5Bully is a documentary that some might call “important;” it’s an in-depth look at America’s bullying crisis that doesn’t pull any punches about how rude kids can be to each other. In the trailer, which you can watch after the jump, there’s footage of kids getting slapped around on the school bus, even with a camera trained on them. It’s supposed to come out in limited release on March 30, but there may be a hitch in the process: the R-rating that was just handed down by the MPAA on grounds of language. An appeal to contest the ruling fell short by one vote, and The Weinstein Company, which is releasing the movie, says it might abandon the MPAA for a little while. “As of today, The Weinstein Company is considering a leave of absence from the MPAA for the foreseeable future,” TWC co-chairman Harvey Weinstein wrote in a statement. “We respect the MPAA and their process but feel this time it has just been a bridge too far.” More here.
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
— James Gleick (The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood)
Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of The Jungle Book in the pocket of his doctor’s coat, that folder-up, yellowed page torn from the back of the book, with a bristle of thick, coarse hairs clenced inside. Galina, says my grandfather’s handwriting, above and below a child’s drawing of the tiger, who is curved like the blade of a scimitar across the page. Galina, it says, and that is how I know to find him again, in Galina, in the story he hadn’t told me but perhaps wished he had.
—Téa Obreht (The Tiger’s Wife)
This is important.
Crying.
I will definitely be seeing this.
I had to reblog it again.
(via fightwellyounglions)
Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
—Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)
Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren’t really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn’t know they were insane.
—Gary Paulsen (Brian’s Winter)
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.
—Gary Paulsen (The Winter Room)
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
—Rob Sheffield (Love is a Mixtape)
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we’ve passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we’re going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.
—Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)
