Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
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Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
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Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#2...and an eloquent, nuanced, and powerful reading of the tome:
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#3https://brianjayjones.com/2020/08/11/sixty-years-of-green-eg...
For the those who don’t want to read a twitter thread but want a posting by the original author.
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#4“Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn’t write a book using only 50 words,” he said later. “I did it to show I could.” This encapsulated the lesson I learned from the recent Michael Jordan documentary - take silly bets and trivial insults seriously and you can be driven to do great things.
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#5“Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn’t write a book using only 50 words,” he said later. “I did it to show I could.” This encapsulated the lesson I learned from the recent Michael Jordan documentary - take silly bets and trivial insults seriously and you can be driven to do great things.
Gee, just 5 minutes ago I was thinking on how Werner Herzog bet Errol Morris that Morris wouldn't finish the documentary he'd started, or Herzog would eat his shoe. Now that is a friend, and a great motivating bet. And I loved Gates of Heaven.
"After a few unproductive months, he happened to read a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle that read, "450 Dead Pets Going To Napa Valley". Morris left for Napa Valley and began working on the film that would become his first feature, Gates of Heaven, which premiered in 1978. Herzog had said he would eat his shoe if Morris completed the documentary. After the film premiered, Herzog publicly followed through on the bet by cooking and eating his shoe, which was documented in the short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe by Les Blank. ...Critic Roger Ebert was and remained a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list."
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#6...and an eloquent, nuanced, and powerful reading of the tome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA
...or a more modernist rap of the same:
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#7For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too.
Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
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#8For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
I like this one by the same author: https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165...
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#9Offtopic, but on the topic of green eggs, several differents breeds of chickens can lay green, and even blue and lavender colored eggs.
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#10https://brianjayjones.com/2020/08/11/sixty-years-of-green-eg... For the those who don’t want to read a twitter thread but want a posting by the original author.
Why on Earth are we linking to Twitter when it's on his website? (And also, why didn't he put that as the first tweet, not the last?)