Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.
—Michel Houellebecq
Posts tagged life:
Should actors with restricted growth take the jobs that are there or shun them out of principle for fear of letting the side down?
How HBO revolutionized television 
HBO’s raising of the bar for television has inevitably spawned imitators. It is difficult to imagine AMC’s smoothly-paced Mad Men or Showtime’s explicit comedy drama Californication without HBO’s boundary-breaking antecedents. Even traditional networks have upped their game: ABC’s zesty mockumentary Modern Family has just won its second Emmy for outstanding comedy series. A benign cycle is under way.
Viewers are being treated with intelligence and respect, and TV as an art form is rising rapidly through the ranks. A cultural paradox is playing itself out: as previously elitist art forms such as contemporary art become more accessible (and in many cases more superficial), the mass entertainment industry of television has begun to nurture its own elites.
In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious
the country that is the US
The world’s largest employers, in one chart
(via Ezra Klein and The Economist)
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
—Rosamund Lupton (Sister)
Focusing On Problems Instead Of Solutions
Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what’s wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
when you start envying people their nervous breakdowns, it’s probably time to start examining your own life a bit more closely.
—Jonathan Tropper - Everything Changes
Anarchy and Austerity: Why London Won't Be the Last City to Burn
For 100 years, across the world, more cuts have led to more crime
15 Percent of Americans Are Now on Food Stamps
the country that is the US
a must see video about exploring New York City’s underground
Set up by an epidemiologist named Dr Gary Slutkin, CeaseFire approaches violence from a public health perspective. Slutkin believes that violence should be treated not as a moral crisis but as a preventable disease.
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