The Adventures of Link
Dad sends this joke: “If you get a hankering to take all your clothes off, a bottle of Windex will keep you from streaking!”
In other news:
- Hearing Voices No. 86 is a Kitchen Sisters documentary about radio station WHER in Memphis, Tennessee, the first “all-girl” station in the United States.
- Surely Charles Bowden’s “Teachings of Don Fernando” is the best eulogy of a drug informant ever written. I wager it is also one of the better essays of the last decade: stark prose that marvels at a man whose decades-long success as an informant was built wholly on the belief that he knew who he was.
- Bowden’s March 2000 essay “Ike and Lyndon” is also good. By coming to terms with Lyndon Johnson, it goes a long way toward explaing how George W. Bush happened, too.
- “Ultimately what was decisive for me was not the bill, but rather the potential to create an opening for a more comprehensive approach toward health care reform. If the bill were to go down, this whole discussion about anything we might hope to do in health care in the future is not going to happen in this generation.”—Dennis Kucinich, on how he came to vote yea on the Affordable Care Act
- Avatar, says Daniel Mendelsohn, is James Cameron’s most significant reimagining of The Wizard of Oz yet. I buy the allusion, but Caleb Crain got the analogy right.
