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Book Review: 'The Dinner Party and other Stories' by Joshua Ferris

12/28/2017

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​Joshua Ferris’ recent collection of short stories features pieces previously published, over half of them in the New Yorker and one based on a character from Ferris’ first novel, the pop-lit crossover “Then We Came to the End.” With a singular “gray” humor, Ferris shades 11 unmoored but uninspired Walter Mittys of a more modern capitalism. Each story offers an objective glance at dissatisfaction, each character disappointed with the reality of his or her life and anxiously, ineffectively attempting a rewrite. He or she just can’t seem to decide.


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Learning to Love Bad Movies

12/27/2017

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In the search of metaphors for human existence philosophers through the ages have come up with some pretty interesting ideas. Like dreams, film and visual arts are a look at the subconscious, an attempt to make sense of the world that we can never really wrap up into an hour or ten. Movies are life flattened like time in amber, distilled and made just a little bit better. Unfortunately life is like a bad movie. A terrible horrible movie. An awful awful horrible movie that we’re all forced to sit through. If viewed as if life was a movie you'd walk out half way through and get your money back. Life is cruel, short and is ultimately incomprehensible. Our narratives make Troll 2 look like Citizen Kane.

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Cooking With Cast Iron

12/20/2017

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My mother swore by her cast iron skillets, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I discovered the pleasure of cooking in cast iron myself, and I have to admit that I L.O.V.E it.  When properly seasoned and maintained they are the best non-stick cookware you'll find,   and cleanup is seriously a cinch -- just scrape off the cooked on bits with your spatula, scraper, or a spoon, wipe clean with a paper towel, and only wash with soap and water if you absolutely have to. Then apply a thin coat of cooking oil before you put it away to keep it from rusting, and you're done.  The only other care it needs is a quick reconditioning every few months (less often if you don't wash it with soap and water, more often if you do).

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New Movies at the Library!

12/14/2017

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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats  1977 R

      
Movies are bizarre projects if you think about them. Enormously expensive and labor intensive a finished film is the culmination of huge collective effort, which is sometimes not exactly what the director, screenwriter or cast had expected, or is sometimes so ridiculous as to approach the sublime.
Brigsby Bear 2017 PG-13

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      If you were raised by Television like I was Brigsby Bear is a film which will resonate with you on a humorous and emotional level.  The debut film from SNL star and Youtube comedy genius Kyle Mooney Brigsby Bear is the story of James, an adult who has never left the bunker he was raised in.


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"Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson

12/7/2017

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    In a recent interview, Walter Isaacson was asked who he would invite to his ideal literary dinner party.  Some authors give a non-committal response to this question, but for him the answer was obvious – Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci.  Isaacson spent over a decade working on monumental biographies of each of these innovators. “They would have a jolly time explaining things to one another,” he reasoned. In each of these portraits, Isaacson explores a common theme, as he puts it, “how the ability to make connections across disciplines is the key to innovation, imagination and genius.”  His most recent subject is the ultimate example of this, the true Renaissance Man.
 

    “Leonardo da Vinci” is a heavy book – literally; it is as though you can feel the weight of information contained in the pages pulling your arm downward.  However, this doesn’t make it boringly dense… far from it.  This biography is a magnificent achievement of scholarship and insight into the life of one of the world’s great curious minds.

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