It’s not that I want the football commentators to try and sell every game as a classic even when it clearly isn’t. I appreciate their willingness to be honest about their product. But having bloody Lawro gloomily commenting about how bad the game is every 30 seconds for the whole bloody match really doesn’t add to its value as a piece of entertainment. It’s like watching football with Eeyore sitting on your shoulder.
Day: May 19, 2007
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via A&LD: ‘The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood […] also possessed Lincoln’s blood-stained collar and Hermann Göring’s cyanide ampoule.’
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via A&LD: ‘If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete.’
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‘The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema’
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‘A house sitting at an angle to the directions of the compass disturbs the delicate equilibrium of the Midwestern mind.’
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via Coudal: ‘Plagiarism is also a hallmark of tiki culture.’