Archive for 'popular.culture'
Overblown prose for the ages
Overblown prose often springs up exactly where you would expect to find it. But shouldn’t this extraordinary opening by Peter Hartlaub to his review of Grand Theft Auto IV in the San Francisco Chronicle get some sort of award?
Cultural revolution often comes from seemingly imperfect people and unpopular places.
The most influential athlete was labeled [...]
Posted: May 1st, 2008 under art and illustration, popular.culture, writing.
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Is our journalists educated?
This is pretty awesome. When Hillary challenged Barack to a “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate, Fox TV’s national news ran the following graphic.
I guess they thought she said “Lincoln-Douglass.”
What a debate that must have been!
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via Wonkette
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An Economist Writes on LoveThe letter to the Financial Times went like this:
Dear Economist,
I’m looking for  Standards [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under journalism, popular.culture.
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The Writer’s Life … in Film
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The key to being a writer
Zachart Kanin in the New Yorker
.Royal Futura
Most discussion of type in film centers on anachronisms — how could characters in a movie set i…Ten Steps to Better WritingCopyblogger has posted a list of 10 steps to becoming a better writer. Here’s the link, but never [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2007 under film-video, popular.culture, writing.
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Plastic Woman
The face at left is my quick photoshop mashup of the current popular ideal, at least according to that segment of the population who want work done on their faces and bodies. Well, as long as the work is being done by Richard W. Fleming, M.D., and Toby G. Mayer, M.D., who do the poll.
The [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under art and illustration, popular.culture.
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