nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Just discovered this thread -- and 4chan, actually... /b/ is totally demented.
/b/ is great--if you like child porn and middle school humor
Just discovered this thread -- and 4chan, actually... /b/ is totally demented.
And I think we miss the role of charismatic editors and public intellectuals, actually. I quite admire, for example, the New York Intellectuals. It's a great lost tradition, combining erudition, fluency, combat, reportage, activism. I do think you have to earn your right to comment, by being good enough to get paid and published.
on a vaguely related topic, i'm a bit interested in what free web content at newspaper homepages is doing for the print paid physical daily editions (i'm a guy who often has the ritual of his paper), in the long run certainly. i think i remember a thread on same here where we discussed advertising.
the media crit at The Reader, Michael Miner, is often quite interesting on these sorts of things.
Have some time for Kamm, but can't stick, or really read, Normblog, or Harry's. They get up my nose. I have a lot more time for Oliver Kamm's mother, Anthea Bell, who, alongside Dick Hockridge, translated all the Asterix books into English, and is therefore one of the greatest translators in the history on translation (read the English Asterix the Legionary if you don't believe me).
Sidney Hook. Clement Greenberg. Two you can't dismiss.
I studied Art History under Griselda Pollock, who I adored, and she put me off Greenberg, and so many others, for years. It took a while to work out she was half-wrong. I now have a lot of time for Greenberg.
that Brecht anecdote he's retold a couple of times is first-rate, when the playwright visits Hook.
really shows up Brecht's vile personal politics.
But there's nothing quite like blogging to inflate your sense of self-importance.
fuck yeah. blogging messed me up good and proper. i like to think i've got things back into perspective now.
blogging is like parenting. it requires no qualifications, so any idiot can do it, but so many prove to be hopelessy incapable at the task. abuse is rife, lives get ruined, monsters are spawned, the world gets a little bit grimmer.
and, like parents, blogs fuck you up. just say no, kids..
in my experience, right-wingers tend to be much more personally pleasant than left-wingers generally... i'm not sure why this is.