February 2010
1 post
What if Salinger had died at the Updikean age of 75.8, like the average American man? What if Salinger had died in 1995 and his works that will be published over the course of the next three years had actually appeared before The Royal Tenenbaums and Garden State and the early ’00s acid rain of improbably-eccentric/impossibly-cool specters of fictional youth turned everyone sour on...
December 2009
1 post
October 2009
1 post
The "Sensations" Exhibition at Ten: An Essay About...
This review of collector Charles Saatchi’s cheekily-titled My Name Is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic in More Intelligent Life led me to discover that it is now ten years to the month since Saatchi’s Sensation exhibition, which Saatchi apparently surmises to be the most lavish success of his career, opened in the Brooklyn Museum. If you’ll remember, this was the show...
September 2009
3 posts
Airplane Dance Number Day! →
The chyrons on the nightly news will read “Dance Of Death Flight” because no one at the studio could agree on what the chyrons should read so someone just typed something and shouted, “No more arguing!”
August 2009
4 posts
“A cartoon of modern life as lived by a retarded otter, an alcoholic tiger, and...”
– the quantcast profile description of achewood.
Laguna Art Museum Celebrates World of Warcraft →
“When Blink plays, there’s no difference between that and everyone getting a...”
– Blink-182’s Tom Delonge, in this issue of RS.
July 2009
8 posts
June 2009
2 posts
Björn from ABBA: There's probably no God →
This is as good a way to start a blog as any.