"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
— Orson Welles
“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
– The Princess Bride
MARK STEYN ON DEATH WISH, THEN AND NOW.
I haven’t seen Bruce Willis’ remake yet, but I’m not sure if it can top this earlier Bronson revenge pic
Great behind-the-scenes look at the Spike Jonze / FKA Twigs Apple ad from a couple weeks ago. I *love* the practical effects they used.
It’s impossible to bottle a parliamentary library’s therapeutic powers, but it’s understandable why one would try ...
Seven Brutal Truths That Will Make Your Life Better If You Accept Them
A woman struggling to write a novel becomes writer-in-residence at her local tire shop.
This is Amy — a writer who was struggling on her latest book. But after taking her car in to get new tires, she ended up cranking out about 4,000 words in the waiting room.
“The two ways," Kierkegaardwrote. "One is to suffer; the other is to become a professor of the fact that another suffered.” But few suffered as much as the woman who loved him It was the whisper on whisper that made her suffer
On the 100th day since the arrest of Reuters journalists Wa Lone
and Kyaw Soe Oo, the National Press Club of Australia joins its
counterparts in clubs throughout Asia calling for their immediate release.