Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Don’t Play Bridge With Your Wife
Don’t Play Bridge with Your Wife is a short 18-minute cinematic gem from 1933, made when bridge reached a notorious peak as a popular household game. (Partially, we can thank Ely Culbertson’s Contract Bridge Blue Book for this.) The 30s made an interesting time for cinematic history. Gone with the Wind (1939), King Kong (1933),…
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When time stood still
I held back considerably, thus the makeable (GRAND) slam was deftly avoided. Vickie ruffed out West’s ♠5 lead, cashed ♥AK, then ♦10-J-Q held. Then she exited 3rd ♥ to East’s Q and ruffed the ♠ back with ♥10, her last trump. Now 2nd ♦ to K-Ace, ♦ back to her 9. All this went ZIP-ZAP-ZOP…
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V for Villanelle. Interview with BBOer Fred Rogers
If you haven’t heard of villanelles before, you’ve been missing out on some great poetry. And yet at the same time, most people have heard of Villanelles without knowing it: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas is one of the most famous examples – and one that has stuck with…
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