I’m miffed at Amazon for ending Kindle magazines and newspapers. Even before that announcement I was annoyed to see the only place taking pre-orders for the Max Fleischer’s Superman (1941-1943) Blu-ray set isn’t Amazon, it’s Walmart.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Max-Fleischer-s-Superman-1941-1943-Blu-Ray/1574573807
Update: Amazon now has a listing, but Walmart’s price is $4 less.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BXQM8FTK/
Update: Amazon’s price now matches Walmart’s.
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The New Yorker stopped offering a Kindle edition a long time ago, but I was mostly reading the print copies anyway. I’ve been reading The New York Times on Kindle ($20/month) for only the past six months, and being blissfully free of ads and comments, it’s the only way I read the NYT. Now I’ll be forced to subscribe online in the way that I wanted to avoid.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has been in the news recently, being one of the genre magazines receiving AI-generated story submissions. I’m mostly a Sci-Fi guy, and not so much into Fantasy. I’m not sure what I’ll do about my F&SF subscription.
August 4, 1932, with the Great Depression at its worst, Frank Capra’s American Madness is released.
‘American Madness’ was a shocker to the public. It created controversy among critics and bitter contention in financial circles. Some called it “New Dealish”… “impractical star-gazing:… “fuzzy thinking.” Other said the thinking was no fuzzier than the “thinking” of financiers which created the boom and the crash.
– Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title, 1971
That quote is an example of why Capra’s autobiography is best read with an occasional grain of salt. The New Deal didn’t exist yet, and FDR hadn’t even been elected. Regardless, American Madness has Walter Huston as a bank president stating the case for new thinking to deal with the Depression. Herbert “Business as Usual” Hoover did not represent new thinking.
American Madness is a must-see movie, if only for its value as a time capsule, dramatizing the very real fears of a desperate, panicking public. But it has much more going for it. With the exception of the clichéd gangsters, the interactions between the characters are delightful, and Constance Cummings is an absolute dream.
I’m getting a full refund of all my income taxes for 2022, to be deposited in my account at Bank of America, where they like me! They really like me!
Jon Stewart ties Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm in knots, as he tries to explain and defend his illogic regarding guns. I’m going to assume that Dahm is aspiring to national political office.
Scott Adams could have quit, but instead he chose to be fired. At least there’s more publicity in that.
Adams said that white people should “get the hell away from black people.” Isn’t that the way it’s been in almost every syndicated humorous comic strip since Peanuts? Lynn Johnston and Cathy Guisewite were eagerly signed for syndication, but their points of reference were no less white and suburban than Gary Larson or Bill Watterson.
Perhaps Adams doesn’t want to be a cartoonist anymore. My take from watching some of Real Coffee With Scott Adams on YouTube is that he sees himself as another Rush Limbaugh. Adams retains Rush’s attention-getting histrionics in his polemics, while avoiding the hysterics of ex-DJ Limbaugh.
