FSD may update more frequently today, as the editors are stuck home sick and only have one DVD remaining in a stack of Netflix and library loans. The remaining title is 2005′s “Trust the Man,” which bears the tagline: “Men play the game. Women know the score.” It was selected by an editor’s wife and [...]
From the Toronto Globe and Mail: French adventurer Michel Fournier’s quest to set a world skydiving record may have come to an end after his $200,000 helium balloon escaped and floated into space without him attached on Tuesday. Fournier, who has attempted the record three times, experienced balloon failure in 2002 and 2003. To date, [...]
While Michel Fournier waited to attempt his 25-mile plunge to a Saskatchewan prairie, another daredevil jumped 24 delivery trucks near Cincinnati. From the AP: Knievel, 46, had said he would need to be going 95 miles per hour at take off for the 200-foot jump, which began from a three-story tall ramp and was completed [...]
Michel Fournier’s jump has been delayed due to weather.
French skydiver Michel Fournier plans to set no fewer than four world records today, weather permitting. He’s going to don a pressurized suit, climb into a balloon and float 25 miles into the sky — into space, really — and then jump out. He’ll break the sound barrier 40 seconds into his fall. He’ll need [...]
Awesome. This is not David Mamet’s best film. It’s not even in the top 10. But I urge you to give “Redbelt” a chance. I know the premise seems ridiculous. And it’s going to help if you’re no stranger to watching martial arts on the big screen. Or, perhaps, if you have a bit of [...]
Tonight, Linda and I saw Mates of State at the Mercury Lounge and then ate a terrible Mexican dinner. We took the F home to Brooklyn and then transferred to the A train at Jay Street. The train slowed to a crawl between Jay and Hoyt-Schermerhorn, and I noticed about two dozen SWAT team members [...]
Sarah Boden on the “New Eccentric” movement in music. From the UK Observer: In the space of 12 months, though, the story has started to change. The smart kids are looking further afield. These days, it’s practically mandatory for any self-respecting new band to stitch together dizzyingly idiosyncratic sounds. Listen to synthetic futurists Late of [...]
By my last count, my wife and I have lived in five apartments in seven years. That means we’ve seen a lot of apartments for rent. Some of them beautiful, some of them awful. The apartment we saw in Sunset Park yesterday made those awful ones look like Mr. Drummond’s pad on “Diff’rent Strokes.” Never [...]
Obituaries are my favorite part of the newspaper. The New York Times today published an obit for Richard Knerr, co-founder of the company Wham-O. Without him, we might not have the Hula Hoop, the SuperBall, or the Frisbee (which had previously been called the “Pluto Platter” before Knerr bought the rights to it). Not all [...]