The headline from last week’s article reveals the problem as well as anything else might: “King: Writers with Commercial Success Need Recognition.”
AP writer Hillel Italie’s article goes on to inform us of Stephen King’s recent acceptance speech for an honorary lifetime achievement award from the Nation Book Foundation during which he called for literary critics [...]
Watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show on CBS the Wednesday before last confirmed the following stereotypes:
1. Models are stupid.
2. Models, rather than having astoundingly sexy bodies, barely have bodies at all. They really are just coathangers.
3. The uniformity of the models’ bodies makes watching a lot of them in succession merely banal—the nudity, [...]
So just now on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock said something like “That’s it. It’s postmodern.” And Shake replied, “Yeah, definitely from the village.” Did we just get referenced? Is my life complete—have I made it to Cartoon Network . . . without leaving my bedroom?
On the corner of the cardboard insert that comes with batteries was a little cartoon and a caption reading, “Cat in the Hat / See the movie!” Prior to its release this movie has already received high profile promotion on numerous entertainment channels, hosted shows, and television commercials, in movie theaters though trailers, posters, [...]
I was lucky enough to hear the commentary this morning by NPR’s Scott Simon on Morning Edition Saturday berating blogs as “bad literature.”
To borrow a phrase from fellow bloggers, “Well, duh!”
First of all, this has been a problem not merely since the beginning of the World Wide Web; the problem of the proliferation of [...]
President Bush says we have to “stay the course” in Iraq.
What I want to know is this:
What course?
Frederick Taylor got his stop-watch handy? In tripping around the world in 80 Days or through the human body in 16 seconds, the motto is minimize to maximize.