A recent study shows how elite universities have awarded thousands of master’s degrees that don’t provide enough career earnings to pay down the federal student loans. This is an issue that is dear to me: I explain why students “take such bets” and why universities are sometimes like the movie industry, and what could be done to improve the system.
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New York Times reported yesterday that MoviePass finally agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission that it deceived customers and made their service difficult to use. Quelle Surprise! A quick look at MoviePass, passwords, and movie-watching pre-covid.
Leave a CommentKnives Out is a modern throwback to classic Christie whodunits, complete with the imposing mansion, an old dead person, the usual assortment of idiosyncratic family members and backhanded political commentary. And the Pynchon Joke.
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I am dating myself here, Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood figure I admired, passed away at the age of 103. Here is an obituary in the Guardian. I really miss his old-fashioned masculinity. I adored his longevity and gracefulness in gentle aging. Anyway, the heartless metronome of time beats on, and as a sign of aging, the number of heroes I had is dwindling fast.
Here are 6 of my favorite Kirk Douglas movies…
Leave a CommentThings I loved in 2019 on Big screen/TV/Streaming, Podcasts and Music. The Guilty (Danish) is a beautifully acted, taut thriller. A demoted police officer assigned to call-dispatch gets an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. The call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the kidnapper begins.
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How should one rethink travel and culture? How do we really learn about places we visit? I review a “lost” treasure-set of books. Notes on Borges and death, La Jetée that influenced the birth of Science Fiction cyber punk, and rediscovering Ancient classics.
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