Courtesy of the New Yorker, here’s the oddest thing that I’ve read in quite a while. From the Anniversary issue, Feb 11 & 18, 2008, in the article “Thinking In The Rain” by Susan Orlean, discussing the artist Steve Hollinger and his redesign/reimagining of the umbrella:
“His mother, Myrna, a sculptor who works primarily in the medium [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Dried Fish
Posted in Art, tagged Art on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
In Defense Of The Donger
Posted in movies, tagged Long Duk Dong, Sixteen Candles, movies, NPR, All Things Considered on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
NPR’s “All Things Considered” has been doing a series called ‘In Character’, which chooses an iconic character and examines that character’s influence on American culture. The series opened with a discussion of the Lone Ranger and has since covered Captain Ahab, Elmer Gantry, Blanche DuBois, and Walter Mitty, among others. Yesterday, to this distinguished [...]
This is a title. So there.
Posted in blogging, tagged blogging on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Erm . . . hi.
Never blogged before, and pretty much alway said there was no chance in hell that I ever would. Fortunately, I have very little pride and it’s fairly easily done away with, so here I am, dangling participles and all.
I intend to upload a bunch of material that I’ve previously sent out [...]
