
Possibly the most moving of all the reminiscences assembled routinely by the news services as a demonstration of their world coverage is the recital of a seaman who went out in a launch with some other seamen to the stricken Oklahoma, already on the verge of capsizing, and dragged out as many of the trapped men as they could, to carry them to safety. They got out quite a few. But all the while...
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manasto:
This is a recording from 1959 of...
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