May 2013
8 posts
Food scholar & UC Berkeley professor of journalism... →
“Food … is a door. You can use food to talk about the environment. You can use food to talk about culture. You can use food to talk about politics.”
Brilliant conversation.
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April 2013
14 posts
I love, by the way, that the titles of both stories below – on the subject of letters – contain the word “Entirely.”
"I Write Entirely For You" | 10/31/08 NYT Review... →
[Apropos of Cather post below…]
“These poets, in short, inspired each other. Lowell always seems to be stuffing her newest poem into his billfold, so he can take it out later like a hundred-dollar bill.”
For better or worse, I found this review far more stirring than the letters themselves. One of the most compelling pieces of writing about writing that I’ve ever read.
"Entirely Personal" | 04/26/13 NYT Review of... →
“‘I never allow quotations from personal letters to be printed,’ she wrote to a correspondent in 1936, and it was a position from which she never deviated…”
"Inky Tears" by Frank Rich, New York magazine,... →
On the demise of print journalism and the perilous future of the New York Times.
Via NPR: How Exercise And Other Activities Beat... →
Amen. Quiet as it’s kept, my greatest fear in life is brain failure of any sort in my old age. Years ago during a herniated disk episode, I od’d (not literally) on Vicodin (behold entry of Sept. 9, 2002 here) and suffered pretty severe short-term memory loss that plagued me for years thereafter. My recent resumption of a vigorous and consistent exercise routine has improved matters...
Reflections On This Week From Hell...
Between the Senate’s Wednesday torpedoing of background check-based gun control (this a bad idea because what again?) and the events in Boston on Thursday & Friday, it’s been a hell of a week around these United States.
Mine happened to begin with a read last weekend of Matt Taibbi’s “Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws” in the April 11 issue of Rolling Stone. The...
Jerry Saltz on "The Death of the Gallery Show"... →
This is important. Symbolic of so much else that is shifting societally/culturally as the world turns…
Enough...
…with the melancholia already. Also: Where has another week+ gone?!
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Where...
…has a week gone?
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March 2013
15 posts
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James Wolcott's "Breakdown of Champions" in April... →
In which Mr. Wolcott almost gets around to what I talked about wanting to get around to in my February 23rd post…
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Oliver Zahm Primer
“Artists have no gender. They have all kind of sexuality, and they can morph into all kinds of body. They transform their body. They transform their mind. They are not man or woman. It’s another kind of category, it’s another kind of human. This category needs a special bathroom.”
You have to love a guy whose initials are OZ…
– Read the February New York article...
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February 2013
10 posts
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The Cult(ure) of Professional Sports... Fandom
This morning I clicked through to an article in The Nation that a friend posted on Facebook. I haven’t read that article yet because I was waylaid by a tagline above it: “Has Anyone Done Less With More Than Michael Jordan?” It’s a compelling question and an interesting read.
This subject is particularly fascinating to me in the recent context of superstar athletes not...
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January 2013
19 posts
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