The night I finished reading Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964), two thoughts went through my head: first, where’s the Kleenex? Because I was a sniffly, teary mess. And second, I prayed that Tom Ford had not found some way to fuck up this beautiful, subtle novel. One of those wishes came true, just not the important one. I’m not sure how...
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Older folks like to rattle on about “kids these days”, how reckless and irresponsible and even cruel they are. Sounds a lot like banks these days. Sure, it’s terrible that kids these days have no manners and don’t appreciate anything they do have, but we really do have bigger problems in the raw immorality of America’s banking institutions....
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Every once in a while, I come across a book that makes me think, “Wow, this could be a great movie.” More often, I come across a movie that I enjoyed very much and find out after the fact that it was a book first. When that happens, I tend to wind up disappointed by the book; Thomas Cobb’s Crazy Heart is one of these books. I first saw the movie...
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Well, now that we’re smack dab somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I guess it’s fitting if we talk about it, huh? See, I am admittedly obsessed with holidays. Any holiday. Give me a holiday, I will overplan, overprep, overcraft, overbake. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, Arbor Day, heck, make up a day. So yes, I am planned...
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Thanks to the documentary Helvetica and the unending miscellany that is Tumblr, I have recently become more aware of the typeface and design that surrounds me. Have you noticed, for instance, the advertisement for Helvetica, the font, in the background of Mad Men season 3? Perhaps more reasonably you might have noticed the diversity of types in the books...
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