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Jeff Wrangler:
I was kind of disappointed in "Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them" (Nov. 6).
I really only liked two things, which might be considered asides:
"Unicorns ... attract virgins--which, power-wise, puts them at the same level as boy bands."
Also:
"Controlling the elements, for instance, seems considerably harder than controlling an animal (unless, perhaps, it is a cat)."
serious crayons:
:laugh: :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm currently reading Larissa MacFarquhar's November 13 article about Orange City, Iowa.
I'm surprised by one thing. I'm about halfway through the article, and, while she makes much of the fact that the town's first settlers were immigrants from the Netherlands, she hasn't gone into the reason why Orange City is called Orange City. I'd bet it's because the settlers were from the Netherlands and the House of Orange is the ruling dynasty of the Netherlands. It was back then and it still is today.
(MacFarquhar: Now, there's a Scottish or Scots-Irish name for you!)
serious crayons:
Larissa McFarquhar wrote what was, for some reason, one of my favorite New Yorker profiles ever, of the producer Brian Grazer:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/15/the-producer
You can't read the whole thing without a subscription and even then I'm not saying it's a must-read. But for reasons I can't fully explain, it has really stuck with me ever since.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 16, 2017, 11:56:00 pm ---Larissa McFarquhar wrote what was, for some reason, one of my favorite New Yorker profiles ever, of the producer Brian Grazer:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/15/the-producer
You can't read the whole thing without a subscription and even then I'm not saying it's a must-read. But for reasons I can't fully explain, it has really stuck with me ever since.
--- End quote ---
I have a vague memory of that article. That was in the hard copy, wasn't it?
But, anyway, I like her stuff, too.
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