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"He declared, in front of his old apartment complex, on West Seventy-first, “This is it! The ugliest building on the block.” It certainly was. “Four hundred and seventy-five dollars a month,” he explained. “My friends and I would take gourds up to the roof, after Halloween, and toss them off. The goal was to shot-put a pumpkin so you hit the street between the rows of parked cars—you’d really have to use your geometry. When someone misjudged, we’d do the right thing, and run away."
— Bryan Cranston takes The New Yorker’s Tad Friend on a walking tour of his old stomping grounds on NYC’s Upper West Side. Read more. -
Cartoon of the night by Emily Flake. For more: http://nyr.kr/OPTpFP
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Emily Nussbaum on “Breaking Bad,” “a very strange kind of must-watch: a show that you dread and crave at the same time.” Click-through to continue reading: http://nyr.kr/R57IVz
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This may be the scariest aspect of “Breaking Bad,” and of the drug trade itself: the more ghoulish and extreme the show becomes, the more it seems to traffic not in realism but in horror, and the more accurately it captures the reality of the cartels and their business.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the uncannily accurate depiction of the meth trade in “Breaking Bad”: http://nyr.kr/LVdeWu
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Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/wNE5nX
(Source: newyorker.com)
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At base, I object to any system that makes me feel like a store clerk in “High Fidelity.” Those guys are not my guys. I mean, I don’t follow basketball statistics. I watch the Oscars for the starlet meltdowns and I don’t expect the “best movie” to be the best movie. I black out when I try to calculate the tip. Please don’t make me tell you the best television show of the year.
Although the answer is obviously _______
- Click through to read TV Critic Emily Nussbaum’s answer, and more on why she hates top ten lists: http://nyr.kr/uXo7bC
