[HN Gopher] Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham ___________________________________________________________________ Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham Author : amanuensis Score : 26 points Date : 2020-08-11 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | drrevjj wrote: | ...and an eloquent, nuanced, and powerful reading of the tome: | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA | qrybam wrote: | ...or a more modernist rap of the same: | | https://youtu.be/nwDGRUzv3SE | Jtsummers wrote: | https://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. | CarbyAu wrote: | For 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 | kanobo wrote: | "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. | yesenadam wrote: | 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. " | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-08-11 23:00 UTC)