One: Asta In the Wings author Jan Elizabeth Watson assembles a playlist for Largehearted Boy. Two: Simon Reynolds on zines. [via Warren Ellis] Three: John Siracusa on digital publishing. [via The Book Oven] This last one merits some qualification, as I don’t agree with all of Siracusa’s conclusions or his central metaphor. (There was a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Me @ Volume 1- A Quick Technical Note for the Weekend
- Afternoon Bites: Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer on criticism, the Month of Letters challenge, and more
- The Week In Reviews: Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall, the journalism of Charles Dickens, Edward St Aubyn’s prose, and more
- Afternoon Bites: Hanksy Speaks! Chabon on comics! Straub on Walhberg! and more.
- Coming Soon to a Lower East Side Near You*
February 4, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Books, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Simon Reynolds, Tin House, Warren Ellis, zines
Links: 02.04.2009
Categories: Books, Culture, Design, MusicTags:: Books, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Simon Reynolds, Tin House, Warren Ellis, zines
August 12, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
evidently, today’s theme involves the subconscious mind
Categories: Culture…because I read this just after I’d posted my earlier post. It’s amazing. This, from Human Giant, is also relevant to the subject at hand, though potentially not work-safe.
July 26, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: christopher nolan, christopher orr, criticism, david edelstein, films, keith uhlich, Reviews, the dark knight
moviegoing, critical responses, and responses to criticism
Categories: criticism, Culture, FilmTags:: christopher nolan, christopher orr, criticism, david edelstein, films, keith uhlich, Reviews, the dark knight
So I went to see The Dark Knight yesterday after work. Did I like it? That I did, though at times it seemed like a strange fusion of The Wire and The Long Halloween — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my book. It Batman Begins factored in an homage to the character’s … Continue reading
June 11, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
arts + periodicals
Categories: Art, Books, Culture, PoliticsThe debate over the loss of arts criticism in newspapers nationwide has led to a heated debate between critics Glenn Kenny and Michael Atkinson over Atkinson’s comments in this Brooklyn Rail article. (Links for both come via The House Next Door.) Kenny weighs in on his blog Some Came Running with some harsh words regarding … Continue reading
The first one of these is weirdly reminiscent of Carcassonne. Also, it made me laugh harder than I have in a long while. Also, I really want to play Aliens vs. Ghosts now.
Spent much of the last four days immersed in SXSW Interactive events. Will soon need to check out more from Henry Jenkins, Alex Wright, and others. Brain feels thoroughly expanded; reading Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day — a book which feels like it encompasses the scope of everything else I’ve read/seen/experienced in the last few … Continue reading
Things like this will leave anthropologists — space anthropologists, maybe — very baffled about the shape of our society.
August 15, 2007, Author: , Leave a comment
“…a zoologist and self-proclaimed ‘fighter against “the snowman buffs’”
Categories: CultureVia Scott comes this news story from, oh yes, Pravda. It’s about water mammoths.
Jeff Sharlet edits The Revealer, a website that I find pretty much essential; it covers religion in media, and its perspective is unlike anything else out there, I’d say. Sharlet now has a blog; one entry of said blog focuses on the issues of Daredevil written by Ann Nocenti. These floored me when I was … Continue reading