Search results

yeah tim definitely raised the bar doubt that i have anything essential to add so i guess my concern is to figure out the areas of disagreement (1) music versus culture versus pop image i realize that k-punk detests phenomenology as willfully naive -- and i suspect that i'm about to put the...

a particularly good read is this ny times magazine article which treats the ravelstein episode -- http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000416mag-ravelstein.html again, looks like ny times has made available on the internet everything they ever published pertaining to saul bellow --...

just read the obituary -- now starting to investigate other stuff that ny times has on-line about bellow -- looks like it's definitely worth checking out, i.e., contemporaenous reviews of all his major works in ny times, plus interviews w/ bellow from different periods in his life, etc so...

i rate the victim very highly -- and it's a quick read let me (and others) know what you think once you've read it has to do w/ the psychology of guilt -- guilt b/c someone whom you've wronged has subsequently lost control of his life -- was your wronging of him the efficient cause of his...

i'm perhaps over-generalizing a kind of morality informs critical thinking = intellectual probity and there's a heroic morality that informs art, errrr, perhaps, maybe, probably not and there's everyday common decency -- but that's not really morality, is it? for the most part very few of...

i heartily agree i agree temptation scene in the garden -- w/ serpent demonic figure appears several times thunderstorm & earthquake at end plus supernatural endurance while being whipped let's just say that i prefer your reading of the film over the film that i actually saw and...

of course no one is going to lament the passing of "the bloated, maxed-out US/Western consumer" even so it's staggering the contempt that US elites have for their fellow citizens yeah we all hate americans, i.e., not only do americans based in nyc and sf hate the rest of america = the...

(1) student loans already survive bankruptcy anyway -- if we want to portray young professionals as struggling debtors -- they're not the most sympathetic political class -- but who knows, maybe yuppies mired in debt will lead the country leftward (2) but seriously, there will be no going...

okay i'll be quiet now

actually i take that back -- they've done several really good cover stories -- and w/ more political bite than stuff that village voice does, i.e., controversial pieces, not affirmation of received opinion and i do like a lot of zaitchik's stuff, and i don't say that merely out of loyalty and...

i hope nobody thinks that i'd ever put taibbi in anywhere near the same class as k-punk i mean only that the sentiments that inform k-punk's highly developed critical position are also present in taibbi's gutter sniping -- and whereas i admire, if not always agree, w/ k-punk, i do feel...

and having given you the certified satanist alan cabal, i now give you the bill donohue of the catholic league -- March 3, 2005 NEW YORK PRESS JOKES ABOUT POPE’S DEATH On the cover of the March 2-8 edition of the New York Press, a free New York weekly, there is a picture of Pope John Paul...

and here's the press release that Rep. Weiner's staff put out -- which Koyen, for his own purposes, portrayed as an assault on ny press' first amendment rights -- but the release is in fact the double-speak of a professional politician, not a clear call for trashing copies of the ny press March...

and for an opposing view of the matter, there's this from alan cabal, who resigned in disgust that the "52 Reasons" list got published in the first place . . . . (i should perhaps mention that alex zaitchik, mentioned below, is a good friend of mine from college and the acting editor now that...

i think the whole entire episode is the most hilarious thing to happen in quite some time too bad i was too lost in my own little world to take notice as it was actually happening but yeah i've talked to these characters at cheap wine and cheese parties, halfway off their rockers, completely...

and here's what new york politicians had to say about the piece -- Sen. Chuck Schumer: "This is the most disgusting thing I've seen in 30 years of public life." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "Pope John Paul is one of the world's strongest forces for peace and understanding at a time when...

good gosh i just now learned that there was a huge controversy over this piece on the pope, such that the editor of the ny press -- jeff koyen -- ended up resigning rather than accept a 2-week suspension now the ny press is often intentionally low brow, they employ gutter snipe tactics, etc...

should add that a couple months ago i finally saw "the passion of christ" . . . . still disagree w/ k-punk on this one! very little to recommend this film, in my judgment -- and not b/c i thought it particularly anti-semetic, merely of low artistic quality and filled w/ superstition rather...

b/c i disagreed w/ k-punk's politically aggressive criticism of the catholic church last fall and b/c i took the position that catholic church is (i) aesthetically superior to protestantism, (ii) a complex institution able to accommodate the needs of many kinds of people (and so not as...

think you guys may find amusing the way this ny press writer matt taibbi ridicules the pope and the media coverage of the pope in this piece, published earlier this month (wait it's already april, this was in early march) btw k-punk and woebot *briefly* reviewed music for ny press a couple...