OK, if you missed Jurassic World Dominion in IMAX (I did not) thanks to my laziness, well, I apologize, but, really, it’s your own damn fault for letting the bi-coastal blue state big mouths do your thinking for you. In the future, if you get the chance to see big dinos on the big screen,…
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Adam Rubenstein and the Times: Yes, but …
Undeservedly ousted conservative NYT editor Adam Rubenstein is deservedly getting plenty of ink n’ pixels with his tale of undeserved trauma, I Was a Heretic at The New York Times, over at the Atlantic, recounting, among other things, how he received, well, a “woke up” call on his very first day, in the course of…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk: Too cute!
Okay, we have changed the name of this website to “Snark R Us”, but bear with me. This is snark, but snark with a thesis. Is Dunkirk an extraordinary visual spectacle? Well, duh. Yeah. I saw it at the Lockheed IMAX in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, one of the biggest screens in the…
Casual Christmas
I’ll be posting over the holidays, but not necessarily every day, unless I’m feeling exceptionally splenetic. To warm you, and myself, up, I’m posting “Hard Rock, Coco, and Joe,” a 1951 video that I watched as a kid. I’ve learned from the YouTube posting that this was developed by the “Garfield Goose” TV show in…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alan Vanneman regrets to admit that he has nothing intelligent or informed to say about the ISIS crisis. Instead, he will write about nail salons.
You read Sarah Maslin Nir’s two-part exposé of New York nail salons the New York Times. You read the “How I got the story” interview with Nir in the Times. You read the rebuttal by nail salon owner and former New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein. You read the NYT rebuttal to Bernstein’s rebuttal. And…