Mixed lollies
Okay, hey-ho let's go with some fab lolly linkages.From Mark, if it's not on the net it doesn't exist.
From Stephen, media in a keyword bidding war (via Marginal Revolution)and Barack Obama's Myspace page is under new management (via Tim Worstall, who also gives us his quote of the week). Jessica Alba is self-conscious and doesn't want her movies to be about her and her bikini. And, Tim Blair meets John Malkovich.
From Chris, Scarlett backs the Jesus and Mary Chain, cutely (via Dubdotdash). How Hollywood hotshots are fighting back against Bittorrent and file sharing.
Some depressing thoughts for authors everywhere — but if this is true, how come the 2007 edition of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is filled with (presumably thriving) literary agents? How are they all paying the rent, if not without using author royalties? Private incomes?
Via Arts & Letters Daily, breakfast, anyone? “King Edward, in his final illness, took his doctor’s advice and promised to limit himself to two cigars before breakfast.” With a hat-tip to Deborah on PA System, this is definitely the best Kurt Vonnegut obit online — and be sure to click on the link to the official Vonnegut website.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps is well worth reading.
And from me, the people have spoken: George Bush is the worst president since Jimmy Carter. France is about to become a Red State. Marty Kaplan asks whether a Murdoch controlled Wall Street Journal would have led with a 3000 word obituary to the Iraq war.
From Stephen, media in a keyword bidding war (via Marginal Revolution)and Barack Obama's Myspace page is under new management (via Tim Worstall, who also gives us his quote of the week). Jessica Alba is self-conscious and doesn't want her movies to be about her and her bikini. And, Tim Blair meets John Malkovich.
From Chris, Scarlett backs the Jesus and Mary Chain, cutely (via Dubdotdash). How Hollywood hotshots are fighting back against Bittorrent and file sharing.
Some depressing thoughts for authors everywhere — but if this is true, how come the 2007 edition of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is filled with (presumably thriving) literary agents? How are they all paying the rent, if not without using author royalties? Private incomes?
Via Arts & Letters Daily, breakfast, anyone? “King Edward, in his final illness, took his doctor’s advice and promised to limit himself to two cigars before breakfast.” With a hat-tip to Deborah on PA System, this is definitely the best Kurt Vonnegut obit online — and be sure to click on the link to the official Vonnegut website.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps is well worth reading.
And from me, the people have spoken: George Bush is the worst president since Jimmy Carter. France is about to become a Red State. Marty Kaplan asks whether a Murdoch controlled Wall Street Journal would have led with a 3000 word obituary to the Iraq war.
posted by Rob O'Neill at 8:21 PM
4 Comments:
Fascist america in 10 easy steps. Hilarious. Was that from The Onion?
'... well worth reading'? only for a laugh. The woman is an idiot.
“Bush is portrayed as a moron. I’ve only conversed with him a couple of times – not for very long – but I found he was more literate on literature than the editor of the New York Review of Books, Bob Silvers. I’ve talked to both of them, and he makes Bob Silvers look like a slug.” He laughs, possibly at the idea of New York’s literary-set frothing into their cappuccinos over the latest blow in a long but low-intensity conflict. (In the 1960s Wolfe mocked the Review as the “chief theoretical organ of Radical Chic”, after it published a cover picture showing how to make a Molotov cocktail. "
Now that is what you really wanted to refer us to :)
You guys just trawl the internet in a trance, don't you, waiting for someone to post something that disturbs your worldview, whereupon you briefly wake up to protest?
Thanks for the link, sagenz. No, this one's not from The Onion, either. The TOM WOLFE INTERVIEW is here:
http://tinyurl.com/2zsnc9
The words 'Bush' and 'literature' have no place in the same sentence, let alone in the same argument, so I'm not going to grace this with much of a response, except: “Very few people remember the way Reagan was portrayed as an idiot...” Really? Wolfe surely means the only memorable thing about Reagan. And by “portrayed” he surely means “typecast”.
I don't pretend to know what Wolfe's beef with Silvers is, and he doesn't bother to mention what literature they discussed during either of their brief meetings. The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, perhaps. But pick a country, any country; then select 100 extant novelists in that country and ask them how literate Bush's view of literature is. I wager no more than a handful would agree with Wolfe. But your limited reality consensus awaits you.
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