February 2010
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10 Literary Classics That Should Be Videogames →
10 or so classics that might provide inspiration for turning the novel into digital crack.
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Grizzling about Facebook →
“‘The modern world fosters a childlike personality, a person who constantly seeks and needs approval. … Aimless, over-reactive, inconsistent, face aching at the end of the day from the ever-present and required smile, the marketing persona is of a piece with the modern world. (Wander in Lefebvre xiv)’ At least one thing to be said for Facebook and other mobile socializing modes...
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Best Dali Painting Title Ever... →
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pommegranate One Minute Before Awakening (1944)
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Homophobic Orson Scott Card to write comic... →
Queersupe reports that IDW Publishing and EA Comics, tap outspoken Mormon Orson Scott Card to write a comic version of the very gay-friendly Dragon Age: Origins RPG from Bioware. Strange choice considering that Card is also an outspoken homophobe and bigot.
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Luc Tuymans SFMOMA →
If you didn’t see the Luc Tuymans retrospective when it was at the Wexner Center (Best Bookstore of Any Museum Hands Down!) in Columbus last autumn, it’s opening at SFMOMA. Tyler Green says that In the NYT, Dorothy Spears profiles Luc Tuymans and in so doing reminds us that the adverb “cooly” and back-story are always present when discussing Tuymans’ work. Any body...
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David Sedaris: The Unquiet American →
The satirist David Sedaris has sold millions of books, been nominated for Grammys and filled Carnegie Hall but lives a low-profile life in London
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Video Using Riefenstahl Footage Is Withdrawn from... →
“The organizers of the Vancouver Games withdrew an official video for their Olympic torch relay after the Canadian Jewish Congress and others questioned its use of footage from ‘Olympia,’ Leni Riefenstahl’s film of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.”
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Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet →
“A funny thing happened after Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military: A curious silence befell much of the right. If this were a Sherlock Holmes story, it would be the case of the attack dogs that did not bark.”
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Jocko Homo - Devo
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