August 2009
18 posts
Elitism
natashavc:
karinalongworth:
1) Critics and reporters are two types of journalists. My MA in Cinema Studies probably doesn’t qualify me to perform either type of journalism, but I’ve managed to fake it as a critic for a few years and it’s going okay so far. I don’t trust criticism when it comes from a reporter with cultivated sources inside “the Hollywood Industrial Complex.” But that’s just...
Immaturity
Resisting the urge to comment “PLAY ‘SUMMER OF ‘69’”
Finally, they are open! The most Brooklyn block in... →
thingsiate:
But why did I get an e-mail from Franny’s announcing that the hot dog joint on Bergen is finally open? Those dudes are becoming the town criers, for god’s sake.
The hot dogs cost twice as much as the (local, microbrew) beer. What a country!
This is a song about how a girl asked Prince if he...
The Uptown (Bar) is Closing →
antishowmanship:
There’s not much point in bemoaning the death of Uptown (the neighborhood) as anything but an open-air mall, as that happened 15 years ago, but still: the Uptown is the only tolerable bar left within 3 blocks of Hennepin and Lake, and probably the best of all the tolerable bars in the Harriet/Calhoun/Lake of the Isles area. Also, last time I checked Tommy and Bob Stinson’s mom...
ninety9:
Since we’re sort of on the topic of festivals, I see that Waitstock is defunct. We tried a teensy version of this in Brooklyn earlier in the week (sample: at some point — say 4AM — the Charles Mingus soundtrack reminded someone of the Green Lantern — you read that right — theme; Green Lantern was Alan Scott, but one of the attendees thought it was a guy named Brit. And the only Brit he...
“I’m consistently (nearly 100%) struck by the difference between white...”
– English people don’t “get” racism. See also: The popular children’s toy and jam mascot “Golly,” who survived in toy shops and on labels well into the 21st century, and this important 2007 internet message board international conference on race relations.
On deciding that The Awl is a waste of my time...
soupsoup:
I check in on the Awl from time to time, mostly for Natasha Vargas-Cooper, who I consider one of the better bloggers around these here interwebs. What turns me off from the Awl is the tone that reflects the cult of personality around the former Gawker writers that post there, like Choire.
The writers and commenters there are a circle jerk of the so-called golden age of Gawker...
On deciding that The Awl is a waste of my time...
nerdshares:
And then I read this post, which is all about how Choire didn’t read that David Denby review of Inglourious Basterds in the New Yorker. No, I’m not kidding. It’s essentially an excuse for Choire to brag about dismissing Denby after “1/3 of a sentence.” (Probably because Choire is not about to indulge Denby because Denby hates snark and snarkers hate Denby.)
Just FYI, people hate...
Fucking hell. James Luther Dickinson is dead. He...
This goddamn week, y'all. →
maura:
On the bright side, at least I got to use that Naked Gun animated GIF in a “professional” context.
This is an important public service Maura is performing (and it is 100 times sharper and less credulous than that inane GOSSIPCOP thing that I haven’t looked at since Day 1 when it was made up entirely of boring items followed by routine publicist denials) and also I am ashamed of the...
Sorry, John Hughes. You didn't direct 'Can't... →
natashavc:
Nor did you do ‘Empire Records’.
And Judd Nelson was never our idea of cool. And the term ‘dope’ was never used in your teenage lexicon. To my generation you were the ‘Curley Sue’ guy.
RIP, though.
Well, regardless, you should probably acknowledge that both of those movies owe something of a debt to the work Mr. Hughes, especially Can’t Hardly Wait, which is basically...
Am I Missing The Bit Where It Makes Sense?
This is supposed to be a cogent argument against single-payer? It would harm the social status of doctors by making them de facto government employees? The current system is unsustainable but techno-utopian nonsense will swoop in to fix it?
In short, jesus fucking christ.
Mutton Bustin': An Investigation
Guys I know it’s a Saturday AND after 5 p.m. (so most of you should be out of bed by now, right?) but I am just really pleased with Moe and myself, for this and this.
Hello! Today, I am editing Deadspin, with Moe.