Must watch: this beautiful Japanese film. Here’s the trailer. Via You Make it Easy.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men — the man he is and the man he wants to be
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| — | William Feather, quoted in this story about Alex Bogusky. |
琳賽蘿涵出獄，住進戒毒中心 (via NMANews) Lindsay Lohan saga recounted in Taiwanese animation, via OsloDavis.
Oh! By the way! Have YOU been to my carefully-curated AMAZON BOOK STORE recently?
Naturally, feel free to browse and then buy the books second hand, from a real life bookshop, or the Book Depository, which has free shipping and recently cancelled my order for me without complaining when I accidentally bought a book I already owned.
Today I went all the way to Footscray Savers and found, embarrassingly but excitingly, the first hardback Australian edition of The School at the Chalet!
Things I liked this week: breakfast here. Visiting the Adelaide Hills on a quick work trip. Reading this. Watching this and this. Smelling this. Listening to this!
Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, negligible amounts invested in stocks, and suburban trophy houses they cannot afford. For the college graduates at Starbucks working to pay off student loans for degrees that they will never use, as for the millions of Americans who are now “underwater,” owing more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, the American dream has turned into a nightmare.
