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- When Novels Mattered
- Leonhard Cohen’s Last Words
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- 35 and Single: An Argentine Woman Documents One Big Question
- Adam Gopnik on JFK
- Building Meaning in a Secular Society
- A Few Good Lines by Samuel Beckett
- The Japanese People
- The Midterm Election Analysis: In politics, perceptions often matter more than facts
- General Sherman: “War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.”
- I’m glad I am not David Cameron or Barak Obama
- Private Cooling: Al and Tipper Gore separate
- I like this Paul Rand Graphic
- Michael Jackson Explained
- David Brooks dissects the Decline on the Republican Party
- David Brooks Explains the Reemergence of the Conservative Party in the UK
- What Does a President Really Do All Day?
- The Smell of Romantic Attraction
- How the Brain Makes Moral Judgments
- Nobel Lecture: My Father’s Suitcase
- Jazz Washes Away the Dust of Everyday Life
- For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn
- Where is Paradise?
- How Christian Dominations Reacted to Modern Science
- The Dalai Lama and Science
- Is Christianity Compatible with Republican Values?
- Happiness Through the Ages
- William Wordsworth on Good and Evil
- Transfixed in the Cineplex
- Winslow Homer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
- Lincoln’s Great Drepression
- A Conservative Columnist updates Karl Marx
- Why It Often Rains in the Movies
- The Golden Dream Goes on and on in Southern California
- Interesting Article in the New Yorker: “The Mistress’s Daughter”
- A Myth of Devotion
Curious News
- Melania – The Film
- The Transformation of Majorie Taylor Greene
- Rupert Murdoch marries again
- Snow in the Sahara Dessert
- An Unusual Love Story
- Stunning Story: “Not all Happy Families are alike”
- An insider’s confession of tabloid journalism in the UK
- The Last Days of a Dictator
- The Cliffhanger: Will the US default and usher in a new era?
- 87-year-old Nigerian faith healer has 86 wives
- Women are Smarter than Men
- Optical Illusion
- 18 Days of Eqypt: NY Time Photo Diary of the Remarkable Events
- WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety
- T-Shirt Message: “Meaningful Overnight Relationship Wanted”
- Should we mourn the disappearance of the Rocky Mountains locusts?
- In the Name of Science, I offer my Boobs
- Twitter Yourself into a Historical Figure
- An Amazing Nordic Tale
- How singing up for the military can save your life
- Generation Gap in Music Tastes
- “The most surreal day of my life”
- Five Living Presidents: What distinguishes them…
- Catholic Heaven & Hell: The Pope Visits America
- The Pregnant Man
- Grandma, what are you doing naked in bed?
- Marriages aren’t made for heaven
- Love and Fraud over the Internet
- Judas: From Traitor to Loyal Friend
- Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
- My Sperm as Big Business
- A Lady who Pratices what she Preaches
- A Different Portrait of America
- Turning a Confession into a Small Work of Art
- Prince Charles to Marry His Lover
- The Knight “Georg Murmann”
- Mariage in 17th Century America
Must Know
- The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are
- Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces
- The Transformation of Majorie Taylor Greene
- Jimmy Kimmel is back on air
- A Little Alcohol Won’t Kill You or Make You Stronger
- Do also strength training
- AI wrote this poem
- Joe Biden Inauguration speech was great
- Powerful Video Art
- 37% for Dictator in USA
- Joker
- All politicians lie but some lie more
- Before we go
- Overpopulation in Pictures
- Share this with your boss: Naps help productivity
- Art can improve upon Nature
- War may be coming to Mid-East
- The Limits of Empathy
- Watch Magic :)
- Why you need to take naps
- Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
- How to Train the Aging Brain
- Avoiding Cancer: What works and what doesn’t
- A New Interpretation of Dreams
- Human evolution: Why we love Music?
- Meet the real Sarah Palin
- Obama gives an electrifying speech in Denver
- The Neural Buddhists
- The latest recommenations for achieving an optimal diet
- Are men and women different in how they chose their dates?
- News from the battle between Science and Religion
- God and the Human Brain
- Donate to the Red Cross for Hurricane Relief
- Getting Addicted to “24”
- Love and Passion Reconsidered
- Talk is cheap but surprisingly effective
- “I only need 5 hours of sleep.” Liar!
- What George F. Kennan might have written about the thread of Al Queida
- The Science of Love
- Unite Against the Power Nap Killers!
Politics
- This WSJ editorial line made me laugh out loud
- Melania – The Film
- Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces
- Trump speaks to NY Times for two hours
- Jimmy Kimmel is back on air
- Elon Musk is for free trade between USA and Europe
- The Trump Show Continues
- From Marx to MAGA
- Best Video Recap of the Harris-Trump Debate I have seen
- Why America is vulnerable to a despot
- SNL funny take on Trump’s indictment
- My favorite music at the Presidential Inauguration 2021
- Stunning Inauguration Poem by 22-year-old Amanda Gorman
- Joe Biden Inauguration speech was great
- Georgia on my mind
- 37% for Dictator in USA
- Biden TRiUMPhed – A new era begins
- Biden win is 70%
- The nightmare might end
- Peggy Noonan gives an interesting rationale for why Bolton and Biden should be called as witnesses
- Small majority for Impeachment
- Impeachment
- Impeachment Was on the Family Table This Thanksgiving
- Tumultuous scenes as Parliament inflicts 6th loss on PM and is sent home for 5 weeks
- Will King Boris lead the the UK to fall apart
- This week with Trump
- G7 meeting – one photo sums it up
- I am am a very stable genius
- Trump Got Wolffed
- Peggy Noonan: “Democracy Is Not Your Plaything”
- Good Summary of the Week: Trump fired director of the FBI who investigated the Trump campaign
Books
Fiction
- And the birds rained down
- Inkheart
- To live
- RIP Eric Carle – The very hungry caterpillar
- Amazing Short Story by Philip Roth
- Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gasdanov
- Middlesex
- The Great Gatsby
- The Postman
- Chess Story
- Disappointed Peter (Pan)
- The Tale of the 1002nd Night
- Tonio Kroeger
- Confession of a Murderer
- The Story of Job
- Collected Fictions of Jorge Louis Borges
Non-Fiction
- I am sad that David Brooks stops writing in column for NY Times
- The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
- Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
- The Speckled People: Memoirs of a Half Irish Childhood
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Reports from Berlin, 1920-33
Humor
People
- Melania – The Film
- Elon Musk is for free trade between USA and Europe
- A Special Christmas Gift Idea
- “Can you please wait and impeach me after my 2nd term is over”
- Barak Obama is funnier than Jimmy Kimmel
- Vive la France
- Obama Speech at White House Correspondents Dinner
- Elton John is allegedly retiring and ready to start a family
- Hugh Heffner, 84, marries Chrystal Harris, 24
- John Stoppard on the meaning of his early play
- Barney Frank’s Career Advice
- Conan O’Brian “My own show again”
- Jon Steward on “Fox & Friends”
- Funny Dear Prudence Video: Managing Multiple Girlfriends
- Is Sarah Pahlin’s daughter Bristol getting married soon?
- Washington is not Hollywood: Ironies in the Salahis Episode
- Dear Prudie: For the Love of God, Should I leave him?
- How to Fight ‘Right’ Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin
- The election killed my personal life!
- Coach Michelle Obama
- Boybama (Boy Band for Obama)
- An Ideal Husband
- Ivana Trump: “Beautiful, smart, sexy, powerful, successful, young in spirit”
- Slate starts the Hillary Death Watch
- The Next Surreal News Story from New York
- We Need More Nerds!
- Ouch! That hurts
- “I Got a Crush…On Obama” By Obama Girl
- Seinfeld plays with Larry King
- Someone’s in the Closet With Sylvester
- George Bush’s Mea Culpa
- Expert to examine the relative comforts of the Hilton and a jail cell
- Justin Timberlake’s Reflection on Singlehood
- A Holiday Card from Britney Spears
- TomKat’s Wedding Picture
- Jon Steward on the Outing of Gay Evangelical Leader
- Rupert Murdoch’s Family Values
- Supreme Court Deals with Greed, Sex and Deception
- Donald Trump vs. Mark Singer
- Comedy Central on Cheney’s Hunting Mishap
- The Terminator of Speech
- In Heaven we are all Celebrities
- The Top 10 Bizarre Children Names of Celebrities
- College is for Life
- Finally a Politician who Speaks his Mind
- Attention Soccer Moms and Dads
- A Real Run-Away Bride
- “My Life so Far” by Jane Fonda
- Albert publishes pictures from his first wedding
- “A Joke that has gone too far…”
- Is this a Joke, Ann?
Situations
- This WSJ editorial line made me laugh out loud
- Elon Musk is for free trade between USA and Europe
- A Special Christmas Gift Idea
- Disunited Kingdom
- Some Humor regarding Greek Financial Crisis
- Obama’s Alternative Berlin Speech
- When the economy is bad, applying for jobs can be frustrating
- With kids like this, no wonder America is going down
- Elvis Costello at Sesame Street
- Home Run for Jon Steward: “My friend A. Weiner does not have …”
- Barney Frank: Clinton Is ‘Cool Kid’ at Davos
- What I will take with me onto a deserted island
- No You Can’t (Featuring John Boehner)
- The World’s Best Condom Ads courtsey of Slate
- Hell is Hurting
- Obama Kills Fly: Ninja REMIX!
- TAILS OF MANHATTAN
- Capturing the Moment: Cohen Tribute To Obama
- Fighting Sin with Catholic Google
- James Carville on the Transition Process
- “Dad, at least you didn’t get busted playing golf”
- Fast Forward to a Dramatic Democratic Convention in Denver
- “HILLARY! STOP THE ATTACKS!” LOVE, OBAMA GIRL
- Simply Red: Splitting up is never easy
- Stephen Colbert Announces Presidential Bid
- Is this your first time with an undercover cop?
- Lust in Translation
- Gesundheit, my Dear!
- Steve Martin’s Seventy-two Virgins
- Uma Thurman’s Words of Wisdom
- Post-Election Cartoons
- A Come-to-Daddy Moment
- Before Borat the Movie
- Japan’s Biggest Elvis Fan
- “I am Still Alive, for Christ’s Sake”
- Everyone can be a Novelist
- New Year’s Resolutions 2006
- Ying & Yang equals Toothbush & what ?
- Sex Offenders Get Medicaid-Paid Viagra
- What you will not see on Donald Trump’s “Apprentice”
- On the Trials and Tribulations of ‘Old Money’
- Standing Ovation during the First Day on the Job
- Emergency Instructions for New Airbus 380
- Write your own post-election editorial
- Will Rogers on his craft
- A Detour Before Dying
- Office Jokes
The Best
- Trumps alternative Oscar award show
- Donald Trump’s biggest fan reacts to the guilty verdict in NYC
- “Can you please wait and impeach me after my 2nd term is over”
- Funny Episode on the “Battle over Net Neutrality” by John Oliver
- Steven Colbert Analyzes the Boobquake Event
- The New Apple iPad
- The Soul Storage Company
- Baraka Obama Roasts his Chief of Staff (2005)
- “Socialism arrives in America”
- A very funny Cartoon from the New Yorker
- The World’s ‘Funniest’ Jokes
- A Few Questions
Movies
Comedy
- Jimmy Kimmel’s X-mas Message
- Home Alone after 35 years
- Forrest Gump after 30 years
- Ticket to Paradise
- Sister Act
- Charade
- Our Little Secret
- Crocodile Dundee
- The Escort
- 7 Days
- Why Men Don’t Listen and Women park badly (Warum Männer nicht zuhören und Frauen schlecht einparken
- Love Hard
- The perfect secret (Das perfekte Geheimnis)
- Muriel’s Wedding
- The Brothers McMullen
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- Definitely, Maybe
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- My Fat Greek Wedding 2
- Before we go
- Mistress America
- Entourage
- Pitch Perfect 2
- The Great Dictator
- Argo
- The Gods Must be Crazy (I and II)
- The Internship
- Jack Reacher, A Perfect Plan (Un Plan Parfait), This is 40
- A Thousand Words
- Friends with Benefit
- Crazy, Stupid, Love
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Cedar Rapids
- Bridesmaides
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- It’s Complicated
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- The Proposal
- Tropic Thunder
- Sex and the City
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
- License to Wed
- Blades of Glory
- Catch and Release
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- A Prairie Home Companion
- The Devil Wears Prada
- McLintock!
- Go for Zucker
- The Upside of Anger
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
- Shall We Dance?
- Tom Jones
- Election
- 50 First Dates
- High Fidelity
- “School of Rock” Rocks
Documentary
- Sinners
- Coldplay Documentary “Head Full of Dreams”
- Love has Won
- A Royal affair
- Three Identical Strangers
- Gurrumul
- The Shop around the Corner
- I am Heath Ledger
- Shine
- Lion
- Whiteley
- Sully
- Miles Ahead
- Vor der Morgenröte (Before the Red Sun rises again)
- Purple Rain
- Amy
- Marley
- Twinsters
- The Big Short
- Buena Vista Social Club
- American Sniper
- The Imitation Game
- Citizenfour
- Man on Wire
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Helmut Schmidt turns 95
- Waiting for Superman
- 35 and Single: An Argentine Woman Documents One Big Question
- Stories We Tell
- NO
- Looper
- Rocky Mountain Express: An IMAX Experience
- Roman Polanski—Wanted and Desired
- Debate Team
- This is it
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- Tarnation
- Frost-Nixon: The TV Interview
- When the Levees Broke
- Supersize Me!
- Grizzly Man
- March of the Penguins
- Capote
- The Fog of War
- The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
- Bowling for Columbine
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Capturing the Friedmans
Drama
- One Battle After Another
- Hamnet
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
- Shameless
- Home Alone after 35 years
- Forrest Gump after 30 years
- Anora
- Departures
- Romeo and Julia
- Seven Years in Tibet
- A Royal affair
- Maestro
- Crocodile Dundee
- Elvis
- Top Gun Maverick
- Coda
- No Time to Die
- White Tiger
- Parasite
- Get on Up
- Joker
- The Squid and the Whale
- The Farewell
- Once upon a time in Hollywood
- Toni Erdmannn
- The Shape of Water
- Foxtrot
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Once were Warriors
- Shine
- Allied
- Whiplash
- Lion
- Baby Driver
- Blood Diamond
- Big Little Lies
- Moonlight
- Manchester by the Sea
- Red Dog – True Blue
- LaLa Land
- Sully
- Departures
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Boy
- Girl on the train
- Demolition, Mr. Right, Everybody Wants Some
- Miles Ahead
- Purple Rain
- Carol
- The Reverent
- Eddie the Eagle
- The Wonders (Le meraviglie)
- Jobs
- The Big Short
- Joy
- Bridge of Spies
- The Dressmaker
- Entourage
- American Sniper
- Woman in Gold
- Leviathan
- The Imitation Game
- The Great Beauty
- Wilde
- The Theory of Everything
- Birdman
- Gone Girl
- Begin Again
- Ida
- Omar
- Rio Bravo
- Captain Phillips
- The Grand Hotel Budapest
- The Dallas Buyers Club
- Of Gods and Men
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Philomena
- Helmut Schmidt turns 95
- Argo
- Waiting for Superman
- American Hustle
- Stories We Tell
- Rush
- NO
- Gravity
- The Turning
- Blue Jasmine
- Before Midnight
- A Late Quartet, 42, and Croods
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- Jack Reacher, A Perfect Plan (Un Plan Parfait), This is 40
- Life is not for Wimps (Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge)
- Moonrise Kingdom
- The Family Stone
- Where Eagles Dare
- The Ghostwriter
- Head-On (Gegen die Wand)
- Red Dog
- This Means War
- The Artist
- Roman Holiday
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Maltese Falcon
- Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
- Key Largo
- L.A. Confidential
- The Descendants
- Whale Story
- Our Idiot Brother
- Easy Rider
- Crazy Beautiful
- Contagion—Nothing spreads like fear
- The Sound of Music
- Two Lovers
- Broken Embraces
- Almanya—Welcome to Germany
- Boys Don’t Cry
- Lord of the Flies
- The King’s Speech
- A Passage to India
- My Fair Lady
- Madame Bovary
- Apocalypse Now (Redux)
- The Darjeling Limited
- The Social Network
- Rushmore
- Bottle Rocket
- A Single Man
- My Darling Clementine
- Vicent wants the Sea (Vicent will Meer)
- Family Wedding, Youth in Revolt, Arthur, and Brooklyn’s Finest
- United 93
- Crazy Heart
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Hurt Locker
- Up in the Air
- Whip It
- An Education
- The Informant
- Atonement
- Bright Star
- Pirate Radio
- 500 Days of Summer
- Recount
- Cloud 9 (Wolke 9)
- Gran Torino
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Milk
- The Baader Meinhoff Complex
- Angels and Demons
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Doubt
- The Edge of Heaven
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- 300
- Mama Mia!
- We Own the Night
- No Country For Good Men & There Will Be Blood
- I am not there
- La Vie en Rose
- August Rush
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- Juno
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Road to Perdition
- Ocean’s 13
- Fracture
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Premonition
- Wild Hogs
- Terms of Endearment
- In the Land of Women
- Norbit
- The Namesake
- Shooter
- Breach
- Flags of our Fathers
- Bridge to Terabithia
- The Painted Veil
- The Holidays
- Heaven
- Miss Potter
- Freedom Writers
- The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
- Elizabeth
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Notes on a Scandal
- The Last King of Scotland
- Little Children
- Babel
- The Queen
- Casino Royale
- The Passion of the Christ
- The Departed
- Just My Luck
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Chinatown
- Fitzcarraldo
- Walk the Line
- In her Shoes
- Syriana
- Brokeback Mountain
- A Good Woman
- Sophie’s Choice
- The Sea Inside
- Farewell to “The Sopranos”
- Being Julia
- The Interpreter
- Cinderella Man
- Crash
- Angels in America
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Ray
- Love’s a Bitch
- Hotel Rwanda
- Melinda and Melinda
- Closer
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Finding Neverland
- The Aviator
- Man on Fire
- I, Robot
- House of Flying Daggers
- The Butterfly Effect
- Cast Away
- Bad Education
- Grapes of Wrath
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Kinsey
- The Bourne Surpremacy
- Sideways
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Last Tango in Paris
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- On the Waterfront
- In America
- 21 Grams
- Cold Mountain
- Lost in Translation
- “Punch, Drunk, Love” and “The Hours”
- Whale Rider
- Together
- Dancer Upstairs
Phantasy
- Sinners
- Companion
- Dune
- RIP Eric Carle – The very hungry caterpillar
- The Shape of Water
- Beauty and the Beast
- LaLa Land
- Finding Dori
- Ted 2 (aka Oh Teddy)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
- Inside Out
- The Martian
- Interstellar
- Her
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Toy Story 2
- A Late Quartet, 42, and Croods
- Toy Story
- A Good Day to Die Hard
- The Dark Knight Rises
- In Time
- Inception
- Ted
- Hugo
- Kick-Ass
- Monster Inc
- The Hunger Games
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Midnight in Paris
- Never Let Me Go
- New Moon
- UP
- Avatar
- Briefly Noted: 17 Again, Bride Wars & Hildegard
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Twilight
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Wall E
- The Dark Knight
- Penelope
- Live Free or Die Hard
- Bee Movie
- The Invisible
- Ratatouille
- Next
- Spiderman 3
- The Last Mimzy
- Happy Feet
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend
- Cars
- King Kong
- Match Point
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Island
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sixth
- The Incredibles
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- The Notebook
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Prince & Me
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Big Fish
- Finding Nemo
Music
Pop
- My favorite music at the Presidential Inauguration 2021
- Powerful Video Art
- Cute: U2 first ever TV appearance
- RIP Prince. Super Bowl 2007
- David Bowie’s Final Performance
- Behind the Scenes how Pop Hits are Made Today
- Joris – Herz über Kopf
- Regina Spektor – Eet & Samson
- Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah”
- Gotye’s amazing Video Remix of his imitators
- Gotye rules the world!
- Beyonce sings Etta James Classic Song “At Last”
- Five musicians playing one instrument
- Creative Background for a Very Average Song
- Listening to the Magnificient Voice of Adele
- Now on iTunes: Beatles Through the Years
- 92 Million YouTube Views and counting: Justin Bieber “Baby, Baby…”
- U2 -“No line on the horizon”
- will.i.am “It is a New Day”
- Music DVDs: Bruce, Evanescence, Rolling Stones, U2, & Dave Matthews Band
- Silbermond “Das Beste”
- The Police Reunites for the First Tour in 24 Years