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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Does Aussie-Kiwi Humor Ever Get Old?
I don’t think so.
Rolling Stones, “Far Away Eyes”
Didn’t know there were still Stones videos that I hadn’t seen, so was happy to stumble across this one. By the late seventies they’d certainly managed the trick of putting things over with a wink and a yawn. You get … Continue reading
Teju Cole on Kony 2012, Invisible Children, “White Savior Industrial Complex”
There’s been a lot of words produced over the Kony 2012 video. This essay includes some of the most trenchant I’ve read. And I also write all this as a novelist and story-writer: I am sensitive to the power of … Continue reading
Mad Men and Race
Insightful article by Tanner Colby about how Mad Men deals with race. Read the whole thing here. Excerpt below: Mad Men is a show about lies, the lies we tell about who we are and what our country is, and … Continue reading
David Brooks and “The Fog of Peace”: About As Wrong As You Can Be
I recently stumbled across this column written by David Brooks (now with The New York Times) in the run-up to the Iraq War. Brooks accuses opponents of the Bush Administration policy of a lack of seriousness and a failure to … Continue reading
Johnny “Guitar” Watson, “Mister Magic”
Great song and video, made greater by the impeccable fashion.
