Stumbling onto good stuff on the Web
Just like in real life, one thing usually leads to another when you're searching for something on the Web. You find these great sites and you don't even know how you got there, or what you were originally setting out to find, especially if you tend to be like me: chimp-like and easily distracted by shiny objects.
But one way or another, there you are, eventually, in a field full of lush banana trees.
I wanted to share some of my recent finds for you:
Go to American Rhetoric at http://americanrhetoric.com/ if you appreciate the power of persuasive speech and how it comes to be that way. By turns scholarly and populist, you can find here the texts and sounds of some of the greatest speeches in our history, from Lincoln's Second Inaugural to King's "I Have A Dream.'' There's even a section on movie rhetoric where you can hear Al Pacino deliver a powerful eulogy for a dead child as a fictional mayor in "City Hall'' or Henry V rally the troops in Shakespeare's famous "St. Crispin's Day speech'' delivered by Kenneth Branaugh and on and on.
Rhetoric has a bad reputation, but its purest sense, using language to persuade or convince, is one of the few things that makes us just a little lower than the angels.
If you're looking for DVD versions of obscure movies at a reasonable price, go to http://thesmallscreen.org/ I've recently found a couple of gems there: "Wise Blood,'' John Huston's version of Flannery O'Conner's dark comic novel about Hazel Moats, who starts "The First Church of Jesus Christ Without Jesus Christ,'' and a great old Paul Newman movie, "Sometimes A Great Notion,'' which has the most harrowing few minutes I think I've ever seen on film.
While you're wandering around the ether you might want to check out Paul D'Ambrosio's Web site at http://pauldambrosio.com/. Paul is the head of our investigative unit here at the Press, in charge of those folks who do real serious journalism, sniffing out corruption (as opposed to whatever it is I do around here). He's won dozens of big-time journalism awards and has just written his debut novel "Cold Rolled Dead.'' Buy a few copies today! Just so you know, Paul did not pay me to write that.
But one way or another, there you are, eventually, in a field full of lush banana trees.
I wanted to share some of my recent finds for you:
Go to American Rhetoric at http://americanrhetoric.com/ if you appreciate the power of persuasive speech and how it comes to be that way. By turns scholarly and populist, you can find here the texts and sounds of some of the greatest speeches in our history, from Lincoln's Second Inaugural to King's "I Have A Dream.'' There's even a section on movie rhetoric where you can hear Al Pacino deliver a powerful eulogy for a dead child as a fictional mayor in "City Hall'' or Henry V rally the troops in Shakespeare's famous "St. Crispin's Day speech'' delivered by Kenneth Branaugh and on and on.
Rhetoric has a bad reputation, but its purest sense, using language to persuade or convince, is one of the few things that makes us just a little lower than the angels.
If you're looking for DVD versions of obscure movies at a reasonable price, go to http://thesmallscreen.org/ I've recently found a couple of gems there: "Wise Blood,'' John Huston's version of Flannery O'Conner's dark comic novel about Hazel Moats, who starts "The First Church of Jesus Christ Without Jesus Christ,'' and a great old Paul Newman movie, "Sometimes A Great Notion,'' which has the most harrowing few minutes I think I've ever seen on film.
While you're wandering around the ether you might want to check out Paul D'Ambrosio's Web site at http://pauldambrosio.com/. Paul is the head of our investigative unit here at the Press, in charge of those folks who do real serious journalism, sniffing out corruption (as opposed to whatever it is I do around here). He's won dozens of big-time journalism awards and has just written his debut novel "Cold Rolled Dead.'' Buy a few copies today! Just so you know, Paul did not pay me to write that.
posted by Michael Riley at 2:31 PM
4 Comments:
In an equally meandering way I found http://theflyfishingrabbi.blogspot.com/
I think you'll enjoy it.
Here are a few more fun and helpful sites:
Important Historical Documents
The Clergy Letter Project
A History of the Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore Historical Aerial Photos
The Skeptics Society
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