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"(1) Buy a STREETWISE NEW YORK map and a STREETWISE BROOKLYN map if they have them at your local bookstore. Look at the lines that are near your work and get an idea of where you want to live. Look at straphangers to learn more about the efficacy of..." [
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"I think these are all really helpful descriptions, but just wanted to add the obvious qualifier. This is a little obvious, but the problem with these sort of binaries (and there's a famous Umberto Ecco essay listing them) is that they break down when..." [
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"I think someone, maybe Terry Gilliam, said that Watchmen would work great as a TV miniseries--that always sounded right to me: TV would give the drabness and length that Watchmen needs. Imagine Dekalog crossed with The Singing Detective.
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"This thread is so MEFIy. Did the people here actually read this article? I don't have a lot of time right now, but:
(1) Most of it isn't even about TV or moral superiority, but about the way novels deal with tme and space. This isn't one of her..." [
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"The argument here isn't between labeling something as racist or pragmatic, or even between rage and civility. The debate is really about how useful a piece of information we should see race. AmbroseChapel thinks it is irrelevant because it is not..." [
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"This is a pretty easy question and there have probably been Metafilter threads on this before. You're looking for a mainstream alternative style, typically practiced by British expat writers of Moore and Ellis's generation.
For Moore, Watchmen, V..." [
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"I think the issue isn't as simple as the superiority of the early adopter, but about context. Usually if something is yours alone, you have a private relationship with it and the context is very unique to, say, a given subculture. But when things..." [
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