March 2010
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Hello to All This?
“Mere days into the school year, my floor counselor, an elder statesman in his senior year, knocked on my door and gave me a stapled Xerox of the Joan Didion essay ‘Goodbye to All That.’ The flattery of being singled out for such a gift is what made me read it immediately, with little comprehension. ‘All I could do during those [first] three days was talk long-distance...
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“Procopius—no connection with the famous Parisian Café Procope—was recognized as the remote ancestor of another variety of early-modern blogger, the ‘nouvelliste.’ Gossip mongers who worked oral circuits of communication were known as ‘nouvellistes de bouche.’ When they reduced news to written anecdotes and strung the anecdotes together in manuscript...
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I have just returned from Bruhdway, and I have learned this: All About Me was genetically engineered to be show queen catnip. (Or rather it was likely conjured out of the ground bones of David Merrick, the dandruff of Stephen Sondheim and a discarded pair of Angela Lansbury’s spanx in some dark alchemical rite.) If you have a hankering to see Michael Feinstein’s Paul Lynde...
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It appears that Bravo has optioned Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s boozy drag memoir I Am Not Myself These Days for their slate of new programs. However, the teevee version veers ever-so-slightly from its source material. See if you can spot the difference.
About the book: “I Am Not Myself These Days is Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s outrageously intimate memoir of a young man living a double...
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I think I’m ready to address that TCG article by John McWhorter on adapting of Shakespeare for modern audiences. So, TL;DR/scroll-by caveats are in effect, otherwise here we go. I guess the easiest answer to “It’s been 400-plus years. Is it time to translate the Bard into understandable English?” is “We haven’t thus far, so why start now?” But that is...
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Miscellaneous Quotage
On discussing a lady acquaintance, whose relationship with her long term, live-in boyfriend could be construed from the outside as vaguely Stockholm Syndrome-y: “She’s like Patty Hearst in a two-bedroom closet.”
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Florida is like a twenty-four hour hidden camera show, and the joke is on the rest of the country. “As authorities nationwide warn motorists of the dangers of driving while texting, Florida Keys law enforcement officers add a new caution: Don’t try to shave your privates, either.”
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'It's been 400-plus years. Is it time to translate... →
You should believe I have some thoughts on this! (Scroll-by, TL;DR forewarning.) However, I will resist the urge let loose a torrent of words until I’ve read it a few more times.
Update: Here are those thoughts. The torrent has been unleashed.
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'Question Your Tea Spoons'
I was at the ICP this weekend to see Twilight Visions, but I also spent some time with the Miroslav Tichý exhibition. He is a Czech photographer/flâneur, and that idea, the going out and capturing these everyday images which when viewed later are not so commonplace after all, is a method which produces some of my favorite art. (I seem drawn to work—no matter what medium—with an...
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