Author Archives: Glynn Marshes

Body Hack: Resistant Starch

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: Some interesting discussion breaking out within the paleo crowd: is it possible that paleo dieters have overlooked the benefits of a class of carbohydrates called resistant starches? Richard Nikoley of the blog Free the Animal is leading … Continue reading →

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“In its death throes, the mega state is gonna make a lot of mess.”

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes shares . . . an interview with Louis Rossetto, co-founder of Wired magazine, by Reason‘s Nick Gillespie. Starts with predictions Rossetto made in the 1990s about the impact of Internet technology and then moves to what’s happened since, … Continue reading →

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Not With a Bang…

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: . . . but with a crumble. From time to time, scifi writer Sarah Hoyt blogs about The Collapse. I find her perspective interesting. Hoyt was born and grew up in Portugal; she’s experienced first-hand what it’s … Continue reading →

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“Film might be at its best . . .”

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: “. . . when it’s telling no story at all.” From the video essay The Art of Editing in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a professorial analysis of the Trio scene. (Very professorial. Be prepared … Continue reading →

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“Car crashes…are symptoms of a disease…”

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: Says the CNN opinion columnist. Before you argue that car crashes/motorcycle accidents are not, in fact, symptoms of a disease but some other category of phenomenon, please bear in mind: the new definition of the word “disease” … Continue reading →

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(money) – (control) = (failure)?

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: On the NPR website, a story on the charity GiveDirectly that’s trying to help poor people in the developing world in an unusual way: by sending them money with no strings attached. Skeptics thought “the poor” would … Continue reading →

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yeah baby

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: I read Pamela Des Barres’ memoir, “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie” shortly after it was published in the mid-80s. Here’s a new interview with her that’s a fun read and which includes her reflections … Continue reading →

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The Inevitable Outcome . . .

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: . . . Hollywood will keep producing the same movie. Over and over and over and over . . . A chain-smoking former statistics professor named Vinny Bruzzese — “the reigning mad scientist of Hollywood,” in the … Continue reading →

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Does This Avatar Make Me Look Fat?

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: Riffing on comments I exchanged with Paleo Retiree after my last post, one of the cool things about fiction — and one of the reasons I don’t think the novel, as an art/entertainment form, is quite dead, … Continue reading →

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Literary v Mainstream

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: How much of the difference between the two comes down to whether any of the characters is “likeable”? (Struck me after an offline friend remarked that she disliked “The Great Gatsby” because she didn’t like any of … Continue reading →

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