To kick off the first edition of the “Be Like Quinn” reportagé, we’ll start with your recommended Sunday morning reading habits.
First, prepare the scene by making some nice fresh coffee, and then eat a borderline healthy breakfast.
Second, listen to some music. It’s recommended you pick something suitably highbrow, like CBC Radio 2 if they happen to be playing a concerto or some chamber music.
Third, read, in no particular order, the following:
- Perfectly Happy (new happiness research informs policy and law)
- Gentility Takes a Holiday (Amis and others are termed blokes, but it’s problematic)
- All He Surveyed (retrospective on Palladio and his influence on modernity, architecture)
- Whedon’s World (Dollhouse is no Buffy)
- Weimar Club-Hopping(When Germany was cool the air wafted of cocaine)
- The Good Fight (tai chi can be cool and used for fighting, but instead it’s the domain of the loonies)
- The Sky’s the Limit (when you are rich and it is a depression why not dress up like a skyscraper and party?)
- Infinite Wisdom (set theory, the silent killer)
- Port Authority (port, it’s expensive and delicious)
- Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief (Michelle Obama is so feminist she doesn’t even need to be a feminist)
- Stress tests behind them, banks move to pay back TARP funds (turns out, banks don’t much like government regulation)
- The Meltdown Goes Global (it’s bad, for everyone)
- The Interview: Jessica Valenti (she’s hot and a feminist)
- End of the Road (nobody likes Ireland anymore, especially not the young people)
- Grosse Pointe Blues (and I thought it was just in a movie)
