Reminds me of playing speed chess in Washington Square: Chess Without Turns.
Essentially the strategy against newbs is get the queen in action as soon as possible and go on the offensive. Against more advanced players, you have to play defense, attempting to take out their powerful players until all they have is pawns.
One must be astonished totally, yet more and more softly. That is how eternity wonders at the times and changes them. One must wonder at the wonders. And also at the wounds, the deepest and last wounds, and elevate them to the wondrous.
—from the diary of Hugo Ball, 21 November, 1921
A truly excellent gift: Bourbon and Brass Knuckles in a suitcase.
Studio Multitrack recording of Gimme Shelter. Keith Richards’s lead guitar really shines. Now, on to spending the rest of my evening pulling out samples from all of the other tracks.
An excellent essay on the Star Wars hexilogy, by Keith Martin. I doubt that this remotely resembles anything that ever crossed George Lucas mind, however, looking at all six movies in this light adds quite a bit of depth to the movies. So much so, that I think if Chewie and R2 were supposed to be as important as this essay postulates, the movies would have been much different. Lucas doesn’t have a subtle bone in his body.
And one of my most vivid childhood dreams made real:
Also, pan and tilt camera on an RC plane. The rest of the videos on that youtube page are also amazing…
NYPD’s Ray Kelly’s statement on the big FBI Mafia bust yesterday. Marlon Brando, longshoreman, and general badassery.
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