• Here's a travelogue to Minneapolis in the 1930s. The downtown skyline is completely different but Lake of the Isles looks exactly the same.
• Douglas McCollam writes in the Columbia Journalism Review about how Truman Capote got access to Marlon Brando in Japan in 1957 and turned it into the greatest celebrity profile ever written.
• Two modern media giants who don't get paid enough, David Carr and Andrew Sullivan, sit down and talk about Sullivan's decision to go it alone. 
• And, hey, I told Sully two years ago he wasn't right for the Beast.
• The greatest tweets ever? Chris Hadfield, currently living in the International Space Station, which is to say outer space, sends tweets back to Earth. William Shatner replied to one and Hadfield replied back, “Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface.” And that was just the beginning. Maybe there's a reason for Twitter after all.
• Sweden made a movie about Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki? Why did I not know about this? Apparently, and unfortunately, they made two versions: Norweigian and English. If you see the movie, make sure you see the former.
• R.I.P., Richard Ben Cramer. “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?” opened my eyes. I'll have to read “ I'll have to read ”What It Takes“ now.
• Joe Posnanski crunches the numbers on, of all things, the Topps baseball card numbering system and comes up with the most revered player in Topps baseball card history.
• A history of Seattle moviegoing at the Museum of History and Industry? I am so there. Seattle Times piece written by my friend Michael Upchurch. 
• Joel Lovell's New York Times piece on George Saunders, whom he calls the greatest writer of our time. I'm embarrassed I've never heard of him. Either him. 
• Tom the Dancing Bug imagines a world in which the NRA is to the first amendment as this one is the second. It's still not pretty. 
• Joe Posnanski crunches the numbers on, of all things, how well great pitchers have fared against pitchers. Who has benefitted the most from facing the weakest batters? Who the least? It's one of those stats where you think, ”Yeah, how come no one has done this before?"

Minneapolis in the 1930s was called the city of the future. It was for me anyway.

Posted at 03:55 AM on Wed. Jan 09, 2013 in category Lancelot Links  
Tags: Minneapolis, Truman Capote, Marlon Brando, David Carr, Andrew Sullivan, Star Trek, Thor Heyerdahl, Baseball Cards, Joe Posnanski, George Saunders, Tom the Dancing Bug

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