Tuesday, December 11, 2007

What’s your favorite pizza topping? Mines plain. But I like others.

I was being slightly smart-alecky in the last post. We were actually in Vallarta for the wedding of our friends Amy (known to jwbblog readers as the Krusser) and Nick. And it was pretty spectacular. See the photos--link in last post--if you have any doubts.

The weather was close to perfect--high 80's during the day, mid 70's at night. We arrived back in Boston last Monday to cold and ice, and it's been more of the same since. Argh! I forgot how long/miserable winters in Boston can be.

Random items:

* Despite all the hype, I actually sort of liked Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. However, there's a lot of "inside baseball" stuff in it--the sorts of things (like jokes about Graydon Carter's hair) that wouldn't make much sense unless you're a regular reader of, say, Gawker--and I was dubious that it would make for a decent movie. Well, the trailer, with Simon Pegg as Young, is out and it's pretty funny. You can find it here.

* So what are we to make of the Kindle? Is it going to change the world? I doubt it, though I'm old fashioned when it comes to these sorts of things (meaning, mainly, reading books). It seems to me that Chip Kidd gets it about right.

* "Bonfire of the Vanities" has turned twenty. I thought it was pretty close to brilliant when I first read it--which would have been not too long after it was published--but one wonders how well it has aged. (Raphy: Any thoughts?) The Times celebrates with some rather boring interviews.

UPDATE: I should note that one of the reasons I wonder about how well "Bonfire" has held up is that it was made into such a craptastic movie by Brian De Palma. It is now hard for me to think about Sherman, Maria, et al. without also thinking about Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, et al. I should note that, for me, this is not a good thing. (In particular, casting Melanie Griffith as Maria was a crime.) This is perhaps unfair since Brian De Palma is Brian De Palma and not Tom Wolfe and the movie is the movie and not the book. But there you are.

Posted by jwb at 1:35 PM   

6 Comments:

Blogger Marty said:

So, the judgement is in: pending a successful appeal, Lord Black will be spending 5 or so years behind bars in a facility relatively close to his Florida home. I still maintain that Lord Black will be successful on appeal, notwithstanding the hot daughter defence; please refer to exhibits A & B:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/74029516.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DViewImages%26k%3D2%26d%3D17A4AD9FDB9CF193121F0CA652334348655A0C71463D0A8B284831B75F48EF45&imgrefurl=http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx%3Fmid%3D74029516%26epmid%3D1%26partner%3DGoogle&h=594&w=419&sz=28&hl=en&start=2&sig2=3Xyr19XkNdA2biHzA3u1xA&tbnid=MufI6QkFb42dlM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=95&ei=jIhiR-bCBJq6igGTr93BDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAlana%2BBlack%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/74390856.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DViewImages%26k%3D2%26d%3D17A4AD9FDB9CF193FDE3AF4FFC4B70CFCA0CB80A093B00BA284831B75F48EF45&imgrefurl=http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx%3Fmid%3D74390856%26epmid%3D1%26partner%3DGoogle&h=594&w=414&sz=31&hl=en&start=3&sig2=lco_eOZ05BMeqCDbKhlE1A&tbnid=L_W7TmMk8r8EMM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=94&ei=jIhiR-bCBJq6igGTr93BDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAlana%2BBlack%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den

Hot daughter aside, though, one of the best opinion letters I've read on the verdict comes from someone living in Baltimore, of all places:

http://forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=93852&tid=93852&eid=52&so=1&ps=0&sb=1
at 5:50 AM     

Blogger Marty said:

Sorry, here are a couple more succinct links to the Alana Black photos:

http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=74029516&epmid=1&partner=Google

http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=74390856&epmid=1&partner=Google

(Is there any way to edit our comments after we post them, by the way?)
at 5:53 AM     

Blogger jwb said:

I was pondering commenting about the Black trial, but we're going to be driving through fair Canada (aka "America's Hat") on the way to Detroit for Christmas and I didn't want to antagonize anyone unnecessarily. Nothing worse than a thin-skinned border official.

btw, Marty, what's your e-mail address? I tried e-mailing you that silly Kant thing that's been floating around the interwebs the last few days, but it got bounced back.
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