From Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, a rumination on snowless winters in Tokyo.

Anybody who is familiar with NFL Films knows the only thing greater than the gripping narrativization is the gratuitous slow-mo footage

In that spirit, here’s Detroit’s Matthew Stafford digging his team into a hole against Cleveland, injuring his shoulder, eluding team trainers to get back on the field and, finally, throwing the game-clinching touchdown at the last second. It’s better than the movies.

Cargo rockets, auto-driving cars, color-coded freeway lanes, never walking anywhere: Magic Highway USA (or, the future of American infrastructure as imagined by Disney in 1958).

Originally published in Seed Magazine in 2006: Noam Chomsky and Robert Trivers sit down for a lengthy discussion about deceit, self-deception and denial.

Here’s the transcript. Have at it, nerds!

Matt Taibbi, ever a favorite writer of mine, wrote last week on what has become a favorite subject of mine: the media’s endless takedown of Sarah Palin.

It’s worth reading—even (and, it pains me to write, perhaps especially) if you’re of the opinion that Sarah Palin would make a competent political figure.

Speaking of stop-motion animation: here’s a seriously cool video created in the spirit of Maurice Gee’s Going West.

Can’t help but marvel at this bizarre new trend of movie trailers for books. See also: Death Troopers and Inherent Vice.

Via Book Bench

You may have heard about how members of Wes Anderson’s team allegedly took exception to his ‘sociopathic’ directorial style during the extremely tedious production of The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Making Of has a short featurette on how the workflow actually worked.

It’s all pretty brilliant, but I still think It’s amazing that they got anything done this way.

The Auteurs—a site that I can only describe as a sort of streamable, pay-per-view Criterion Collection—recently added three films by Spanish surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel: L’Âge d’or, Death in the Garden and Un Chien Andalou.

They’re all free to watch. For now.

You should check them out (but only if you like your movies old, French and unsettling).

From Foreign Policy: how to beat your uncle in a foreign-policy debate at Thanksgiving dinner.

NEPAL – A provincial Hindu festival during which some 250,000 animals are ritualistically slaughtered for Gadhimai, a goddess of power, began today in earnest.