archives for Wednesday 22 October 2008

highbrow/lowbrow/hotbrow

Wednesday 22 October 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

This Newsweek article has salient points to make, especially weighed against the recent tidal resurgence of “Pro-American!” anti-intellectualism….but who cares, really, when OMG BISEXUAL LEONARD BERNSTEIN YOU ARE SO HOT.

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benefit of the doubt

Wednesday 22 October 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

So, okay, I really want to get next to this. I mean, smarter people than I am must’ve made the decision. And Mr. Wood has proven himself capable in many other ways. But I’m just…I’m just struggling, a little, here. Because how is this going to work, wherein a HOBBIT PLAYS A DIONYSIAN ROCK GOD??? [...]

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alcestis on the poetry circuit

Wednesday 22 October 2008 | I like a cookie

Because? Because, because I just caught myself grimly vacuuming and dusting, with this on in the background, thinking fiercely, as I have been ever since his twenty-eighth birthday earlier this month, about whether to contact the Young Monk, after three years, be the bigger man and bury the hatchet and generously enact forgiveness and visualize [...]

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