Yeah, it’s pretty transcendent, and by far his best doc (not to mention the best doc on rock/pop music bar none). I was fortunate enough to be with him on a regular basis while he was making it, so I had a glimpse into the working method. One thing I’ll never forget was his exclamation, “The documentary has no form!…

I was born in Milwaukee and lived there through high school before moving to Europe and NYC and haven’t been back since; I have to admit I’m going to be a bit of a contrarian: I couldn’t help but notice, while eating pizza in Naples for the first time, that I hadn’t enjoyed a pizza so thoroughly since my youth in…

If you share my taste (and it sure seems you do), I’m tempted to say that the Harrison thing — a fascinating “double album” that interweaves his essential themes in a new context — is required viewing.

It originally read God made sure I would ultimately have a beautiful face because I’m worth it.

Give the programming language a whirl! It’s an oldie but goodie, durable and versatile; it’s been in use for 1,400 years.

I’m saying you’re saying things that are not only not true but injurious and driving me (and I doubt only me) to suicide.

Squarely not the “gist,” imports of which limn cultures that
■ can’t read 577 words but, remarkably, draft a third that amount with aplomb.
■ “believe.”

TL?

Louis is a masochist. All the incidents we know about — besides the phone conversation — took place in private, i.e. his hotel room or dressing room. He asked for permission each time, he received consent, he apologized after.

I’m not campaigning for him to receive the chevalier de l’ordre des arts et lettres, but the…

I dunno. I guess I’d draw the line at number three.

Abrams indeed regretted not having signed on to direct the sequel, but we don’t know the story of the script he’d seen. It’s safe to assume it was not the one that was filmed; Abrams would have seen the flaws.

It’s so depressing. Abrams left the series with one of the greatest setups in recent memory. It doesn’t take a…

I think it was supposed to be who could not have been without a lack of the absence of any qualms at the complete dearth of compunction’s want. 

No, no. Just influencers. The awful truth: everyone will know what you mean.

Yeah, right. She’s smart. Carmen Kaas worked her derriere off to lobby for Tallinn to host the 2008 Olympics of Chess, facing Dresden (who won); Anja Rubik is doing more than anybody since Henry Miller to fight censorship; but Karlie snaps a selfie with a statue of John Harvard and, wow, Karlie’s smart.

I had tagged her…

In all fairness, he did surrender whatever grand ambitions he held upon meeting the young Wittgenstein. (It was a win-win, as it’s doubtful he would have otherwise agreed to work on the Numberwang decoder.)

I watched the whole thing, I forced myself. I seriously believe I’ve somehow injured myself.

God does she suck. She is the worst.

Once they printed a doubletime bill.

Yes, it looks like the show’s entering another one of its valleys.

So Bojack was referring to her? Never quite understood this — at first I thought the show was making a comment on her rise to fame. 

People have (a) lost the ability to consider others’ points of view, and/or (b) never had it to begin with. It’s Richard Feynman’s image of ceremony: dental hygiene is an unceasing phenomenon that takes place on the edge of the rotating earth where suddenly the population assembles, as if in front of some invisible…

Seems to me you’re intelligent enough to have already shaped your response. Your essential empathy with your father outwits informal poli-sci and will, indeed, engage it. His perspective will allow you to appreciate the aspects of Trump that are so difficult for less sophisticated leftists to consider — his…

I think you’re absolutely right, and I wish the point were made more often. I was struck by the raw numbers disclosed with reports of Trump’s campaign against Hillary: a couple of rooms in Moscow, standing in for the universe.