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He Said Emphatically
Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said.” ELMORE LEONARD #amwriting #writing #writetip
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9to5Mac’s got pictures of parts (The repair company iFixyouri has the actual parts) that are allegedly from the new iPhone. Looks to be pretty legit. I’m not thrilled about the headphone jack moving to the bottom. I’m also (still) not a fan of the metal back plate. Let’s hope that this is still just an early design.
> Moonrise Kingdom Dominates The Box Office (Art House Division)
Tara Ariano writes:
How limited is the release of Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom? Well, as this reporter discovered on Friday, it didn’t even open in Canada. But even without the powerhouse Canadian audience driving ticket sales, Kingdom opened huge: According to Deadline, it took in an average of $130,752 in four U.S. locations over the long weekend, thus setting a new specialty box office record.
“‘It’s like we’ve been flung back in time,’ he said. ‘Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do to make life easier for the Stone Agers? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light? We experience these things every day of our lives but what good does it do if we find ourselves hurled back in time and we can’t even tell people the basic principles much less actually make something that would improve conditions. Name one thing you could make. Could you make a simple wooden match that you could strike on a rock to make a flame? We think we’re so great and modern. Moon landings, artificial hearts. But what if you were hurled into a time warp and came face to face with the ancient Greeks. The Greeks invented trigonometry. They did autopsies and dissections. What could you tell an ancient Greek that he couldn’t say, ‘Big deal.’ Could tell you him about the atom? Atom is a Greek word. The Greeks knew that the major events in the universe can’t be seen by the eye of man. It’s waves, it’s rays, it’s particles.’”
– Don DeLillo, “White Noise”
> Killer Mike Reviews His Reviews
My co-conspirator Brian Francis told me to check out Killer Mike’s album recently, and I was pretty impressed. If you were a Cannibal Ox fan, you’ll want to listen, strictly to hear El-P’s production and to hear what Can Ox could have been rapping over if they still existed in 2012.
On a sidenote, El-P’s new album was just added to Spotify.
> Every Line of Dialogue Rihanna Says in Battleship
Sarah Lawson writes:
Rihanna’s film debut is a memorable one. The Barbadian singer is wet for much of Battleship, her Navy uniform is uncommonly flattering, and the majority of her dialogue is composed of exclamations. It’s a veritable master class in one-line utterances. Most of her lines fall into one of several categories: sassy (“Get up, princess!”), confused (“What the hell is that?”) or surprisingly competent (“Contact two miles out.”) But enough of this. Let Rihanna speak for herself.
I think my favorite is: ”(Heavy sigh)”
/via Roxane Gay
