Y’all know it’s been a summer of leaks – spilling, seeping, oozing, and containment is a strategy that no longer works. Oh, and let’s not forget the twitching masses. The bits of slam poetry I encountered these days were structured entirely around the mode of “how things used to be different.” Is that really enough?
Well on our way towards the permanent middlebrow, which means that I’m in a quandary whether I should curb my disdain for the Wall Street Journal if Toril Moi is allowed to discuss Don Draper over there.
I’m beginning to think that my obsessive interests in the meedjuh and the weather are intricately related. Both can be understood on much the same terms. On the subject of yoking, two terms that are uglier and not as great as anyone thinks they are: open-source and peer review. But nothing beats German. Its discursive flexibility was again in full force when these two words started circulating: entfluchtbar and Brustquetschung.
And, in a strange sense of decorum, the New York Times online version of the article on the disappearance of the sphinxes among contemporary celebrities leaves out Bill Cunningham’s candid shot of Greta Garbo that was included in the print edition. But not all was gloom, doom, or prospective visits to the oncologist. Life’s little pleasures:
It pleases me a little that at the moment anyone feeling lucky with my key terms gets a massive PDF on the SERP. Still, I will have to work on my brand. [And I can’t believe I said that either!]
It pleases me a lot that I know someone who is a master of the severe word and the correct knowledge as well.
It pleases me to no end that we are still split right down the middle. After the first weekend opening, the debate around Inception raged on the Entertainment Weekly website. EW asked in their poll: “at the end of 'Inception,' Cobb was: …” Back then, 51% of participants chose “Awake” and 49% “Dreaming.” Four weeks later the results are now reversed and currently stand at “Awake 49%” and “Dreaming 51%.” Walk the center line with more evidence that we will all be members of the Bipartisan Party soon.
By reading this post, you deny its existence and imply consent.
Outbound references:
For a sexual/textual politics scholar joining the Street:
http://www.torilmoi.com/latest/blogging-on-mad-men-for-the-wall-street-journal/
For the Entertainment Weekly inception poll:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/17/‘inception-ending/
For the Times on sphinxes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/fashion/18mystery.html
For consent and deny:
http://supersadtruelovestory.com/
2010-08-08
a brand apart.
at 18:33
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Living + learning -- I didn't know Toril Moi was writing on Mad Men @ the WSJ. A Bipartisan world, indeed...
Regarding which: attention was not paid last night, as I walked into a local bookstore looking for SSTLS (which they didn't have), woefully unaware that at that very moment, GS himself was less than a mile away, giving a reading at another local venue. Apparently, I'm so not media. At least not last night. [Hauled away instead The Fire Next Time (1st ed, as seen on the twitternetz), Prater's bio of Thomas Mann, and the unfinished Stendhal novel, Lucien Leuwen -- which is sufficient old-timey flava to tank my scores for the next week, I imagine...]
[Die Freude, übrigens, ist ganz meinerseits.]
If not Media, then you are so Retail this week! GS I'm sure would appreciate. [Und im übrigen diesbezüglich: habe die Ehre, gnä' Frau, falls ich das zu erwähnen versäumt hatte! *augenzwinker*]
;-), as always, zurück!
[Und wenn's noch nicht sonnenklar ist, sag ich es ausdrücklich: I deny this post's existence and imply consent]
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