#Michael Lewis

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Lithops

By Michael Lewis

[doppleganger-rental]

Did you know that there was a soundtrack release for the 70’s tv show In Search Of ? It has multiple tracks that were used on the show as well as some other stuff. I wish there was a definitive release of the all of the actual music. The show was always a little eerie and sometimes scary. The music by Micheal Lewis and Laurin Rinder was a key ingredient. Many, many years ago I emailed Lewis or Rinder (I can’t remember which)about the likelihood of the music being released. He was nice but it was clear he wasn’t interested.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay)

01/09/2024

[escapeintothepages]

“The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.”

Moneyball, Michael Lewis

[deadpresidents]

Any good books on losing presidential candidates?

This is an older book but They Also Ran by Irving Stone is a great read about Presidential candidates who came up short.

Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation by Scott Farris [BOOK | KINDLE] is a newer take (2011) on the subject of losing Presidential candidates.

And Michael Lewis -- author of Moneyball and The Big Short, among others -- wrote a frequently overlooked and criminally underrated book called Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House [BOOK | KINDLE] that is awesome and genuinely funny. Losers follows the candidates in the campaign for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination: Senator John McCain of Arizona, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, Pat Buchanan, and the eventual nominee, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. It's forgotten classic of campaign literature.

[shakespearenews]

To Sam’s way of thinking, the case against Shakespeare could be made with basic statistics: I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare . . . but really I shouldn’t need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate—probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren’t very favorable.

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I swear every now and then something hits me in a part of myself I was hitherto unaware existed and makes me weirdly emotional. I just finished watching Theatre of Blood from 1973, a dark comedy quasi-horror starring Vincent Price as a back from the dead (sorta) spurned, pompous stage actor on a quest to kill his critics. Said movie includes:

- Vincent Price in an afro masquerading as a gay hairdresser

- a sword fight on trampolines

- Diana Rigg in such convincing drag that I swear to absolute god that they somehow managed to get Jeff Lynne in this movie

This is all to say that Theatre of Blood is a goofy movie, and yet here's the opening sequence

Like...? There's something oddly beautiful about the score and the montage of silent film adaptions of Shakespear's plays, like a loving testament to the history and beauty of theatre, which, for as morbid, ghoulish and stupid as the movie might be, it is.

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Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis כפות רגליים של מייקל לואיס

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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air - 12/28/1975 - Winterland - San Francisco -

[aether--or]

Lewis has surveyed a landscape taken by convention as settled and found it destabilized, at least here and there, by uneven and unreliable information.

[shakespearenews]

Sam Bankman-Fried is wrong about Shakespeare

This is an ostensibly logical argument based on quantitative information. It doesn’t rely on subjective judgements: it just claims that it’s unlikely that Shakespeare is the GOAT because the population of literate individuals in his time was tiny compared to later centuries. On numbers alone, we’re more likely to find the greatest ever writer among the educated multitudes of the 20th and 21st centuries, not the thinly spread turnip-munchers of the 16th.