skimming

I would love to visit and revisit a month by month graph of sales for all the tiers. From the NYT: As sales at high-end stores like Neiman Marcus plunged by nea...

in sum

Eighteen years ago I got my first introduction to the world of high finance from Michael Lewis’ awesome memoir Liar’s Poker. Lewis has just written ...

movies

In the Valley of Elah is an incredible movie. Long, heart wrenching, polemical, at times sentimental but very well acted and structured. We need a hundred more ...

bumper sticker

It’s almost good enough for a bumper sticker: “If we have to protect against bank runs by providing deposit insurance, we also have to regulate capi...

meals

I just wrote the below in an email to a friend and realized it’s the umpteenth time I write some (though usually abridged) version of this list. So, for p...

movies

In the summer of 2002, Mexico became a democracy, again. Via a peaceful transfer of power, the PRI lost control over the executive branch for the first time in ...

strong women

The 1949 Mexican noir film Aventurera is tightly crafted, progressive, sensational, at times experimental and completely modern. Related: ¿A Quién Le Importa? b...

movies

Superbad is the most vulgar movie I’ve seen in a while. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It proudly belongs to a genre that intends to cro...

music

Thanks to a commercial on TV, Ana and I have been playing this song all week long. It’s very well done.

business

Seeing is believing. I am watching a movie on hulu with limited commercial interruptions. It really works. Now, if only they added an EQ to boost the audio̷...

television

On the heels of the brilliant WALL•E, another environmentalist blockbuster: the Olympics. I suppose there’s also a one-percent possibility that the intern...

movies

It had been at least a dozen years since I last saw Paris is Burning and it was even better than I remembered it. A clear portrait of a powerful culture, the mo...

interface

This morning as I was driving our stick shift car to work I heard a noise from the clutch. I was on the freeway so I raised the windows and listened more carefu...