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I like the Internet for various things, but it’s limited. I’m not on social media, but you will find me in the social media. There’s Facebook, there’s Twitters, but it’s all not me. —Werner Herzog in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter The night before his 2016 documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World premiered at […] If Werner Herzog Reviewed Trader Joe’s on Yelp:...

London-based couple Filippo and Marianna's self-isolation project calls to mind artist (and museum curator) Bill Scanga's At the Met, exhibited nearly 20 years ago as part of the group show Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now known as MoMA PS1). Scanga's installation involved hanging mini-replicas of works from the Metropolitan Museum's American collection […] An Art Gallery for Gerbils: Two Quarantined Londoners...

The British comedian Graham Chapman delighted in offending people. As a writer and actor with the legendary Monty Python troupe, he pushed against the boundaries of propriety and good taste. When his writing partner John Cleese proposed doing a sketch on a disgruntled man returning a defective toaster to a shop, Chapman thought: Broken toaster? […] John Cleese’s Eulogy for Graham Chapman: ‘Good Riddance,...

My beach house must be somewhere around here. I used to be able to see the ocean from it. I should be able to see it from the ocean. Ooo, that looks familiar. Lady Liberty. Ha ha! Hellooo! All the best to you.     —Admiral Horatio Horntower Are there any Better Call Saul fans among the global warming […] Bob Odenkirk & Errol Morris Create Comedic Shorts...