The Message is the T-Shirt
To me, the only wrong place to wear a political t-shirt is church.
Archive for March 2010
Cat’s Eye
March 12, 2010
Oh, Margaret Atwood, how could you have known – approximately 20 years before the advent of Facebook – that there would one day be a place where ordinary people eagerly test their hypotheses about long-lost friends and acquaintances?
Human Trafficking, Craigslist, and Kijiji
March 12, 2010
“Using Craigslist is like buying a coach class ticket on the upper deck of a slave ship,” I think I yelled.
Notes on a Scandal
March 10, 2010
From New Statesman: Notes on a Scandal. Clark made it possible for a chap in a pub to appreciate Francis Bacon, and Reich-Ranicki for a hausfrau to persuade her neighbour in the butcher’s queue that Günter Grass was a more important writer than Hermann Hesse. Kenneth Tynan and Pauline Kael added repertoire tips and quality [...]
Reading in a Digital Age
March 9, 2010
From The American Scholar: Sven Birkerts on Reading in a Digital Age. I ask my students about their reading habits, and though I’m not surprised to find that few read newspapers or print magazines, many check in with online news sources, aggregate sites, incessantly. They are seldom away from their screens for long, but that’s [...]
I Was a Teenage Illiterate
March 8, 2010
From the New York Times: I Was a Teenage Illiterate. At the age of 26, when I returned to New York after an inglorious stab at graduate work in medieval history on the frozen steppes of Chicago, I had a horrifying realization: I was illiterate. At least, I was as close to illiterate as a [...]
Analyzing Up In the Air
March 5, 2010
Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify the film as a tragedy, even with some great laughs.
Art Meets Town
March 5, 2010
The Williamston Theatre founders are big-pond tested Midwesterners who love the small-town way of life, and believe that art can be a thread in the greater fabric of a community.