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2010
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Scoring Chaplin
“Film scoring is an essential part of cinema, and it’s a part of cinema that works — when it works — completely unconsciously. When you hear a great score after…
BroBos v. BoBos
In his entertaining essay “BroBos in Paradise,” a pun on David Brooks’s pop-culture treatise BoBos in Paradise, Leon Neyfakh explores what he calls a new variation on Brooks’s term “Bourgeois…
Morning Coffee
Department of promotional-material-used-to-be-so-much-cooler: The Frolie Grasshopper Circus. Nova Scotian living wall! Say what you will, but I quite enjoy whimsical street art (like this). Asparagus is trying to destroy japan. (The…
The Loneliest Thing on Earth
Miguel Syjuco’s novel, Ilustrado won the Man Asian Literary Prize while still in manuscript. A Filipino American reviewer considers the fate of Filipino writing in the American literary world.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle…
“A Curiously Obsessive First Novel”
“On its face, the novel’s title suggests both communal and individual aspects of identity. What defines Paul? If blood, he’s half Samoan, half white. If experience, his years in prison…
MetaFilter to the Rescue
“The message thread reads like the play-by-play from an alternate reality game, wherein complete strangers work together to solve a complex mystery. But the drama that played out on MetaFilter…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #37
SEEING EYE DOGS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing seeing eye dogs.
Lethem Is Leaving NYC
“In a way, I need to be dreaming my way back here. The longing and exile are part of my relationship to writing about this place.” Jonathan Lethem is leaving…