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I hate even to link to this, because it’s so embarrassing, just a national shanda. But there it is: the president of the University of California willingly trivialized by Deborah Solomon when his press is uniformly terrible and he (and we) are teetering on a cliff.
Archive for the ‘Popular Culture’ Category
September 25th, 2009
July 29th, 2009
Category: Popular Culture
Shatner is more popular than ever because he no longer takes himself so seriously.
July 13th, 2009
Sir Jonathan Sacks pens an empty Jeremiad about moral decline in Britain.
July 7th, 2009
Category: Popular Culture
Michael Jackson was buried today in a gaudy, 14-carat gold casket. I cannot imagine a better metaphor for the empty rewards that celebrity brought him.
February 22nd, 2009
III. Garments …
C. Modern era…
4. Pockets (denial of)
In the middle of a long thread on a writers’ list-serv, provoked by my post on fashion models, it occurred to me that one of the unrecognized ways women are kept dependent and threatened is simply denying them pockets. This is more important than one might think, right [...]
February 20th, 2009
The rich choice of better titles than “czar”.
February 19th, 2009
Fashion week in New York! The latest and greatest: runways! Really important now looks, garments that make irrefutable forward statements! Gossip – designers up and designers down, business bad, ars longa, deals brevis! And models! Beautiful, lithe young women, ideals for starry-eyed teens, radiating confidence, health and … wait a minute.
I thought [...]
July 21st, 2008
Category: Popular Culture
It’s not like the world needs one more comment on The Dark Knight, but…here goes. Note–this post is full of spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Fundamentally, this is a movie about terrorism, but terrorism stripped of all of its ideological attachments and reduced simply down to its method, which is to use shock and fear [...]
