On HU
Featured Archive Post: Me on whether you have a right to privacy.
We finished up our Bloom County Rountable with posts by:
—my 10 year old with Bloom Couty fan art
—the commentariat weighing in on the most underrated and overrated comics strips
—Shaenon Garrity on Bloom County and the Simpsons.
—Jason Thompson on reading Bloom County then and now.
—Jacob Canfield on what he learned from Bloom County.
Roy T. Cook on transforming into hypersexual superheroines.
Chris Gavaler on the Confederate superheroes of America.
Utilitarians Everywhere
I was on HuffPost Live talking about Michael B. Jordan’s casting as Johnny Storm. Other guests ere Conseula Francis, Julian Chambliss, and W. Kamau Bell.
At Salon:
— I listed 18 songs about alien invasion
—I talked about the gender imbalance in literary reviews and what that has to do with romance novels.
—I argued that the Dead Poets Society is kind of fascist. As well as being a vomitous pile of bilge.
— I explained the one secret of writing success.
At Splice Today I wrote about:
—the Duke freshman who works in porn and feminist arguments about empowerment.
—the Flying Lizards great New Wave pop novelty high art weirdness 1980 self-titled album.
Other Links
Alyssa Rosenberg on Lupita Nyong’o, beauty standards, and blackness.
I happened to read this post by Wendy Lyon on the Nordic model of prostitution and how there’s little evidence it reduces violence.
Russ Smith wishes the newspaper editorial would die already.
Richard Cooper on twitter feminism.
Dood. Noah, you look nothing like how I pictured you!
Yep. My visage regularly knocks small birds from the sky.
Usually I wear a bag over my head, but the Huffpost wouldn’t let me.
The Huff Post Live dude totally seems like he could not give less of a shit about the topic, but it’s his job, so he’s trying hard to seem like maybe gives a little bit of shit – and failing.
I love the Flying Lizards’ great quasi-cover of Michael Nyman’s Bird List Song. That’s pretty much the only song of theirs I’ve managed to get into so far but it’s good enough that I keep going back to their other stuff to see if I like it more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuPP55mxXw
That’s television.
That “one secret” link doesn’t work — and I so wanted to know the secret.
Whoops! Sorry; works now. The secret will surprise you!
Buy low, sell high
Ever heard Flying Lizards’ cover of James Brown’s ‘Sex Machine’?
Better than an ice-cold shower when your hormones are rampaging.