May 29th, 2011 / 11:40 pm
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3 Things Good Today

1. Michael Rapaport in the movie Special.

2. Isak Dinesen’s short story, “The Blank Page.” Read it here.

3. The first paragraph of Winter’s Bone, a book I was given before it made the now-infamous and stupidly misguided List, which I began reading today. At least it has a female protagonist? Nice sounds:

…Meat hung from trees across the creek. The carcasses hung pale of flesh with a fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs…

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18 Comments

  1. May 30th, 2011 / 5:25 am Anonymous—
  2. May 30th, 2011 / 12:28 pm Anonymous—

      ta.gg/53c

  3. May 30th, 2011 / 12:52 pm Anonymous—
  4. May 30th, 2011 / 3:07 pm Anonymous—

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  5. May 30th, 2011 / 3:49 pm Anonymous—
  6. May 30th, 2011 / 5:54 pm deadgod—

      Not that everything has to be, or is only to be, talked about in connection to influence, but the rhythm of that paragraph is McCarthyesque.  He’s become – maybe only in my imagination – a Force.

  7. May 30th, 2011 / 6:02 pm Tummler—

      “The Blank Page” is a great story indeed. I stumbled upon it while trying to figure out the title/author of Dave Eggers’s blank short story “There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself.”

  8. May 30th, 2011 / 6:28 pm Bradley Harrison—

      I may have missed something.. (nothing new there)  : to what list are you referring?

  9. May 30th, 2011 / 10:47 pm jtc—

      believe it was this list by this magazine about 75 manly books all men are now required to read before they die forever. someone had a post about it a few days ago here.

  10. May 30th, 2011 / 11:58 pm Anonymous—

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  11. May 31st, 2011 / 12:20 am Anonymous—
  12. May 31st, 2011 / 12:21 am alexisorgera—

      the Esquire “75 books every man should read” list. Which had some good books on it, some of my favorites, as a matter of fact. But totally silly that only one woman made the list–as though all men are actually only interested in reading other men. 

  13. May 31st, 2011 / 12:22 am alexisorgera—

      I agree. Except McCarthy’s paragraph would have been two pages and included lots of made up compounds. :)

  14. May 31st, 2011 / 12:43 pm Anonymous—

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  15. May 31st, 2011 / 6:00 pm Nick—

      Glad you specified Michael Rapaport in the movie Special, and not so much the movie itself.

  16. May 31st, 2011 / 6:56 pm alexisorgera—

      I really loved the way the movie was shot, but I thought the story was kind of muddled; I guess it was supposed to reflect the Rapaport character’s muddled mind, maybe? But it was at once a tirade against pharmaceutical drug studies and a really sad personal story. I don’t know–something didn’t gel. 

  17. June 1st, 2011 / 12:26 pm Anonymous—

      xvr.in/O6

  18. June 2nd, 2011 / 1:01 am Anonymous—

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