1. An analysis of my reading habits in 2010:
Books that I read, cover to cover: approximately 30.
Books that I spent a good deal of time reading, but either started and didn’t finish, or read only lengthy excerpts of: approximately 25.
2. Norwegian men of the year (to qualify one must be named Edvard): Munch and Grieg.
2. Norwegian men of the year (to qualify one must be named Edvard): Munch and Grieg.
3. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (one of my new favorite people) and his film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and, praise the Queen!, was showing in London, where I finally saw it and became entirely enamored. There is a v. nice summary of Uncle Boonmee here, though I also highly recommend putting the original Thai title into Google translate:
4. The difference between the real and the surreal, more specifically: my increasing inability to distinguish them. There is reality TV, for one thing, which shouldn’t be real but is, and then obviously wax people who are not made of wax, and women laughing alone with salad.
5. Hedonism, which often takes the form of a search for the perfect chocolate muffin (found, at long last, on Charing Cross Road). As we were snacking on the street, my friend whom I was with declared, “This is the best muffin in the entire world. I like that I can be v. hedonistic around you.”
6. Commemorating instances of cosmic unfairness and/or explaining medieval literature by writing limericks.
5. Hedonism, which often takes the form of a search for the perfect chocolate muffin (found, at long last, on Charing Cross Road). As we were snacking on the street, my friend whom I was with declared, “This is the best muffin in the entire world. I like that I can be v. hedonistic around you.”
6. Commemorating instances of cosmic unfairness and/or explaining medieval literature by writing limericks.
Einstein famously derided entanglement as "spukhafte Fernwirkung" or "spooky action at a distance".
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