Was it ethically acceptable of me to buy Volume I of Robert A Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning 3000-page Lyndon Baines Johnson biography, get bored by page 3, then exchange it for the Justin Timberlake

This documentary is high on my to see list - still frustrated that I missed the when it was briefly in the theater around here.

It's on Criterion now

That's what I don't get--it was supposed to be on Criterion in August (I posted on the Criterion Channel thread), but when I checked the other night, and again this morning, it's not there. Again, if you have a good hookup and don't mind paying $5, it's on YouTube (and Google Play).

the eye closing seems to be a tic of some sort

gottlieb was the star of this, just impossibly erudite and charismatic. was worried the film (made by his daughter) would be too sentimental, but it’s just tender. I loved it

It's amazing to me that anybody could devote as much of his life as Gottleib has to someone else's life's work. Putting out his own books all the while obviously helps--tried to find a cheap copy of Avid Reader last night, couldn't--but that's still a monumentally ego-less act. I want to go back now and read about what kind of relationship he had with Kael...will check the Kellow book.

That's what I don't get--it was supposed to be on Criterion in August (I posted on the Criterion Channel thread), but when I checked the other night, and again this morning, it's not there.

Checking their August additions post, I see it is indeed marked US-only.

I'm wounded and deeply offended. You just wait till I make five-hour documentary on Joey Smallwood.

It's no biggie if you don't read the volumes in order.

i'm listening to it on audible at 1.5x to keep sanity while baby wrangling. it's 66 hours. still have 10 to go. it's Quite Good.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, May 1, 2018 1:50 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

listened to the power broker with baby #1 and the first three vols of lbj with baby #2 and lockdown like this. different times.

threads that give you palpitations when you see them revived

i picked up my NYPL library card at the main library at bryant park on friday, and they had a "books written here" display so i was thinking about him. hope he's doing well.