I have a couple links to share, all NY-related.
First: The NY Times has an article about turning garbage into fuel. It's a strange article, focusing mostly on the venture capital aspects of the story--can these startups make the process feasible? Which is a legit angle, but I'd like to see them factor in other considerations, like "mining" landfill and reclaiming trash dumps.
And wasn't there a city in the midwest that was drawing power from sewage treatment? Akron, maybe? I'd like to hear how that's turning out.
Second: The NY Yankees confiscate all sunblock from fans to protect against terrorist attacks. But don't worry! If you need protection from the sun on a 98-degree July day, you can buy 1 oz of SPF15 sunblock inside the stadium--for five bucks.
Security theater=Good business.
Third: A.O. Scott hopes superhero movies begin to bust. Frankly, I think he's missing the point. It's not the fact that they're big-budget superhero movies that make them thematically simple. It's that they're big-budget movies, period. Yeah, I know that there have been big-budget films that would meet his criteria for "lofty, serious themes," but blockbuster superhero films have only become successful as a genre in the last few years. Give it time to mature, dude. And learn to accept the compromises that big financial risks require.
First: The NY Times has an article about turning garbage into fuel. It's a strange article, focusing mostly on the venture capital aspects of the story--can these startups make the process feasible? Which is a legit angle, but I'd like to see them factor in other considerations, like "mining" landfill and reclaiming trash dumps.
And wasn't there a city in the midwest that was drawing power from sewage treatment? Akron, maybe? I'd like to hear how that's turning out.
Second: The NY Yankees confiscate all sunblock from fans to protect against terrorist attacks. But don't worry! If you need protection from the sun on a 98-degree July day, you can buy 1 oz of SPF15 sunblock inside the stadium--for five bucks.
Security theater=Good business.
Third: A.O. Scott hopes superhero movies begin to bust. Frankly, I think he's missing the point. It's not the fact that they're big-budget superhero movies that make them thematically simple. It's that they're big-budget movies, period. Yeah, I know that there have been big-budget films that would meet his criteria for "lofty, serious themes," but blockbuster superhero films have only become successful as a genre in the last few years. Give it time to mature, dude. And learn to accept the compromises that big financial risks require.
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- 14 Jan 2019, 21:47Oh, yeah, excellent point.
- 14 Jan 2019, 21:46Oh yeah. Like the lawyers who get obvious really venal criminals off because it makes their success rate look good. But those are not the ones I am referring to in meaning well. These guys are mixed…
- 14 Jan 2019, 20:37This reminds me of the time my wife was injured and the insurance guy handling her case did everything possible to deny and stall the payment. We had to put her surgery on a credit card because this…
- 14 Jan 2019, 19:24The creepiest part is that some of them are actually well meaning.
- 14 Jan 2019, 19:08Yeah. It's godawful what people will do when they have authority and no fear about using it.
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I'm so envisioning you doing Marlon Brando doing Sakini from Teahouse of the August Moon when you say that.
I like Glenn Ford, but I've never been a big fan of Brando. I know most everyone loves him, but he always seems to be Acting! and I can never enjoy the movie.
I'll give ... August Moon a chance at some point, though, if only to see something equal good business. :)
Not as much as you'd find in an Iranian kite movie, maybe, but it was much better than I expected.