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In 1943, there were seven food groups; one of them was BUTTER!
(via How Uncle Sam Helps Define America’s Diet : NPR)
Coincidentally (or not), Paula Deen was born in 1947. Someone needs to photoshop her in there and send it to http://pauladeenridingthings.com/
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“In an age when all media are converging, we had best concede that there are means other than text alone to convey complex ideas. In fact, in a world of ceaseless distractions, ideas that grab you by the eyeballs are more likely to stick.” - Brooke Gladstone
(via Norton Buys Graphic Media Manifesto | The New York Observer)
Gladstone’s book, The Influencing Machine, was just published last month and it’s excellent! I reviewed it on my blog.
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Writing teachers and critics frequently point out that having a story begin with a character waking up in the morning is sloppy storytelling. And yet, every once and awhile, a cliché like this works so perfectly that you don’t even notice. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opens with Joel (Jim Carrey) waking up in bed. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman gets away with this and nearly everything else in this film because of one simple conceit: he’s asking us to just go with it, but doesn’t make any promises he’s going to explain anything. Kaufman isn’t too concerned with making us think. He’s more about getting us to relate.
(via tor.com)
I loved this movie, and I’m not a Carrey fan at all. While Kaufman wrote a great script, Michael Gondry executed it wonderfully, reining Carrey in a way so few directors have.
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![“At some point I’m sure [Rolling Stone] will be on the iPad but I’m not in any rush to break what I consider fundamental principles of what the magazine industry has to have and make a deal with Apple that will mortgage me into the future on the basis of getting 2,000 copies sold a month.
I think that rush is so premature. I’ve sat down and talked with the assembled heads of the industry about the whole thing and everybody has misgivings but some are, you know, more insecure than others.”
(via Jann Wenner: Magazines’ Tablet Migration Will Take ‘Decades’ | MediaWorks - Advertising Age)
Kudos to Wenner for calling a spade a spade and not jumping on the iPad bandwagon.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm28q9sVmT1qas67zo1_400.jpg)
“At some point I’m sure [Rolling Stone] will be on the iPad but I’m not in any rush to break what I consider fundamental principles of what the magazine industry has to have and make a deal with Apple that will mortgage me into the future on the basis of getting 2,000 copies sold a month.
I think that rush is so premature. I’ve sat down and talked with the assembled heads of the industry about the whole thing and everybody has misgivings but some are, you know, more insecure than others.”
(via Jann Wenner: Magazines’ Tablet Migration Will Take ‘Decades’ | MediaWorks - Advertising Age)
Kudos to Wenner for calling a spade a spade and not jumping on the iPad bandwagon.
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Poor Black Kids Just Need Google
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The more I think about the latest Amazon outrage, and filter through my lack of shock, then my...
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The Dark Knight by Corey Dukes. Holy shit this is creepy and brilliant.
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Technology is ruining the holidays. A download is a dud gift (dudload?).
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