The Shelf Life Of A Movie Actor

My Hunch Is That Pop Culture Began To Stagnate The Moment Americans Started To Love The Past More Than They Did The Future.

After The Collapse Of Wall Street In The 1920s, The Culture Stopped Being All About Money, And The Country Survived And Ultimately Flourished.

Magazine Stories, The Best Ones Anyway, Are Generally A Combination Of Three Elements: Access, Narrative, And Disclosure.

Where Past Generations Had Film Cameras, Scrapbooks, Notebooks, And That Part Of The Brain Which Stores Memories, We Now Have A Smartphone App For Every Conceivable Recording Need. The Thing Is, All That Time You Spend Logging And Then Curating The Quotidian Aspects Of Your Daily Life Is Time Taken Away From Actually Doing Things.

I Have Always Thought You Could Take The Measure Of A Man By His Sports Manners - That Is To Say, The Way In Which He Conducts Himself On The Playing Field, Or Even Over A Game Of Chess Or Cards.