The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
2/2/2009
An irony of illusion and reality: nearly everyone can reel off the movies and actors that collected an Academy Award, but who can recall the winners of the year's Nobel and Pulitzer prizes?
Yeah! Somebody should do something! Uh... I think this idea has been covered about a billion times. More importantly, did you know that Mike Tomlin was a three-year starter at wide receiver at William and Mary (1990-94)?
I usually wait until they make a movie about the Nobel or Pulitzer winner, then, if the actor playing the role the Pulitzer or Nobel winner is worthy of aclaim, and only then, do I concider them noteworthy, and commit them to memory, like when Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford won the Pulitzer.
I did see that movie with the guy from Gladiator who played some math wiz or something who went to Princeton. Didn't he win something? I mean the Princeton guy, not the actor.
there are like a dozen winners of both the nobel and pulitzer prizes in a given year and but 2 or 3 noteworthy oscars. how the fuck am i supposed to remember dozens of things at once? is this some kind of backhanded gladwell homage?
no-- it's just weird that i know a million actors and football players but couldn't tell you who invented the ipod-- maybe it's not a good enough narrative. i don't know the oscar winners OR the nobel winners-- i just write sentences.
Yeah! Somebody should do something! Uh... I think this idea has been covered about a billion times. More importantly, did you know that Mike Tomlin was a three-year starter at wide receiver at William and Mary (1990-94)?
ReplyDeleteI usually wait until they make a movie about the Nobel or Pulitzer winner, then, if the actor playing the role the Pulitzer or Nobel winner is worthy of aclaim, and only then, do I concider them noteworthy, and commit them to memory, like when Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford won the Pulitzer.
ReplyDeleteyes-- tomlin just overlapped with my time at w&m-- he's a bit younger than me.
ReplyDeletei think i'm plagiarizing eric's sentence for my sentence tomorrow.
I did see that movie with the guy from Gladiator who played some math wiz or something who went to Princeton. Didn't he win something? I mean the Princeton guy, not the actor.
ReplyDeletethere are like a dozen winners of both the nobel and pulitzer prizes in a given year and but 2 or 3 noteworthy oscars. how the fuck am i supposed to remember dozens of things at once? is this some kind of backhanded gladwell homage?
ReplyDeleteno-- it's just weird that i know a million actors and football players but couldn't tell you who invented the ipod-- maybe it's not a good enough narrative. i don't know the oscar winners OR the nobel winners-- i just write sentences.
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