NipTuck /early fvr. really just their first season, v good. /FX likes also: shortlived for me TheRiches I did really like the pilot quite a lot and what that seemed to promise for the show is there somewhat for me now in Weeds 6th season: the conning (drugdealing but also straight up cons now really: as 6-8 Andy & Doug pretending to be pastors) family traveling together in a big RV (I just like families on the run in winnebagos? running away together, making do)... , anyway FX: also bit of RescueMe. and my one fvr comedy AlwaysSunny.
oh~ now-earlyDec Raising Hope makes two comedies I really like.

serious fvr

Life -- VeronicaMars -- Terriers

BreakingBad


BigLove will air last season starting Jan11.


TrueBlood /think of terry making military go-gestures. I really like this show, esp latest (3rd right) seasn. maybe I seem forget that really do like it. +! twopj recaps.

Weeds //this sixth season some appeal like The Riches premiere, see above, the conning family on the run together. and I always enjoy Andy, and even when the show is not esp fvr, the twopj recaps are a bonus
twopj recaps also a reason to watch prettylittleliars (+ hannah, spencer are int chars well-acted) and bits maybe of gossipgirl (also blair leighton meester v good, int char)


Parenthood -- {ModernFamily} -- {GilmoreGirls} shows can enjoy watching w mom. and at moments I love them. really like parenthood a very lot. esp: crosby. also julia. and amber. so Parenthood is the one show I seriously like that is not about: after-the-end. all the rest here are, after things fall apart. except~ Big Love, where the appeal, like Parenthood, is the emotional family interactions, though v different families!


oh: Lost. not first rate like BreakingBad or Terriers. but no other show so good at the imaginative. such involved imaginative discussion. and blows-your-mind story possibilites, esp season premieres or finales. reinvention of the story, with enough continuous substance that the reinvention is awesome .(rather than just: anything can happen, so, so what.) is Lost the most fun, the most thrills, of all shows?

fvr shows are re after-the-end: Life, Veronica Mars, Lost. BreakingBad.
also~ Weeds. and now Terriers.
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+ TheCloser I forget: some epsds really good, esp re Sanchez.
-- Dexter d not first rate but entertaining, and I v m like this season's victim chased through woods turned real lover
-- statesTara actually near first rate quality but ~ slight ~

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and shortlived: Kidnapped. veryshortlived butIveryliked: LoneStar. -
rg sad disappointed not renewed: Carnivale, Rubicon.

________________________________ notyet: Rubicon.
read about, admired but not actually gone real into: Carnivale. Deadwood. TheWire. ~Sopranos.

SixFeetUnder watched thr all but no special my involvemnt.

FridayNightLights shortlived involvemt, then no further not yet maybe later.
and

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of all above, currently airing: Dexter. Weeds. TERRIERS. & on network: Parenthood.

oh and In Treatment just realized airing currently. that gets to be on this list, serious fvr, at least wrt second season (and maybe the third, wh I hear is good); I d n like the first season, none of the patients m int me, not even the young gymnast m., but second season Walter (actor played Fraser's dad) superb, also April young girl w cancer and autistic (was it?) brother not telling anyone, and the little boy whose parents splitting up, boy w his turtle, asks to come live w Paul.. that leaves Hope, who was also smwh int, & Paul's sessions w Gina ~ okay. but impressive: three of five very moving to me.

will return in ~January: Big Love. ~March: Breaking Bad. statesofTara.
durn ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 4 Delayed: til July 2011. well that's ok.

'Terriers': You Can Read Proust | PopMatters:
Hank’s a private detective in San Diego, unlicensed. As such, he lives on a familiar kind of edge, the kind negotiated by ex-cops and recovering alcoholics. In the smart new FX series, Terriers, Hank has a few other accoutrements you’ve seen before—an ex-wife, Gretchen (Kimberly Quinn), whom he still loves, and an ex-partner, Detective Mark Gustafson (Rockmond Dunbar), whom he still trusts. He’s also got a scruffy new partner in his new detecting business, one-time thief, Britt (Michael Raymond-James). .. While the show provides some standard-seeming villains—expensively outfitted and imperious—it also pits Hank and Britt against or in league with a number of less obvious types, including Hank’s sister Steph (played by Logue’s own sister Karina Logue). When she shows up in the fourth episode, she helps to stretch your understanding of him, as he copes with her unexpected decision to go off her meds and exit the hospital where she’s been living. But she’s not just the crazy sister. Instead, Steph (an MIT grad) offers another view of Hank, in glimpses of their shared past and in her independent mind, made visible in frame compositions that tell story as well as dialogue. So, when he asks Gretchen to look after her for an afternoon, Steph walks through the background of their conversation in the kitchen, reminding them that she can hear them and reciting the “rules” concerning her care: “Don’t leave her around any sharp objects, don’t let her read any Proust,” she says, her figure out of focus as Hank and Gretchen also understand their parts in this knotty, multi-part relationship. “Never take her to the wild animal park, never serve her red wine with fish, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.” like the rules for gizmo so he doesn't lead to Gremlins, right. As Steph observes here, social propriety is arbitrary, no matter whom it’s designed to contain. “You can read Proust. Alright?” he says.

mmm. makes me feel better. partly bcs I am a less crazy sister, there are not rules for me (though maybe I'd like that = caretaking, someone else managing me, in charge) and partly bcs I like him a lot and he's good to her.


Hank’s own excesses, his steps outside such propriety, take a variety of forms. Britt has scenes apart from Hank—mostly with his incredibly insightful and patient girlfriend Katie (Lauren Allen)—but for the most part the show keeps you inside Hank’s experience. This means you see him share a particular language and sensibility with Steph, worry about Gretchen’s upcoming marriage to Jason (Loren Dean), and confess to his AA meeting that he’s buying their old house from her. When a fellow member advises against it—“You’ll be living in a museum of all your past mistakes”—the look on Hank’s face simultaneously conveys his agreement with this assessment, his lifetime of regret, and also his enduring optimism.
Like co-creator Shawn Ryan’s The Shield, Terriers features charismatic, complicated grown-ups wrestling with a lot of past mistakes, even as they continue to make them. Though Hank and Britt are accused repeatedly of behaving childishly, they know enough to see what they’re doing, and measure it against other so-called adult behavior (say, cheating on land development projects or following proper investigative procedures). Guys who’ve gone wrong now trying to go straight, they value loyalty and intelligence. So, when Mark warns Britt, “You gotta know he’s gonna let you down, it is not in Hank Dolworth to do anything but self-destruct on people and when he does, everybody catches shrapnel,” the new partner nods and listens, but takes the risk.

Nyr to re

Table of Contents: October 4, 2010 : The New Yorker:

borrowed fr K, felt like flipping thr most of th articles, but gave back hvg lkd at little ~ end bit of M Gladwell int me Wall St guy's friend loses phone left in NY cab uses web bullying (sounds to me) of teenager who found it & won't give it back, gets lots emails (sympathy? poor phone lost now stolen victim?) coverage (?), get police to treat as stolen & compel teenager to give back. huh. used as ex in talk given by Clay Shirky social network guy re cld not hv happened few yrs back. gladwell gets pnts fr me for skeptical th good of th. upping weak ties, lowering bar to participation ~ empowering th already privileged ~ well read rest article not sure got sense of his context. lunch counters.

Small Change
The truth about the Twitter Revolution.
by Malcolm Gladwell

and

David Fincher and “The Social Network.”
by David Denby

and also of int but blue square = avail only subscribers, can however read an abstract of th articles online (and there are web only accompaniments video audio document):

“Let Me In,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”
by Anthony Lane

Let Me In vampire adolescent unTwilight but not as good as the orig ~Swedish ~ here redonw Amer version

“To W.C.W.”
by Eunice Odio

poems end pg, and fr above was also int in

Searching for Silence
What John Cage heard.
by Alex Ross whose books I kn

The Next Incarnation
The Dalai Lama and Tibet’s future.
by Evan Osnos

The Scholar
Why was a brilliant student in a safe house?
by Jeffrey Toobin

web+ Documents: Rachel Yould’s plea for leniency.

and had not noted but now do and can read online
re Christine O'D now m in news is she ~ saw pconstant mentioned ggl zz


Bewitched
Christine O’Donnell’s peculiar past.
by Rebecca Mead oh R Mead fmlr fr early web rdg re blog? her NYr article, or there was her & another Rebecca I confuse conflate

and note

A Note to Our Readers
The New Yorker débuts on the iPad.
by The Editors

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finally & in the first place it was the back page cartoon caption contest motivated th borrowing in the first place
because I v m like th winner contest 253:

"In the end, Ed, most of us are carried along by our delusions."

R: who in pic carried by delusion? I say: both Ed and the speaker who is incl himslf as one of the most of us, his horse too, who knows, riding that saddle probably requires delusions too. R: who is not deluded? I say: a possible few, not here with these guys, not pictured, somebody else.

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+and I like the one in semifinals contest 255:

"I gather you both feel you're being manipulated."

"O.K., now do a tragedy." that's my fvr & I think of Bergson saying to do a comedy have actors sit down (body in to it). here they were standing, th puppets, top of chairs, expansive. so a show tune or so! and I like when the counselor can be talking both to the people down behind th chairs but also to th puppets the little people standing on the backs of the chairs. and K says he's caught up in it, for the moment.

"You need an agent, not a counsellor."

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+and th one up for captioning, wh I've seen the seminfinals & is now having votes counted so captions now shown here, will add link later, relay here now fr memory, and I liked contest 257

~ "At least he swims like a duck."

ducklings trailing parents ducks talking about th one w human face glasses. so rife w poss idioms like that one takes adv of ('if it walks like a duck, talks like a') or cld hv done sth w 'ducks in a row' esp wrt the glasses, like he just got them, so now finally the parent duck could be relieved that the nearsighted one can see and so she can keep all her ducklings in a row. or also sth w duck duck goose. but I d n think of and am very impressed, like goes a diff direction, a pun less ready-to-mind, and this one shld win, maybe genius:

"You should see his wing tips."

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso | LibraryThing:

-The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was celebrated in a wedding party at which the Greek gods came to mingle with mortals for the very last time. When the gods left, they announced that they were never coming back. As a parting gift to all of mankind, they left us the alphabet. Thus the marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the legendary birthplace of Western literature. Italian humanist Roberto Calasso chose that story as the anchor-stone for this explanatory and reverential tribute to the role of the gods in Western lit, folklore and mythology. Seldom do belles lettres become so accessible and so important to the common reader as Calasso and Parks present them here. 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony' is a worshipful, joyous, enlightening look at myth and literature and storytelling for all readers, everywhere. Read this book if you're into speculation about humanity, human origins, and primal causation (aka 'the divine spark'). ( )

dekesolomon | Sep 12, 2009 |

Suggestivo e affascinante.

francescocaligiuri | Jun 23, 2008 |

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso.

I read this book on the recommendation of a friend commenting on my blog. First published in English in 1993 it’s clearly something I should have picked up before. Or should I? Initially I felt, by turns, beguiled, exploited, delighted and even insulted. It seemed to me, before I was very far in, to be moving between the profound and the whimsical across the space of a single page. I was not sure whether I regarded it as an insightful interpretation of Greek mythology or a comic-book vision of the gods. I also felt that I should actually be reading Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, not just because it is usually better to read things in their original language but because it felt like a very Italian text even via the American English into which it has been translated. I was reminded of the style of Ripellino in his Praga Magica. Perhaps ‘style’ is the best way to approach a description of the book. Its originality of presentation of the gods owes everything to its style. The way things are said is as significant as what is said. Once I had accommodated myself to that I began to enjoy it.

And there is much to enjoy. There was a time when Cadmus and Harmony could get married at Thebes and the gods would come to the wedding. But since then they have withdrawn, to Olympus and further off. The Golden Age and its dissolution through Silver to Iron and Bronze is chronicled here with as much élan as could be wished for. But those stretches of apparent frivolity, crystallize into some cameos which are worth reading the book for in themselves:

"Dionysus is not a useful god who helps weave or knot things together, but a god who loosens and unties. The weavers are his enemies. Yet there comes a moment when the weavers will leave their looms and dash off after him into the mountains. Dionysus is the river we hear flowing by in the distance, an incessant booming from far away; then one day it rises and floods everything, as if the normal above-water state of things, the sober delimitation of our existence, were but a brief parenthesis overwhelmed in an instant."

This is brilliant stuff and brings the gods alive in a way that other works rarely do. If I consider how else readers of English might gain an understanding of these gods, I suppose the comprehensive text that would be referred to is Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths. Graves is himself often whimsical and irreverent, but compared to Calasso his is a mere reference book, and one than can itself deceive by appearing to be so definitive when he is, of course, as liable to be arbitrary in his interpretations and definitions as is Calasso. But with the Italian it is all on the surface, part of appearance, as he himself defines one aspect of the gods. Besides, this is a book to be read through; Graves’ two volumes sit on the reference shelf to be consulted rather than followed as narrative.

I must, finally, comment on the presentation of the relationship between Odysseus and Athena. I found it epiphanic. I’ll resist the temptation to quote from it as it’s the sort of thing best discovered rather than isolated from its context. And here I have to concede that the apparently arbitrary way that Calasso throws in brief paragraphs of information between longer stretches of narrative and illustration, creating an apparently disjointed structure, as if wondering where this bit or that bit can best be fitted in, is not so whimsical after all. He has created a form that is disconcertingly effective, encompassing the many contradictions which can thwart the task of description and casting light, sometimes directly but often elliptically on his subjects. "In the beginning was the word" says the christian text. In Calasso's view, for the gods, it was more like the end. Except that his words attempt to reclaim them as the only way to lead an interesting life

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