Mixed lollies
Quite right. That’s not Scarlett musing it up, it’s Gloria Swanson, deliciously gazing out from the past and into the future. It’s been two months since our last Mixed lollies so there’s a lot of catching up to do. Mark likes this piece on the new age of ignorance in the Observer, which was so popular that it has even been Boing Boinged.Stephen has been sehr fleißig and offers us a bulging bag of lollies, starting with a New York Times piece on the difficulties of trying to sell contraception, via Marginal Revolution; a number of items currently gracing Chase Me Ladies which epitomise the state of modern England, as well as Harry Hutton’s killer fact about the shocking price of cocaine in New Zealand; this Guardian blog post on the shocking truth of the publishing slush pile; the extraordinary Keri Hulme at Huia on purple food and Maori spuds (she has a blog!); SS likes what he describes as an “outstanding example” of a blogger doing the MSM’s job for them; and The Institute of the Future of the Book, via the Economist’s arts blog, More Intelligent Life, which Stephen finds oddly US-centric; he urges us to try Monkey Fluids — “Well, I think it’s funny” (and, by Jove, I think he’s right!); there’s only a couple of days left in which to download Prince’s new single for free (via Popbitch); and Mr Stratford is definitely all Princed up this week, given that music industry retailers in the UK are very uppity about Prince's sheer gall for daring to give his music away on a CD in a British newspaper. Isn’t it his music to do with as he wishes? A saying from unique King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp’s diary deserves to be an epigram:
“I am not choosing an easier life; I am choosing a better quality of problem.”NZBC reader Chris McBride likes the first paragraph of this from the New York Magazine, about the “clusterfuck” that is the northern hemisphere’s summer arts calendar this year.
I like Judy Garland reminiscing about one of my favourite songs of all time, and one of the songs of the last century. But my favourite of the month is a group of writers, including Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem and Richard Posner, revealing which font they compose in and why, on the ever-entertaining Slate.
Now back to the typewriters by way of Washington Square…
posted by Chris Bell at 8:56 PM
2 Comments:
The return of Mixed Lollies and NZBC's favourite blog Sir Humphreys now reborn as http://nominister.blogspot.com/
well life is looking up again :)
DarrenG
To find out about the rates for advertising on NZBC, Darren, just give the DG a call. We accept most major currencies.
And, incidentally, in case you care: font-wise I'm a Bembo man. Look it up on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bembo
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