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: fictionalbrandsarchive.com An impressive collection of brands that appear in film, tv, and video games. There is now a book as well: …
: "First Fall" by Maggie Smith I’m your guide here. In the evening-dark morning streets, I point and name. Look, the sycamores, their mottled, paint-by-number bark. Look, the leaves …
: Our Real Work By Wendell Berry It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which …
: If anyone has any recommended essays or writings on the subject of “taste” — as in critical judgment, discernment, or appreciation — I’d love to hear …
: This would be my nightmare if I got on the show.
: The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell I learned this poem as a child and it always comes to mind as soon as I see the first flurries of winter. But what I just realized when I looked it up …
: Watched The Mastermind tonight, Kelly Reichardt’s latest. Like her other work, it’s subtly brilliant. Her films are always deeper than they first …
: “In most cases, people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more naive than we generally suppose. And the same is true of you and me.” –The Brothers …
: In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht
: Hymnological Rabbit Trail Restore my soul, O God. There are green pastures around me for which my eye has no lens; there are quiet waters beside me for which my ear has no …
: “A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it, too.” – George MacDonald
: South Carolina. The once-every-three-years ice/snow storm brings out a member of the neighborhood to plow with his own tractor. He wears shorts. Other …
: Train Dreams was not quite Malick, but Malickesque in a good way, so I’ll take it. Worth it for the beauty of the imagery.