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A look back, for Labor Day
Times being what they are, teachers probably no longer ask this question I remember being asked often, or at least once a term, way back in grade school: “Where does your dad work?” One at a time, we’d all answer, … Continue reading
Made in the USA
Want to support American jobs? Buy a book. Printers, writers, booksellers, librarians, loggers, editors — these are few of the mostly domestic jobs your book-buying buck underwrites. I think this holds true for most countries, and I’m certain it’s true … Continue reading
This week in conspicuous art theft
Isn’t it great when the thief looks directly at the camera? At about 6pm, on Thursday, August 11, the master criminal depicted above strolled into the Marc Ecko Gallery on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, and strolled out with $100,000 … Continue reading
27
Is it a curse, or a coincidence? Why are so many bright stars extinguished, at the height of their luminosity, at the age of 27? Amy Winehouse is only the latest. Like with many who passed before her, our collective … Continue reading
Posted in New Post
Tagged 27, Amy Winehouse, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Pat Tillman, Robert Johnson
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The Call of Lovecraft
What does a writer want? No doubt there are as many answers to that as there are writers–as many writers as there have ever been, in fact. But throughout those innumerable answers, most of which probably revolve around fame, fortune … Continue reading
Bummed about Borders
Goodbye Borders, and thanks for everything. Perhaps the liquidation of Borders Books & Music is good news for independent booksellers. And although the indies are personal heroes of mine, I can’t share in their joy. Borders might have been a … Continue reading
Rupert Murdoch and the culture of sleeze
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of analyzing the cultural impact of News Corp’s phone-hacking scandal is its constant evolving nature. Conclusions we draw today might very well be rendered irrelevant by the admissions, revelations, resignations and indictments sure to come … Continue reading
Posted in New Post
Tagged fox news, news corp, phone hacking, rebekah brooks, rupert murdoch
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The court of public spectacle
We try to keep it light here at the Deconstruction. Matters of child murder, and capital trials, are generally beyond our purview. But we were born unto a society that delves into such things, that anachronistically holds one or two … Continue reading
The end of all mankind! (for lulz)
You would think, wouldn’t you, that one of the primary tenets of the entertainment industry would be: don’t bum out your audience. But how then are we to explain the post-apocalypse drama? Each year, amongst the slew of sparkly vampire … Continue reading
An eagle flips the switch
You know how sometimes you get annoyed with the neighbors and all their loud music and television and too-bright lights? You know how sometimes you just want to march over there and turn off their power? Well this is how … Continue reading
That’s Ava Gardner up there, making the moon eyes. Pretty much every candid picture you see of Hemingway is just like that – he’s the undisputed center of attention. Now a couple of movies, Midnight in Paris and Hemingway and … Continue reading
Book Detective: marginalia
Marginalia. Librarians, archivists and some collectors consider it vandalism. Marginalia are the comments, asides, underlining and bizarre streams of consciousness that wind up inked or penciled into the margins of books over the hopefully long course of their lives. I … Continue reading
Charles J. Berry, USMC
Cpl. Charles J. Berry of Lorain Ohio served with the First Battalion, Fifth Marine Division. He gave his life on March 3, 1945, on Iwo Jima. During a Japanese infiltration attack he diligently and expertly manned a machine gun emplacement, … Continue reading
Smutmerchant
I won’t dwell on the subject much, this being a family newspaper and all, but if you ever get the urge to do some eye-opening sociology fieldwork, then get yourself a job in a porn store. Think the giga-tera-petabytes of … Continue reading
