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• Books, Music, Politics

  chicago

  05.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  As someone with an interest in a lot of what’s happening in Chicago arts-wise right now, Jim DeRogatis’s coverage of the proposed promoter’s ordinance there as is well worth a read. From where I’m sitting, it sounds pretty ominous to me, especially given that (assumably) the reading I took part in last summer (sponsored by [...]

• Film, Music, Politics

  three links for tuesday, compiled while listening to wild billy childish and the blackhands

  04.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  One: Jody Rosen on Mariah Carey. When I got to the part about John Bonham, my jaw dropped, because it makes complete sense.
  Two: Timothy Noah on Peggy Noonan’s criticism of Barack Obama.
  Three: Matt Zoller Seitz leaves print journalism for filmmaking. His debut, Home, is highly recommended.

• Books, Film, Music, Politics

  the sound of rain on an unused air conditioner: monday morning links

  04.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One: David Edelstein looks at Iron Man and Redbelt.
  Two: Spencer Ackerman on Leon Wieseltier’s review of Martin Amis’s The Second Plane.
  Three: I’m going to have some longer thoughts on Reihan Salam’s Slate essay on the concept of a music tax forthcoming. For now, though: the link.

• Books, Music, Politics

  some friday evening links

  04.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One: Timothy Noah, politics, and absurdism.
  Two: If you’re looking for a way to spend hours engaged in conspiracy theories and Christian rock, have I got a link for you.
  Three: John Darnielle’s book on Master of Reality is out.

• Food, Music, Politics

  red bull + turkey jerky: monday night links

  04.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One: On Sunday, I passed what I assume is this taco cart on my way to the City Reliquary. Am I intrigued? Hell yes.
  Two: In which ace political writers talk Los Crudos. Who are, apparently, reuniting. Hot damn.
  Three: I totally misread a phrase of this as The Best of Tariq Ali.  (One can only imagine. [...]

• Music, Politics

  saturday evening, oxford collapse-listening, waiting-to-go-to-glasslands links

  02.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One: Darnielle on Darnielle. I really need to pick up Heretic Pride, and soon.
  Two: Since I brought up Matthew Yglesias on Kosovo a few days ago, it’s only fair to link his subsequent thoughts, as well as an essay on the topic from Christopher Hitchens.
  Three:  Matt Camarind is blogging Black Mountain’s current tour. Good stuff, [...]

• Books, Politics

  early morning friday links will make you a hit at dinner parties

  02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One: Matthew Yglesias looks at the concept of liberal interventionism in light of Kosovo’s independence. Well worth a read regardless of how you feel about said concept.
  Two: As a fan of both Achewood and Dark Horse Comics, this is kinda like finding out that two people who you’re quite fond of have begun dating. Except [...]

• Politics

  reading slate is educational

  02.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Part one: I really wish I’d read this article before attempting to clean up a broken bulb in my kitchen a few months ago. Heh.
  Part two: A few months ago, I posted about seeing the documentary King Corn, and commented on the film’s handling of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. Timothy Noah has a [...]

• Politics

  your public service announcement for today

  02.05.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  …here’s hoping, if you’re a resident of one of the states in question, you’re taking part in the Super Tuesday primaries/caucuses. It’s not a bad thing, this political process of ours.

• Politics

  a brief and relatively inoffensive political thought

  01.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s a strange and exciting thought that, hey, this year the New York primary elections might actually mean something.
  Though given the success of the candidates to whom my votes went in ‘00 and ‘04 (Bradley and Edwards, respectively), it might be more useful to cast a pre-emptive vote in the direction of someone I dislike.

• Books, Politics

  talking liberal interventionist blues

  10.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In hardcore, buckle-down fiction-writing times (such as the one I’m in now), I read a lot of nonfiction. Lately, much of the nonfiction I’ve been reading has dealt with current and recent events: I’m about two-thirds done with Samantha Power’s “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide; prior to that, I took [...]

• Politics

  sometimes, controversial visits by high-ranking Iranian politicians require complex sentiments to be displayed from window-hung banners. and sometimes not.

  09.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Via the lens of Diana Wong comes this photograph, depicting a sign whose message roughly approximates my conflicted feelings on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University today.

• Politics

  06.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Timothy Noah — maybe my favorite writer on the current political scene — is evaluating the field of ‘08 Presidential candidates by their healthcare plans, beginning with the junior Senator from Illinois. It’s well worth reading, as Noah makes the case pretty convincingly that healthcare will be the most significant issue of said campaign.

• Film, Politics

  the army is sending a stealth bomber to blow up a manticore

  05.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  …there’s something inherently weird — I don’t want to say offensive, because I find this more surreal than anything — about grafting a pretty standard “bug hunt” plotline onto a scenario taken from a military conflict that’s still ongoing.
  Either way, yes, the manticore is presented as a weapon of mass destruction.
  This is really, really [...]

• Film, Politics

  okay…

  05.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  No Tori Spelling.
  Still: “Half-lion, half-dragon: the deadliest weapon of the ancient world is reborn in modern Iraq. Now, one squad of U.S. soldiers must risk their lives to stop it before it wipes out all mankind.”
  Seriously. It has manticore-cam and a helpful moppet saying, “Come! Come with me!”
  I’m not entirely convinced that I’m not hallucinating [...]

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