Archive for 'popular.culture'
Inigo Jones FTW
Back in the Jacobean period, the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare was seeming a bit old-fashioned to the lord and ladies in the expensive seats. They wanted a little pomp and spectacle — well, a lot of pomp and spectacle actually — and they got it in the form of the court masque. The masques were [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2010 under popular.culture.
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Temporarily like Achilles
I’ve been reading about Bob Dylan’s recent scrape with the law in Long Branch, New Jersey, where being a complete unknown appears to be illegal. Trying to reconstruct the sequence of events, I figure it happened something like this.
Posted: August 17th, 2009 under popular.culture.
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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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Posted: April 30th, 2008 under journalism, popular.culture.
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The Writer’s Life … in Film
Posted: May 27th, 2007 under film-video, popular.culture, writing.
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