The Age serves up a list of films slicing up Raymond Carver’s stories. (via Slushpile)
Year / 2006
Keywords for Dwight Garner
Return of the Reluctant has uncovered a secret BlogSpot blog belonging to Dwight Garner. Unfortunately, the blog was taken down shortly after we discovered it, but we were able to uncover the following keywords from Dwight’s page:
book editor, greatest book editor ever, nothing but the New York Times Book Review, nothing else matters, Kiss Sam’s ass, Kiss Sam’s ass, Kiss Sam’s ass, I hate brownies, hate bloggers, hate bloggers, bloggers must die, Mark Childress must die
David Brent in Microsoft Training Videos
To watch later: David Brent in two 20-minute Microsoft training videos.
I Have No Break But This
Is JetBlue Racist?
I fly JetBlue all the time, but this terrible story from Raed Jarrar, who was asked to remove his T-shirt because it contained Arabic script that “offended passengers” (never mind that nobody could read the shirt), has me rethinking the airline. Calls will be made tomorrow. (via Maud)
[UPDATE: It’s worth noting that, last October, Lorrie Heasley was ejected from a Southwest flight for wearing a Meet the Fockers parody T-shirt. Heasley vowed to file a civil rights lawsuit, but I can find no trace of it. But in a New York Times article, two law professors remarked that the Heasley case doesn’t apply to the First Amendment because only the government can violate the Constitution. Writing in Salon, Andrew Salon remarked upon this troubling predicament.]