#313; In which Dan had High Hopes

I am in Boston this week! It is eight million degrees outside. I had no idea that Paul Revere once lived on the surface of the sun.

Totally unrelated to that, my good friend Eric Lichtenfeld has written a book all about action movies, tracing the evolution of the genre from Westerns to Dirty Harry up through Arnold & Sly all the way to the present. And this week, he's written an article for Slate, exploring the phenomenon of the "one-liner" in considerable depth. Check it out here.