I never had the pleasure of meeting Walker Percy. I have had the pleasure of reading him though. The novelist died in May 1990. Out of curiosity I went looking for a video of Percy and found this nearly 10-minute speech, where he accepted the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame at their [...]
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So I was recently reading James Lipton’s autobiography, Inside Inside. In remembering his late friend George Plimpton, who died in September 2003, he mentioned discussing Plimpton with Charlie Rose. I had missed that show back in 2003, so I was happy to find it online. Here it is.
Inside Inside
As described by Google Video:
First, a conversation [...]
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Whenever I discover a gap in my television/pop culture culture, I have an immediate need to fill that gap. Aviva Kempner’s documentary, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, was an important person and project I knew nothing about. To fill this information chasm, I contacted Kempner for an email interview. As detailed at the Cielsa Foundation website: “Ciesla [...]
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Thanks to a tweet by SomeBadIdeas (and a retweet by Colin Meloy [of the Decemberists]) I got to watch this YouTube clip of some 1985 news coverage for a Cocteau Twins appearance in Columbus, Ohio.
I’m not sure if my favorite part is the fellow with a typewriter or the concertgoer who explains “I’m a genetics [...]
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As most everyone has heard, the newspaper industry is slowly being cut into smaller and smaller pieces, thanks to a tough economy, market share loss to other media outlets and a dwindling advertising base. I think as the industry continues to shrink (and their budgets along with it), we will see less and less human [...]
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