Author Archives: Jenn
So sad about Anthony Shadid
What a great writer. What a great loss. Anthony Shadid, currently reporting for The New York Times, apparently died today in Syria after an asthma attack. From the Times’s front page story: Jill Abramson, the executive editor, informed the newspaper’s … Continue reading
Chipotle = Apple?
Matt Yglesias argues, “In many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone.” It’s an interesting theory. I know which one I’d rather have for lunch, but the stores have a certain symmetry. I did not know this … Continue reading
Review: The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach My rating: 4 of 5 stars Halfway through this book, I had to set it down for a few days. “I want to read more, but I don’t want to read more,” I … Continue reading
Attention, Mr. Saha: You are in a spy movie
If this happened to me, I’d immediately get a hat and sunglasses and a bus ticket in someone else’s name directly for the border, because there’s just no way this doesn’t mean you’re about to be in computer-security action movie. … Continue reading
Brad Pitt Questioned in Hollywood Murder; Hollywood Crime Writers Sue over Life Imitating Art
Here’s my question about the fact that Brad Pitt and his bodyguard apparently answered a few questions about the head and, eventually, hands and feet of 66-year-old Hervey Medellin, which appeared on a hiking trail near Pitt’s Hollywood home: Will … Continue reading
A faint stirring of political interest
This morning, I spent a solid twenty minutes re-acquainting myself with the media critique (I’m using the term a bit loosely) of Erik Wemple at the Washington Post. Mr. Wemple had a piece — actually, two pieces — up about … Continue reading
Memo to Jeremy Renner re: Your Axe Fight
So, you’re Jeremy Renner, and you were just in Mission Impossible: Jumping Off Tall Buildings, and while Tom Cruise was doing his own stunts off the side of the world’s largest building, you were magnetically attached to a robot cart … Continue reading
