Saturday Night/Sunday Warning S2E16: In the Deathstar crèche
Another instalment of weekly recommendations and miscellaneous items.
This is the weekly round-up of things I liked in the past seven days + extra content for paid subscribers.
4 Things I Actually Enjoyed This Week
1. ARTICLE
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito on Life and Death
by Danny DeVito for Interview
SCHWARZENEGGER: What was really extraordinary was that the lake that I grew up by froze in the winter with really thick ice, so you could have horse or motorcycle races on it, and ice curling championships. And of course, ice skating.
DEVITO: Did you get tourists?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Very rarely. For us, tourists were the people from the city. On a weekend there would be three to four thousand people around the lake. They would be lying down on the grass with the blankets and all that stuff.
DEVITO: Oh wow.
SCHWARZENEGGER: That’s where I made my first business at the age of ten. I sold ice cream bars. I went to the restaurant in front, got a box, filled it with ice, and then put the ice cream bars in there.
DEVITO: Ice pops.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Exactly. I was carrying it around the lake, screaming, “Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream!”
2. ALBUM
Rakshak by Bloodywood
Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify
Bloodywood is an Indian folk metal band and they are amazing. The music speaks for itself… loudly.
3. ARTICLE
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
by Dan Sheehan for LitHub
“For Mr. Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair. Though the indignation of Nineteen Eighty-Four is singeing, the book does suffer from a division of purpose. Is it an account of present hysteria, is it a satire on propaganda, or a world that sees itself entirely in inhuman terms? Is Mr Orwell saying, not that there is no hope, but that there is no hope for man in the political conception of man?”
–V.S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949
4. ARTICLE
UK news brand trust rankings: The Sun is the least-trusted and BBC and FT lead the way…
Aisha Majid for Press Gazette
Ahahahahaha.
The Sun came in last as the news outlet most likely to be considered untrustworthy. Over half (59%) of respondents said that the Sun was untrustworthy with 36% saying that it was "very untrustworthy" in their view. Some 6% of people considered the brand trustworthy, giving it a net trust score of -53. Asked about the survey findings, a spokesperson for the Sun said: "The Sun is the best read newsbrand in the UK and we are proud of our record of standing up for our readers, and campaigning on their behalf."
Updates, Corrections & Clarifications
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