Stephen Galloway puzzles over doomed screen adaptations, starting with John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces — “now on indefinite hold” — and surveying a few other big-budget options that didn’t pan out. Among other things, he notes that “Warners owned rights to Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History for years before Miramax took it over, only to drop . . .
According to Microsoft Word, these sentences are grammatically correct: Marketing are bad for brand big and small. You Know What I am Saying? It is no wondering that advertisings are bad for company in America, Chicago and Germany. Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft. Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check. Sandeep Krishnamurthy, a University of Washington . . .
Not only do the teetering and battered stacks and shelves of books lining my apartment keep me amused for days on end, they scare most people away (i.e., enable me to give free rein to my burgeoning agoraphobia). If you’re looking for a shortcut, this haunted bookshelf will surely seal the deal. (Via Bookninja.)
Sarah Boxer continues her snide assault (see a reference to part one here) on bloggers and Internet discourse generally, arguing that the Web’s offerings are nothing more than “lists of lists.” But About Last Night, The Elegant Variation, Return of the Reluctant, Sarah Weinman, and many other blogs I read — just go to the article; there’s no point in . . .
Yesterday the Colorado Supreme Court threw out a death sentence in a rape-and-murder case after discovering that jurors copied verses from the Bible while deciding how to sentence the defendant. Agreeing with the defense attorney’s argument that the jurors went beyond the law in administering the sentence, the court observed: At least one juror in this case could have been . . .