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Thank you, New York Magazine. A glance through the movie listings for that week in 1975 revealed Serpico, The Godfather Part II, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Sting, The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, American Graffiti, Fellini’s Amaracord and Satyricon, Scenes from a Marriage, Murder on the Orient Express, among others from Cassavetes, etc.

–Video of Robert Lustig discussing sugar and its toxic effects: via NYT

pale horse and the last fiesta

Yvon Chouinard, one of the founders of Patagonia, produced this clip of Johnny Cunningham climbing Ben Nevis, a notoriously difficult waterfall ascent in Scotland, in 1976. The loose bass-line and shimmering cymbals that follow Cunningham from road to ferry to sheep-field and talus-strewn mountainside belie the jagged and unpredictable climb to come. And somehow he filled out the day with a visit to the Glencoe Malt Whisky distillery.

The BBC ran a documentary on the beauty of maps nearly a year ago. The series was unavailable in the US, but it’s up on youtube and sequenced as a playlist in its entirety.

It is more of a business to interpret the opinions than to interpret the text, and there are more books on books than on any subject: all we do is gloss each other…

Our opinions graft themselves onto each other. The first serves as stock for the second, the second for the third. And so we climb up, step by step. It thus transpires that the one who has honor often has more honor than he deserves, since he has climbed only one speck higher on the shoulders of his predecessors.

—Montaigne: via Essays