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"You Got Your Batman in My Borges!" Nils Runeberg Lives!
Filed under: comics, fiction, Jorge Luis Borges, movies
On the self-promotion tip, I have a brief article over at metaphilm.com about how The Dark Knight seems to appropriate some plot elements from the Jorge Luis Borges story "Three Versions of Judas." The similarity seemed very strong to me, and yet I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere despite many Google searches. Enjoy!
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Chris Russo, known to many as "Mad Dog," is leaving the tri-state-area sports behemoth WFAN, a move that brings the 19-year run of the afternoon sports radio talk show "Mike and the Mad Dog" to a sudden end. Right this minute, on the very last installment of the show, Mike (Francesa) is fielding a seemingly endless string of calls attesting to an importance that can only accrue in 330-minute installments five times a week over many years. I count myself as a fan.
Nick Paumgarten wrote about the
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"The 405" and "the B.Q.E." Both Mean "40-Minute Delay"
Filed under: Christopher Rand, Saul Steinberg, View of the World From Ninth Avenue, Whitney Darrow Jr.
At the Washington Monthly website, Kevin Drum once raised the question of the (relatively) recent New York discovery of the taco (here is our contribution); now he is investigating a regional linguistic quirk: why is it that Angelenos are the only American city dwellers (save those living in Toronto/Buffalo, apparently) who habitually refer to local thoroughfares as "the 5," "the 405," "the 10"? Here in New York, you take "95" to get to Connecticut and "87" to get upstate and "287" to get across Westchester and so on.
(A friend of mine may have cracked the case, by the way. In Drum's third post on the subject, he asks why the prevailing academic explanation—scale of traffic system—does not also
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Ballyhoo at the Return of "The Campaign Trail" (For Me, Anyway)
Filed under: covers, Dorothy Wickenden, Election 2008, Elizabeth Kolbert, George Packer, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jeffrey Toobin, John Cassidy, New Yorker Conference, newyorker.com, Nicholas Lemann, podcasts, politics, Ryan Lizza
Hooray, the Campaign Trail podcast is back! For some reason, the July 11 podcast never loaaed into my iTunes until yesterday, when I also downloaded the July 18 edition, which means that I'd been waiting since June 26 for more of Dorothy Wickenden and the gang. For my money, The Campaign Trail and the Washington Week audio feed are the only two weekly-ish political podcasts worth the trouble. The (belated) double dip was welcome indeed.
So after a week in which we heard way too much about the cover of the magazine, let us now praise The New Yorker's indefatigable, entertaining, and, at this stage, well-nigh overlooked political team,
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The New Yorker Guide to Today's China
Filed under: Alex Ross, Evan Osnos, James Surowiecki, Jonathan Franzen, Pankaj Mishra, Patricia Marx, Paul Goldberger, Peter Hessler, Peter Schjeldahl, Yiyun Li
I was intrigued by Emily's observation a couple of weeks back that The New Yorker has been covering China so assiduously in recent months.
That got my devious little mind into gear. I looked into it, and she sure isn't making it up. There have been a bunch of articles covering China since the start of the year, and the good news is, most of them are available online.
With only about three weeks until the start of the Beijing Olympics, we
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- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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