What we read while intentionally walking Josh Hamilton….
- Mad Men‘s fourth season, which John S reviewed this week, concluded last Sunday, and Vulture featured a series of interviews with the show’s cast and creative team. They also wondered when Betty Draper became such a monster, and if Don disappointed his fans. Also, here’s Alan Sepinwall’s breakdown of the finale.
- There are A LOT of people with college degrees and they do things that, you know, lesser-educated people do.
- If there’s anything more intriguing than a literary mystery, we don’t know what it is. This week: Jane Austen wasn’t as good as everyone thought! (Psh…we’ve known that for years.)
- “This site records my foolhardy attempt to illustrate Finnegan’s Wake.” We at NPI cannot express our enthusiasm for foolhardy attempts enough.
- FiveBooks recommends, well, five books for just about any subject, including, and here’s the callback, the five Jane Austen books to read.
- Our favorite Canadian magazine, The Walrus, views the travels of a bust of Lenin as a metaphor for the Soviet Union as a whole.
- With the Giants now officially in the World Series, here’s an interview with Wiley Wiggins (a.k.a Mitch Kramer in Dazed and Confused) about looking so much like Tim Lincecum.
- South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had to issue an apology when their spoof of Inception bore too close a resemblance to Dan Gurewitch’s on College Humor. Gurewitz accepted the apology. Speaking of films John S reviewed this year: Robert Wright wondered if Mark Zuckerberg is actually a visionary.
- Finally, a shallow look into whether her run-in with Kanye West helped Taylor Swift’s career.
- How many Cam Newton highlights can Tim link to before it gets tiresome? Can he have one more? Newton’s 49-yard run against LSU on Saturday left veteran broadcasters Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson (NPI faves, btw) incredulous. The Tigers, meanwhile, are now No. 1 in the BCS standings.
