Archive for the 'Seriousness' Category
What does it say about the current state of the mainstream media when our most prominent truth-tellers are comedians?
1 Comment Published by Ryan April 30th, 2006 in Seriousness.It’s been a serendipitous day. First, the college buddy I’m staying with in Connecticut got All the President’s Men in the mail from Netflix. Alan Pakula’s influential 1976 film (based on the book) profiled Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s hard-working journalistic muckraking (sans internet, cell phones, or computers in general), which uncovered Watergate […]
In my previous post I claimed I’m not a criminal. That’s not entirely true, according to Officer R.D. Helms (any relation to Jesse?) of the Charlotte P.D. According to him, “on or about Saturday, the 11 of March, 2006 at 12:00AM in Mecklenburg you did unlawfully and willfully operate a motor vehicle on […]
At long last, the not-at-all-anticipated part three of my Kongparison, wherein I jot down notes from watching each of the three Kongs (here are parts one and two).
King Kong (2005), dir. Peter Jackson:
Kongtech divides up nicely: stop-motion for the 30s, guy in an ape suit for the 70s, CGI for the 2000s. What’s it […]
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 […]
