Lit Kicks features an informative post by Michael Norris on absinthe, including this description of the feeling it brings on:
“I began to experience a nice, mellow buzz. Unlike whiskey, which tends to dull the senses, absinthe brings about a clarity of mind that is unusual in an alcoholic beverage. I didn
In his “The Game” column the other day, the Wall Street Journal’s Dennis K. Berman did a column on BHP Billington’s $132b offer for Rio Tinto, which would bring together two of the world’s largest mining companies. His column included this quote:
“In the 19th century, countries were prone to dispatch navies to secure a flow of goods. Today, they send investment bankers.”
I smiled at the idea, which clearly is true, and immediately my mind went to the sketch that opens Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life,” which I still rank as their greatest work:
Amazing, how the Pythons pull it all together here …
A friend who is studying film at UCLA just shot me a link to this clip that she directed. Neat stuff. She’s come a long way since she interned with us in Knoxville …