January 2011
“So our liberal Tumblr users feel self-satisfied because they are keeping up with...”
– Alex Pareene, “America’s narcissism taints Egypt coverage” (Salon)
“Michaelangelo Matos: Like watching a 26-year-old getting Botox.
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– Avril Lavigne, “What the Hell” [5.85] (The Singles Jukebox)
“In any case, the “sweary run-on sentences, stream of consciousness rants, and...”
– (via)
Key words in this post: “male-identified.” When women write about themselves in popcrit, do people complain nearly so much? Serious question.
Exist Yesterday.: Random thoughts with the radio... →
jonathanbogart:
Could a comparison profitably be made between Jay-Z and John Updike? I’m thinking of David Foster Wallace’s essay on Updike in Consider the Lobster, how he had become a better critic than fiction writer as he aged and his fiction fossilized into predictable patterns, and on how much better Jay seems to be at explaining rap lyrics (Decoded) than in writing new ones these days....
