Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Sox win!
Just before midnight on the East Coast, the Red Sox secured their 11th ever World Series victory with a convincing victory over the Cleveland Indians. Didn’t David Ortiz look cute with his goggles on, ready to celebrate?
With the Yankees sadly eliminated early this year, I’ve felt free to root for the Red Sox throughout the [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Premium Denim and the Great Gatsby
Last weekend, by chance, I ended up at the Blues Jean Bar in the Marina. They have jeans, jeans, and more jeans. It’s rather impressive. However, I did a little research and it seems that their prices are over retail, so I doubt I would ever buy anything there. I also don’t like the fact [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Weekend notes
Conversational reading has a fairly sharp piece about one of my favorite literary critics, James Wood.
I don’t think Wood believes there is much value in metaphors like Flaubert’s because as a reader he doesn’t appreciate what use they have in a novel. Wood is comfortable dissecting how an author attaches character traits to realistic people, [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
J.D. Drew and the curse of potential
J.D. Drew may be the toast of the town in New England after his grand slam yesterday against the Indians, but New York Times and Deadspin blogger Will Leitch writes about how Drew is one of the most disliked players he has ever watched. Leitch notes that “the real reason Drew rankles us so much [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
The development round
The New York Times has an editorial today about the 2001 Doha talks and the commitment to making it easier for poor countries to have access to global markets to sell their goods. However, as the Times notes:
The package for the poorest should be improved. At the very least, the duty- and quota-free access to [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
The New Yorker’s Arts Issue
Earlier this week, I had lunch with New Yorker writer Alex Ross, whose new book The Rest Is Noise is an excellent history of 20th century classical music. Ross has an article in this week’s New Yorker about how the Internet, commonly held to have had a deleterious effect on the music business, has lead [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Orhan Pamuk at the JCC San Francisco
By chance I discovered that Orhan Pamuk was reading at the JCC in San Francisco last night. Unfortunately, tickets were sold out. And yet, I decided to drive up to the city after work, anyway, to see if I might be able to score a ticket by standing outside on California Street. I happened to [...]
