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For a variety of reasons, it’s been a distressing week. And it’s only Wednesday. And I didn’t sleep last night. Times like these, nothing to do but think about delightful things. Here are 7: 1. The new Life photo archive. 2. The Marshall McLuhan scene in Annie Hall.  3. Valerie’s gratefulness updates.  4. Max Fischer’s…

Vanity Fair reports on an internal memo from Painter of Light Thomas Kinkade in which he outlines 16 principles for making a film modeled on his paintings. (The film is called “Christmas Cottage”–which could also be the name of virtually every Thomas Kinkade painting–and is due to be released on video this week.) Read the…

Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up is the most fun weekend reading I’ve done in a long time. Pensive yet page-turning. Three moments I’ll remember: 1. While studying Wittgenstein in college–which Martin was paying for by doing standup comedy–Martin was wrestling with whether to be a stage performer or an academic philosopher. He soon makes a discovery:…

On election night, a Facebook (and real life!) friend, Brandon, posted a status update to the effect that Americans were naive for voting for Obama. I took issue with Brandon’s remark, which he had first delivered to me over iChat, and it prompted a couple days of discussion and disagreement between us. This was standard…
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