“My own dog, gone commercial!”

from The Atlantic via MSN Charlie Brown’s Inside Job by Caitlin Flanagan For half a century, it’s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as...

Besottedness

from The Atlantic What Drives Writers to Drink? Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle by JAMES PARKER A portrait of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) sitting in an unidentified bar in the early...

Speed Buggy Back

from MSN An Oil Scion Is Giving a ’60s-Era Dune Buggy a New Lease on Life by Hannah Elliott (Bloomberg Businessweek) — The centerpiece of Phillip Sarofim’s Los Angeles home is his garage. The immaculate space holds two of the most collectible cars in the world:...

VG Rising

from MarketWatch Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic COVID-19 lockdowns expected to help global gaming sales rise 20% to nearly $180 billion in 2020, and experts don’t see growth taking a hit in 2021...