Lowell Sun Online - Unedited version of ‘On the Road’ to be published
Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel on the Beat Generation, On The Road, will be published in its unedited “original scroll version,” John Sampas said today. The Lowell-based executor of Kerouac’s literary estate said he signed a contract Sunday with the New York-based publisher Viking/Penguin to publish the book. He hopes to have it out by the end of 2007. Tuesday’s Lowell Sun will have the full edited story.
I’m a big fan of Marc Hurst’s work with Good Experience—he writes an insightful newsletter and does important work promoting a focus on user experience. I was excited to check out his new GooToDo tool, but site asks for my unencrypted credit card details before I can try it out. This isn’t a good experience!
Matt’s Idea Blog: How to read a lot of books in a short time
The most useful technique comes from Jason Womack, and synthesizes nicely the most common ideas. In a nutshell, he says he reads the book four times.
- Table of contents, glossary, index.
- Anything in bold, titles, and subtitles.
- First line of every paragraph.
- Entire book
Here’s the twist: Steps 1-3 should only take about 10 minutes.
Bruce Lee may seem to be just another uni-dimensional macho hero, but his rise marked an epochal shift for Asian Americans, both as actors and as men. After decades of being demonized as sly yet effeminate “yellow peril” in the post-World War II era, Lee represented a positive, vigorous version of masculinity. And it’s this consolation that actors like Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa cling to when they play similar roles in movies like Mortal Kombat, even when they’re negative. “If the choice is between playing wimpy business men and the bad guy,” Tagawa tells Adachi, “I’d rather play the bad guy. … I want kids to know that Asian men have balls.”
Perpetuating the Yellow Peril -- In These Times
NPR : Richard Linklater, Directing ‘Darkly’ (Interviewed on Fresh Air, 10 July 2006)
Transgressive; sublime. (NSFW)