Links for February 12th
Bengals players playing chess, what happens after #MeToo, Kirsten Dunst, Licorice Pizza, 2666
Hello, hope you had a smooth week. I got some film developed from our recent snow storm; unfortunately, I am still getting the hang of the rangefinder camera (i.e. focusing it in lower light situations) I got last year; let’s call the above “impressionistic.”
Links
In terms of like a nice, fun one, check out this Journal story on Joe Burrow (and other Bengals and assorted NFL players) playing chess!
My colleague Katie Baker went very deep into the aftermath of Eric Schneiderman’s terrible behavior with women, and if he can or can’t actually change and atone, and if the women involved can or can’t actually believe that (and how could they since, as it turns out, he hasn’t apologized to them directly), and what comes after MeToo.
Interesting story here: At Ole Miss’s law school, a conservative white student took the state’s only actual class on Critical Race Theory.
A reporter for New York spoke with four people who filmed police shootings, and what happened after — not a fun read, obviously, but I had not known the story of the man who filmed Walter Scott’s shooting in South Carolina.
Jack Shafer makes the case for fun (basically) vis a vis the New York Times.
In nice stuff, enjoyed this bit from Kirsten Dunst on how she and fellow Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons met and fell in love.
I’m not sure how I ended up following a wedding photographer on Instagram, but this is a great photo (this is a Valentine’s themed nice stuff?).
And lastly, I was not a huge fan of Licorice Pizza except for two scenes, one of which is below, featuring the band HAIM and their parents:
Light book commentary
More on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 sometime soon, but here’s a choice selection:
They ate rabbit stew. The wife of the writer from Mainz opened her mouth only once during the meal, to ask the baroness where she’d bought the dress she was wearing. In Paris, answered the baroness, and that was the last time the writer’s wife spoke. And yet from then on her face was transformed into a discourse or a memorandum on the affronts suffered by the city of Mainz from its founding until the present day.
Thank you to Roberto Bolaño.
A note on all this
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