Archive for the 'Reading' Category
The connection between “The Wire” and On the Road
1 Comment Published by Ryan March 23rd, 2008 in Reading, Film.I just finished the final season of what will go down as the greatest standard-definition TV series in history, HBO’s “The Wire.” And while someday I’d like to write a eulogy for my now-concluded favorite show, at this point it’s easiest to react to the reactors: I’ve been following along with Slate’s episode diary. […]
The argument against Freakonomics
0 Comments Published by Ryan November 2nd, 2005 in Reading, Seriousness.I REALLY THOUGHT whoops, caps lock.
I really thought I was going to like Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics. Any book which is primarily concerned with looking at things in new ways, and is also focused on race in America, I figured I’d love unconditionally. But I didn’t. I did thoroughly enjoy […]
Some like it raw
4 Comments Published by Ryan October 4th, 2005 in Health, Dalliance, Reading, Web, Film.There’s a problem with sex in the movies: there’s not enough. Crotchety old people complain about nudity a lot, which is amusing–do these people not shower?–but if anything, sex is drastically underrepresented on film. Here at No Film School, I declare that we do not see enough cellulite on celluloid. Well, not […]
