Peep this sweet video tribute to Whitney Houston by my musically talented hombre Alex Walker.
My disdain for e-books and e-readers is well known. As a writer, I recognize that this is the direction publishing is leaning toward, I get that, but I still don’t like them shits. Give me a good old fashioned paper book anytime. Word to Jonathan Franzen.
That’s why I was highly amused by this parody of Amazon Kindle commercials, which touts the benefits of actual, physical, normal books.
Literary magazine The Missouri Review found and posted this instructional video on how to read a book you don’t want to read. Hey, it’s exactly what it says on the tin, folks.
Reading a book you don’t want to read is like cutting down a large tree tucked between three houses; it’s best done piece-by-piece, chapter-by-chapter. Here’s how to do it, from Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook.
It appears that Matthew Broderick is reprising his iconic Ferris Bueller character for a commercial of some sort that will air during Super Bowl XLVI. This is all speculation based on the above ten-second teaser unearthed by Vulture. As they state:
It’s not so shocking that an advertiser would bank on Broderick/Bueller’s enduring legacy as a righteous dude, but one does wonder what exactly Bueller would be up to or endorsing these days, given that he’d now be about 44.