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Spineless Classics
Media mashups are often iffy propositions. “Artistic segregation” might sound like a bad thing, but there’s usually a good reason why artistic genres, types and mediums are remorselessly assigned to their narrow cubbies. Andy Warhol never should have tried making movies, … Continue reading
Back with Bourdain, bringing a dark Christmas
Anthony Bourdain has a dark side; that’s at least half of what makes him so entertaining. But Bourdain can’t be blamed for the dismembering of Christmas-cheer that is the legend of Krampus. Krampus is St. Nick’s demonic sidekick, according to … Continue reading
The Panel of Lions
What can we tell from the most cursory examination of this painting? Well, it’s plain to see that a pride of lions is stalking something. The object of their fascination isn’t visible to us, but all of them are clearly … Continue reading
Guernica 3D
Is great art static? Does it capture a moment in time, then remain unchanged for posterity? Or is it permissible to reinterpret historical masterpieces with modern technology for the sake of new appreciation? These aren’t hypothetical questions. Artist Lena Gieseke … Continue reading
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Tagged Guernica, history, Lena Gieseke, Michele Smarty, Picasso, Words I Seek
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How TV chefs saved Thanksgiving
Pop culture critics are sometimes hard pressed to find anything redeeming in pop culture. I confess to finding myself afflicted in just that way, very often indeed. But there’s one pop-culture phenomenon that, although it’s been pilloried by many, I … Continue reading
Just another plagiarist
If working writers were designers of the afterlife, then a particularly brutal hell would be waiting for plagiarists. plagiarize 1716, from plagiary (c.1600), from plagiarius “one who kidnaps the child or slave of another,” also “a literary thief,” from plagiare “to kidnap” (see plagiarism). Related:Plagiarized; plagiarizing … Continue reading
A novel in a month? Crazy talk!
November is National Novel Writing Month. More familiarly, it’s NaNoWriMo. That’s not merely a month of salutation to the idea of writing a novel…it’s actually writing one. In a month. NaNoWriMo has been around since 1999. This is my first … Continue reading
Shakespeareans Anonymous
The old, raging debate about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays (and presumably, of his other work) has reignited, thanks to the new John Orloff/Roland Emmerich release, Anonymous. I haven’t seen the film, but I understand it posits that the Earl … Continue reading
Of saints, sinners and relics
John Lennon’s tooth is for sale. That was one of the weirdest sentences I’ve ever written. Omega Auctions of Cheshire, UK is handling the sale (Cheshire Cat joke, anyone?). The molar/memorabilia has been projected to fetch £10,000, although as Omega’s … Continue reading
How to change the subject (in a thoroughly incompetent way)
The nitwits in charge of messaging for Building A Better Ohio (the GOP-backed proponents of State Issue 2 – which would limit collective-bargaining rights for Ohio public employees) have a lot of ‘splaining to do. It seems they lifted video … Continue reading
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Tagged Building a Better Ohio, Ohio, Senate Bill 5, State Issue 2, unions, We are Ohio
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This is what democracy is SUPPOSED to look like
Occupy Wall Street, the grass-roots, pro-middle-class protest movement that began on September 17th, has morphed. Owing to its success, the resonance of its message and its expansion to (so far) 70 other major cities, it has necessarily abbreviated its handle … Continue reading
When fame is fleeting
So Kate Gosselin is looking for a job. The former reality TV star (2007-2011) and mother of eight, currently unemployed, is reportedly fretting over finances and seeking a new gig. Prior to meta-motherhood and small-screen divadome Kate was a registered … Continue reading
Startling Proof!
Currently on Ebay (for the totally reasonable Buy-It-Now price of one million dollars, plus shipping) is this rather awesome photograph – certainly taken circa 1870 in Tennessee, and maybe depicting Nicolas Cage: Coppola nephew and alleged actor. So what do … Continue reading
Just make something
One of the perversities of American culture, one that has lamentably spread worldwide, is the conflation of the terms, wealth and worth. As in, “What are you worth?” Asking that question is another way of declaring that one’s net value … Continue reading
