October 2009
9 posts
New music from Air. Yay!
“Sing Sang...
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books: the blook problem
An incredibly frustrating trend in publishing in the last few years is blogs that become books. As someone working in the book publishing industry I understand the expectation and inevitable letdown.
The idea behind making a blog into a book is that it’s a sellable item. When a blog becomes absurdly popular (see: Stuff White People Like, F.U. Penguin, I Can Has Cheezburger, etc) the...
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Ok, People, Look!
The magazine industry is undoubtedly struggling. Major titles are folding left and right, freelancers haven’t been paid in months and Conde Nast just may force the Vogue-ettes to settle for less than four star service when they visit Paris for the couture shows (the horror!). People are claiming that the power of the publishing industry has faded so much that paper copies of Elle or Rolling...
books: in defense of dan brown
There are few writers that are as controversial as Dan Brown. I’m not referring to the content of his books (though they’re quite incendiary, particularly when it comes to religious zealots). No, I’m referring to the quality of his writing. Critics and pretentious humanities majors everywhere constantly describe his books as poorly written, sloppy thrillers. His plots are...
Played a minimum of three times at cafe charbon...
weird food
I was pretty sure that in college I had seen the weirdest “eating food in class” scenario when an epic English major (in both personality and proportion) pulled a large sized plastic take out container full of seasoned ground beef from her backpack and proceeded to eat it with a fork throughout our two hour seminar on Protestant Reformation Literature.
She was upstaged tonight by the...
“If this rap demo doesn’t work then we’ll both go to law school.”
– Jimmy Brooks (aka rapper Drake) to Ashley on Degrassi, speaking words of career wisdom to confused Canadian teens.
someone should create an art show called “F Stop” that’s all photographs of a subway. Or maybe a magazine named that, but my guess is it might be rather limiting in terms of content.
