We hope as you enjoy your weekend you’ll also find some time to kick back and survey some of the best writing from around the web. Check them out, but don’t miss Hulafrog’s Weekend Guide for some other great things to enjoy over the weekend.

• “Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito Suddenly Realize They Will be Villains in Oscar-Winning Movie One Day”, from the Onion. 

  

  • “Oh, God, the major social ramifications, the political intrigue, all the important people involved in the case—I’m going to be played by some sinister character actor in a drama with tons of award buzz, aren’t I?” said Scalia, joining his fellow dissenting justices in realizing they would be antagonists in a film potentially titled Defense Of Marriage and probably written by Tony Kushner.”

• “The Curse of the Pixar Universe“, by Richard Brody, from the New Yorker.
  • Richard Brody gets downright curmudgeon-y in his review of the new Pixar movie “Inside-Out”. The film dramatizes the inner thoughts of an eleven-year-old child as she navigates a difficult move with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco and other problems. Characters, voiced by an all-star cast, personify her emotions: joy, anger, sadness etc inside her “Headquarters”. An inventive choice, but for Brody, it was a major missed opportunity to really explore the unique anarchy of a young mind:
    “There should be resentment, jealousy, emulation, curiosity, fascination, and a wider web of connections—history, tradition, lore, anecdotes, all sorts of indirect experience that looms as large in selfhood as do domestic routines and comforts. The wonder of childhood is the opposite of the cozy vision of “Inside Out”—the sense of bigness, of a vast world remaining to be discovered. A world that offers surprises and secrets at virtually every turn, that launches flights of fancy during all activities, whether ordinary or dramatic.”I’ll still see (and enjoy) the movie. I just loved Brody’s writing on childhood.

• “The Cover Letter of Every College Student With a Liberal Arts Degree“, by Sophia Paslaski, from McSweeney’s.
  • “I am applying for your social media specialist position. Though I am a recent graduate with an entirely irrelevant degree in Ancient Latvian Pastel Art Interpretation Through Lithuanian Chamber Music and Hungarian Novelists, I believe my extensive experience in social media maintenance as publicist for the Patriots College Star Wars Club has more than prepared me for the rigors of this position.”

As always, please feel free to comment with responses to the Covered Bridge stories or suggestions of your own.

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