Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Moving Week Media News While cleaning off my desk . . .
Posted by Michael Miner on 07.31.12 at 05:42 PM
US COLE ATTACK
WARNING IGNORED
A 40 x 40-foot hole had been blown in the side of the Cole by a suicide bomber during a refueling stop in Yemen two weeks earlier. Seventeen sailors died. The article reported that a Pentagon intelligence analyst had warned of "impending terrorist attacks" but the warning wasn't passed along to military commanders. A later warning, of "imminent terrorist activity" in Yemen, wasn't acted on.
The thing is, the attack on the Cole was itself a warning: al Qaeda was at war against the United States. If taken as seriously as the 9/11 attacks 11 months later, it might have prevented them. But it was not.
Seriously? Music Four surprising things about the new Wallflowers single
Posted by Miles Raymer on 07.31.12 at 03:51 PM
2. Mick Jones from the Clash is actually on it.
3. Unlike the output of other earnest turn-of-the-millennium pop-rock bands giving themselves dance-floor makeovers, it's completely free of any douche-chill-inducing self-embarrassment.
4. I like it.
Check it out for yourself after the jump.
Style Sports The science of swimsuits
Posted by Heather Kenny on 07.31.12 at 03:19 PM
- speedousa.com
One Bite Food Chain Food & Drink One Bite: the mother of all schnitzel sandwiches at Olga's Deli
Posted by Mike Sula on 07.31.12 at 01:50 PM
- Mike Sula
- Four-story chicken schnitzel sandwich
You'd need the cranial kinesis of a boa constrictor to get this absurdly gigantic sandwich between your jaws. The four-layer chicken schnitzel at Irving Park's Olga's Deli is the crowning glory in a small but astonishing repertoire, but it's the lunchtime ritual of lining up and ordering from the eponymous Olga, who is the embodiment of generosity, that gives this towering construction an ineffable appeal.
Foreign Film Remembering Chris Marker
Posted by Jordan Larson on 07.31.12 at 12:44 PM
I first encountered La Jetée—Marker's 1962 international debut and best-known film—in high school. I was just beginning to cut my teeth on cinema, and the sparse, 27-minute short film I found at the library left me with arresting images and apocalypse-fueled dreams. A few months later I saw 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam's amped-up reimagining of Marker's story, and couldn't stand it. A mix of romance, war film, and science fiction dystopia, La Jetée is composed (almost) entirely of still images. Photos are linked together, voice-over narration is dropped on top, and somehow the film becomes much greater than the sum of its parts.
Music Post No Bills The even more experimental side of Zappa keyboardist Don Preston
Posted by Peter Margasak on 07.31.12 at 12:31 PM
12 O'Clock Track Music 12 O'Clock Track: AC4, "Fuck the Pigs"
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 07.31.12 at 12:00 PM
On Video Film What's new again: Claude Chabrol's Les Cousins
Posted by Ben Sachs on 07.31.12 at 10:10 AM
Mudville Sports Faster, higher, stronger—younger
Posted by Ted Cox on 07.31.12 at 08:50 AM
- Wikimedia Commons
- Hope Solo: Shut up and step aside, Brandi.
'Twas ever thus, of course, in the world of sport, but I've been struck by how this particular theme—pervasive as it's been—has been ignored by most of the media, at least as an overall trend.
Moving Week Film Turning my office inside-out
Posted by J.R. Jones on 07.31.12 at 06:45 AM
An eight-inch rubber sperm I got in the mail as promo for the movie Seed of Chucky. The big sperm also came with a condom labeled “Get a Load of Chucky,” which I stapled to the bulletin board at one point, so it’s probably no good now.
