In the last few days I have seriously thought about giving up blogging. Or let me rephrase that, I have thought about giving up blogging in the traditional sense; or how I have been blogging. I don’t mean I will stop writing online. I plan to continue to publish news, reviews, and interviews over at [...]
Interesting post by Michael over at Two Blowhards on the intolerance of many in the art world. His inspiration is a book on Karl Popper by Frederic Raphael but he has some intelligent insights himself. I particularly like this paragraph: Quarrelling with the main tenets of the arts world doesn’t make you what you’d imagine [...]
Caterina.net on reading Crime and Punishment: Occasionally I make myself read books that are the literary equivalent of wheat germ — over Christmas I made myself read Crime and Punishment. It was an uphill battle, I kept wanting to drop it, and did several times. I couldn’t stand it. The characters weren’t actually characters, they [...]
I have mostly recovered from a rather traumatic college football bowl season in which I went 14-14 and my favorite team got roughed up. An interesting question (IMHO) has been rattling around in my brain for the last week and I thought I would toss it out to the readers here. Would you rather your [...]