March 2011
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Remember the myth of Prometheus, who gave humanity fire and was punished for it by Zeus—who lashed him to a rock where “a great eagle ate his liver every day, only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next”? I sometimes imagine that’s how it must feel to work at Industrial Light & Magic, whenever George Lucas trots out the Star Wars movies and obliges his visual effects...
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I'm paraphrasing
Agent K: When you watch One Fine Day it always seems to rain.
Laura: Lots of people watch One Fine Day when it rains!
Agent K: It rains because you're watching One Fine Day, baby.
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Ever have that dream where you’re back in high school? You know, the one where everything’s laid out like Hogwarts? That is, if the Harry Potter books had been written by Vladimir Nabokov? Just me? Okay.
Showtime to Keep Current Originals Off Netflix in... →
“Current and past seasons of our original series will be available to our authenticated subscribers via our TV Everywhere service Showtime Anytime,” a Showtime spokesperson said.
Somewhere Jack Donaghy’s ears are turning red.
Think of the little things we never do. When was the last time you jumped in the air or hung upside down? We become timid inside our comfort zones.
One of modern life’s unique pleasures: bumping into someone you know in an elevator and changing your mind about which floor you’re getting off on.
The New Yorker: Barry Michels, Therapist for... →
By far the most common problem afflicting the writers in Michels’s practice is procrastination, which he understands in terms of Jung’s Father archetype. “They procrastinate because they have no external authority figure demanding that they write,” he says. “Often I explain to the patient that there is an authority figure he’s answerable to, but it’s not human. It’s Time itself that’s passing...
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Big-endian, Little-endian … Howards End-ian.
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“I never change the channel in my trailer. I just watch reruns of House of Payne...”
– Robert Pattinson
