Doug LeMoine — Page 3

Ranging to justice

May 16, 2010

Thinking about the various clustercusses in the world, and reading William James, I came across this optimistic notion: Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the [...]

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Bracketological madness, volume 2 — Bracket edition

March 23, 2010

You might have noticed that I wrote a basketball-related post last week, but I’m actually trying to separate my obsessing about sports from ... well, real stuff. So I posted this year’s bracket at Turrible, which is intended to be my online man cave. Of sorts. Anyway, don’t assume that I posted it elsewhere because, [...]

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A peek into Obama’s speech-writing process

March 23, 2010

Photo: Pete Souza I really geek out out on glimpses of the marked-up copy of other writers, so I was pretty fascinated to see a page of a Presidential speech-in-progress. If you click through to the zoomed-in page, you’ll see that all of Obama’s notes are all copy-edits; there are no developmental “what I’m trying to [...]

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Bracketological breakdown, 2010 edition, volume 1!

March 16, 2010

Geek alert! I’m talking basketball. It’s March, and the madness of the season has overtaken me. Thus, I won’t be offended if you are about to click back to Twitter, or your RSS reader. I’ll start by not wasting anyone’s time complaining about this year’s tournament pairings. That path is well-traveled.1 And well it should [...]

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El Super

March 1, 2010

New York’s blizzard of 1977 makes a riveting cameo appearance in “El Super,” an indie (before the term was formalized) film about the hard adjustments that immigrants make in coming to New York. The movie is great for many reasons, but the blizzard steals a few scenes as the main character — a Cuban super — walks around town. [...]

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Fur flyin over The Atlantic’s redesign

March 1, 2010

There’s a lot of animated chatter among some of my favorite journalists over the redesign of their publication’s site. Last week, the Atlantic Monthly rolled out what appears to the casual reader as a slight update of the IA, along with some major changes to the way that blogs are integrated. Reader reaction was anything [...]

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Uhhhhh-hot pants! That’s where it’s at.

February 25, 2010

Wordle seems sort of perfect for representing James Brown lyrics. I used Internet lyrics, which don’t appear to be a true transcription of the version on In the Jungle Groove, which is 8+ minutes of “huh!” and “hey!” and “Good God!” and “smokin!” Still, good enough. While you’re considering James Brown as a lyricist, you [...]

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Recipe for the rain / Escabeche

February 23, 2010

(Also known as those pickled vegetables from the taco truck.) ... Mara made some this weekend, and I’ve basically been living on it for the last three days. The recipe originated in The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, but we found a previously adapted version at Simply Recipes. ¡Horale! ¡Vamos a do this! Ingredients 1 lb jalapeño [...]

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In a cloud

February 22, 2010

Oh wow, our pal Greg Gardner put together a really nice collection of new music from local bands. It’s called In A Cloud, which describes the recent winter weather and the album itself is a time capsule of San Francisco sounds in 2009-10. My favorite song is a sweet little thing called “Baby Held” by [...]

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