December 2009
8 posts
Robert Walser
Just started reading his Selected Stories. This is a GREAT opening line: “I am thrilled to be writing a report on such a delicate subject as trousers.”
Avatar
Nearly everything I’ve heard about Avatar had this structure: “Well the dialogue and plotting and nature-worship can be a little silly, but it is such a brain-scramble-utionizing experience that I will call it the best movie of the last ten years.” I saw is this afternoon, and for the sake of argument I would like to reverse that formula:
Avatar is a really spectacular looking...
Zizek isn’t nearly as bad a writer as people say he is. Also it seems like leftists are going to realize that the extent to which they’re unsatisfied with Obama is just the extent to which they’re unsatisfied with American liberalism as such. Nobody before him (at least in the last few decades) has instantiated what today’s liberalism is so clearly.
also sorry
That song is called “Get On Your Knees.”
Here is the album cover:
Lots of pop songs are about heartbreak, but very...
Taylor Swift
So about this Salon article, Taylor Swift and feminism, etc. etc.
Harding spends a lot of time weighing the pro-feminist message of Swifty’s career against the anti-feminist message of the lyrical content of her songs. This would be fine except that the lyrical content of her songs isn’t actually anti-feminist.
The message of “Fifteen” isn’t, as Sady Doyle writes,...
