No commentary here, just look at the pictures and listen to Julie Jacobson talk about a firefight in Afghanistan that cost the life of one Marine, Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard.
RIP, Lance Cpl. Bernard.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
NYT Mag explores Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are"
I have a feeling that this is going to be a great movie that is a tremendous flop at the box office.
But this sounds intriguing:
But this sounds intriguing:
“It’s in the visual language of, like, some sort of fantasy film, and it is a fantasy film to some degree,” [Spike Jonze] acknowledged, “but the tone of it is its own tone. We wanted it all to feel true to a 9-year-old and not have some big movie speech where a 9-year-old is suddenly reciting the wisdom of the sage.” He hadn’t set out to make a children’s movie, he said, so much as to accurately depict childhood. “Everything we did, all the decisions that we made, were to try to capture the feeling of what it is to be 9.”And just for the hell of it, here's Jonze's video for the song Sabotage by the Beastie Boys, with some bonus footage at the beginning and end:
Lacrosse brawl!
Lacrosse did something bigger than college football -- a bigger brawl. While the Oregon-Boise State "fight" was only one punch and a player being restrained from pulling a Ron Artest and going into the crowd.
But this lacrosse brawl, which Deadspin says "lasted ten minutes, resulted in 173 penalty minutes, and led to ten players (including both back-up goalies) getting tossed" definitely topped that.
What caught me is that, like hockey, there is a ritualized, traditional way of doing this. Two guys challenge each other, shed pads, gloves and then proceed to grab onto each other's jersey and attempt to punch the other guy in the face as hard as possible.
All while a ref stands there and watches it go down, only intervening when the fight goes to the ground or one player is too badly hurt. It's bizarre -- imagine if you saw this go down in, say, college basketball.
But this lacrosse brawl, which Deadspin says "lasted ten minutes, resulted in 173 penalty minutes, and led to ten players (including both back-up goalies) getting tossed" definitely topped that.
What caught me is that, like hockey, there is a ritualized, traditional way of doing this. Two guys challenge each other, shed pads, gloves and then proceed to grab onto each other's jersey and attempt to punch the other guy in the face as hard as possible.
All while a ref stands there and watches it go down, only intervening when the fight goes to the ground or one player is too badly hurt. It's bizarre -- imagine if you saw this go down in, say, college basketball.
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