Moving blogs
Hey everyone, I’m moving my blog from here to here. This blog started to smell.
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Thanks bros. -Lindsay
Andy Samberg as tennis greats: Agassi, Sampras, Borg, McEnroe. Awesome.
At 20 I congratulated myself on my awareness of the subjectivity of aesthetic judgments, the arbitrariness of critical proclamations, the folly of received wisdom. I pored over the Deconstructionists and the French feminists and advocated, in complete seriousness, the overthrow of language. (Also, the patriarchy.) Then I went to law school and was forced to confront serious practical and ethical questions — Brown v. Board of Education, for instance, and Roe v. Wade — that managed not to be resolved by the insights of Derrida. Now, having entered and abandoned the practice of law and spent roughly a decade straddling legal publishing and the blogosphere, I’m increasingly drawn to directness, which precludes neither nuance nor irony. (For details, see the essays of Mark Twain, who believed that “plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”)
- Why people not as smart as DFW maybe shouldn’t ape DFW? Not that we’re all trying to. I think most people who write online probably try write the way that people talk. But overall, a pretty good argument for going to law school. None of the previous statements were whole sentences. I also realize I’m late to this story. I’m fucking dead today.
Follow Fast Company on tumblr?
I know I don’t update my tumblr, like, ever (although I religiously read my dashboard throughout the day), but I’ll be helping out from time to time with our new Fast Company tumblr. Because I work there now! News. We write about business and technology but mostly Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
cable would be nice
I like all of these, but I especially like this one.
For every “cat person” who has weirdly contended that cats are smarter than dogs for no reason
SCIENCE FACT (NY Post but whatevs)
I loved this and found it so fucking depressing
Rick Moody interviews an old friend, a writer, about working in a shoe store for twenty years.
Awesome, funny Fuck Marry Kill
Gandolfini is who people are thinking about when they talk shit about Buscemi as a leading man. Because Tony Soprano casts an immense shadow, on TV and beyond. That character gifted equal parts dad stuff and Big Sex Bastard stuff to any woman who grew up under his influence, and he’s also, without a doubt, with a single role, the pre-Moreau Brando of our generation, and I love him. I love him so much. He and Frances McDormand, speaking of Fargo again, are my favorite actors of the current moment (oh, and Phylicia Rashad). And because we live in an age where our stars are 25 and Willow Smith, I think they’re our defacto “America’s Parents,” whereas back in the day they’d just be called, like, Shelley Duvall and Jack Nicholson.
- Julie Klausner (do the whole thing)
