Demons, movies, and Uncle Rich
Last month, The New Yorker ran a profile of Guillermo del Toro, director of “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the “Hellboy” films. I read that piece, and recently got a distressed email from my friend Rich Roesberg back in New Jersey that he’d meant to pick up that issue of The New Yorker but now had missed it. I promised to send it to him — but then figured it was probably available online for free. And, indeed, here it is.
I was going to recommend to Rich that he get a subscription to The New Yorker, because it’s a great magazine and it doesn’t cost that much. But hey, free costs even less. Which, again, illuminates the reason that newspapers and periodicals are dying — their economic model — and why the United States Postal Service that formerly delivered so much mail of this sort, plus first class, is so deeply in the red. (And, some speculate, will go bankrupt.)
March 21st, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Indeed, The New Yorker is that amazing contribution to reading that actually seems to know it’s audience has more than half a brain.
To confirm this, read this article from January 24th of this year discussing THE FACILITY where I am currently applying for employment as a REGISTERED NURSE, soon to be a Baccalaureate Nurse.
This model of care, discussed in the New Yorker may be the hope of health care reform.
I am back in the US, after an amazing journey to South Africa. With enough data and thoughts to keep writing well past midnight…and straight on ’til morning.
March 21st, 2011 at 5:11 pm
here’s the article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_gawande
March 24th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Yes, but the idea is to own the magazine so you can hold it and fetish it.
The USPO is in the red mainly because we are forced to pre-fund retirees health benefits, unlike other Federal entities. Some people have calculated that without that burden we would be in the red. The present administration is trying to correct the situation. The media seem to ignore the story. And there has been more than enough mail to keep us working and doing OT.