Podcast: Mike and Ivan’s Comics Cabaret
All is silence
Here’s a picture from my trip to the Art Institute of Chicago last month.
It’s Le silence, by Auguste Preault. You can click through it for more information. If I ever publish a book, that’d make for a good cover.
I’m just finishing up some revisions on the short story that that trip inspired. Put a dollar (or more) in the tip jar (that donation button on the right side of the page) and I’ll send you a PDF of it.
Podcast: Visible Cities
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 8 – Visible Cities
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“My impulse is to break the windows of Starbucks, but I’d get arrested if I did that, so I make comics about people breaking the windows of Starbucks.”
Cartoonist and MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship winner Ben Katchor joins us for the first live episode of The Virtual Memories Show (in conjunction with the New York Comics & Picture-stories Symposium). Ben & host Gil Roth talk in front of — and take questions from — an audience of 50 or so about Ben’s career in cartooning, including his new book, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories (Pantheon), which collects his monthly comic page from Metropolis magazine. During the episode, Ben even performs several of his comics. If you’d like to see the comics themselves, you can download Manumission Houses and Lossless Things.
“People ask about influences and where I get my ideas. A lot of people looked at all the stuff I looked at, and they’re doing something else. It’s not like there’s an equation, like you read Saul Bellow and you look at Poussin, and then you make my comics. It’s not an equation. It’s brute force.”
The conversation and Q&A also cover his work process (with a surprising revelation about how he draws!), how book publishing lost its identity, what he learned from working in other art forms (like musical theater), how he teaches cartooning, the allure of new technologies, his one critical audience demographic, the joy of imperfections, whether he has an ideal era for New York, what happened to his History of the Dairy Restaurant book, how fear of shame keeps him productive, how Google can help when you need to draw a Russian prostitute, what he picked up from the Yiddish humor strips he read as a child, which one book the Library of America should withdraw, and how to pronounce “Knipl”! He didn’t win a “Genius” grant for nothing!
“It’s a golden age of art comics. It didn’t exist when I started. Most bookstores wouldn’t carry a comic, or even something that looked like a comic, back then. I can’t imagine what it must be like for a young cartoonist now, when these things are taken seriously and there’s an audience for them.”
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About our Guest
Ben Katchor’s picture-stories appear in Metropolis magazine. His most recent collection of monthly strips, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories
Credits: This episode’s music is Big City Blues by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. The conversation was recorded in the Bark Room at The New School in NYC on a pair of AT2020 mics
Podcast: Not the camera but the eye
Virtual Memories – season 2 episode 16
Kyle Cassidy: Not the camera but the eye
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It’s time for the last Virtual Memories Show podcast of the year! This time around, we interview Kyle Cassidy, an amazing photographer based in west Philadelphia.
As he puts it in his bio, “Kyle Cassidy has been documenting American culture since the 1990’s. He has photographed Goths, Punks, Cutters, Politicians, Metalheads, Dominatrices, Scholars, and Alternative Fashion, in addition to less prosaic subjects. In recent years his projects have extended abroad to Romania, where he captured the lives of homeless orphans living in sewers; and to Egypt, where he reported on contemporary archaeological excavations.”
Kyle’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair (DE), the Sunday Times of London, Marie Claire, Photographers Forum, Asleep by Dawn, Gothic Beauty and a ton of other publications. He recently published War Paint: Tattoo Culture & the Armed Forces
“Guns are a huge part of many people’s lives, and have been from the beginning. I think it’s going to be very difficult for someone to convince lots of Americans that this is something they need to stop.”
Trust me: the conversation moves on to lighter topics after that, including how he discovered his next big project, Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces. We also talk about roller derby, fan cultures, the breakdown of discourse, how he got started in photojournalism, his most hated digital photography tricks, and whether he owns a gun, among other topics.
There are a lot more bad pictures out there, but there are a lot more good pictures out there, and there are a lot more things being covered that weren’t covered before. It’s a very good thing.
(Also, you may notice a certain vibrating noise that rises and falls during the show. That would be the purring of Kyle’s cat, Roswell, who joined us for several stretches of the episode. She also horked up something like a hairball at one point. I found it difficult not to break out laughing when she crawled into Kyle’s wife’s microphone box to watch us.)
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As I wrote at the top, this is the last episode of 2012. I’ve got some good guests planned for next year, and I’m hoping to get the show up to a reliable twice-monthly schedule. Thanks for supporting the show, and drop me a line if you have any suggestions for guests or topics you’d like to see me cover.
Credits: This episode’s music is Gun by The Golden Palominos. I recorded the intro on a Blue Yeti mic into Audacity, and the conversation was recorded in Mr. Cassidy’s home in Philadelphia, on a pair of AT2020 mics, feeding into a Zoom H4N recorder. All editing and processing was done in Garage Band. Photo courtesy of Valya Dudycz Lupescu.
Podcast: Classical Pop
Virtual Memories – season 2 episode 14 – Classical Pop
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It’s time for a (somewhat) long-delayed new episode of The Virtual Memories Show!
“Picasso said that the way you draw your circle is your style.”
This time, postmodern cartoonist Bob Sikoryak talks about the high/low mashups of his amazing book, Masterpiece Comics
“It’s amazing to me how comics artists can speak to a generation, and that’s it. When you make something, it’s of your time, no matter what you do.”
We also reflect on the art of mimicry, the history of popular art, and who decides when it’s too soon to goof on Dostoevsky. I’ve been a fan of his work since I first read his Inferno Joe strip in 1989, so getting the chance to sit down with Bob for a conversation was a joy. (He’s the sweetest person I’ve met in comics.)
“My roommate in college said, “If you keep reading those comics, it’s gonna affect your style,” and clearly he was right.”
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Photo by Kriota Willberg.
About Our Guest
R. Sikoryak has drawn cartoons for numerous media giants, including Nickelodeon Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as for independent publications, films and theater productions. His cartoon slideshow series Carousel has been presented around the U.S. and Canada. He also teaches and lectures on comics and illustration. He lives in NYC with his wife and frequent collaborator Kriota Willberg.
About Our Sponsor
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The Virtual Memories Show is on iTunes! If you’d like to subscribe, visit our iTunes page!
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Credits: This episode’s music is Ambicion Eterna by Thievery Corporation. I recorded the intro on a Blue Yeti mic into Audacity, and the conversation with was recorded in Mr. Sikoryak’s home in Stuy Town in NYC, on a pair of Blue Encore 100 mics, feeding into a Zoom H4N recorder. All editing was done in Garage Band, with some post-processing in Audaity.
Podcast: Manga-loids and Steampunks
Virtual Memories – season 2 episode 8
Diana Renn and Paul Di Filippo – Manga-loids and Steampunks
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The July episode of The Virtual Memories Show is ready to go! This time around, you get two interviews for the price of one!
During my June trip to Boston for the BIO annual meeting, I recorded conversations with Diana Renn, a writer who just published her first book, a YA novel called Tokyo Heist
I thought of posting them as two separate podcasts, but it made more sense to have the perspectives of the first-time novelist and the life-time writer in a single episode. Diana has lots to say about working through the novel-writing process and how her history with comic books informs her, while Paul has a ton to say about the current state of science fiction, how he carved out a role in it, what it’s like to be the “King of Steampunk,” the allure of Providence, RI, and whether he’d have taken an assignment for the Before Watchmen series.
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Credits: This episode’s music is Rewrite from Paul Simon’s recent record So Beautiful or So What? I recorded the intro on a Blue Yeti mic into Audacity, and the conversation with was recorded on a pair of Blue Encore 100 mics, feeding into a Zoom H4N recorder.
Unrequired Reading: Jewel Eye
It’s time for another month’s worth of my tweets from twitter! First the retweets (the ones that begin with RT) and then the marginally more original ones! Remember, you can get these regularly by following groth18!
In honor of July 4th, we’ll start off with a bang!
RT @felixsalmon (Felix Salmon):
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RT @radleybalko (Radley Balko) – Letter from Cory Maye
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RT @sharilynj – Read about @marcmaron‘s powerful keynote address, opening up this year’s #JustForLaughs #jfl
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RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle van Blerk) – A bear. Made out of 20,000 zip ties. As you do.
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RT @susanorlean (Susan Orlean) – Wonderful!! “@NewYorkTheater: Niagara Falls lit with colors of rainbow on 1st day of N.Y.’s Marriage Equality”
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RT @LettersOfNote – There’s so much to love about this photo of Jimi Hendrix
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RT FishbowlDC – Find out how the bridge of someone’s nose figures into The Atlantic‘s Megan McArdle’s (@asymmetricinfo) interviews.
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I don’t have kids, and that’s why I side with #GayTalese on dropping serious cash on clothes: #notthatIspendTHATmuch
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Because I don’t like kids, that’s why.
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Heartbreaking article about treating vs. screening #DownSyndrome
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Chinese govt. tries to disprove adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity: #weallcrashedthetrain
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The #JewishAutonomousRegion sounds like the Off-World Colonies in Bladerunner: #Jewsinspace
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A Bentley SUV? But what if the NBA lockout doesn’t end soon?
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I’m disappointed the Hercules machine isn’t on this list: #pinball (Hercules is over here)
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Beetlejuice in NJ, via @nycscout
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I thought #PillowTie was the best Skymall product ever, but it’s no match for #DribbleBib
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Oh, look! It’s the scariest goddamned thing ever! #dummyland #ventmyrage
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Oliver’s Army is here to stay: #andiwouldratherbeanywhereelsethanheretoday #cromwell
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Timmy, have you even been in a Norwegian prison?
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The Midgard Serpent sleeps below Park Ave.
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Just #FranLebowitz and her awesome car
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@SimonDoonan on getting married to Jonathan Adler.
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A “thoroughly generic bookstore” (as per my 40th bday post) is closing: #bookberries
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Euroleague’s greatest hoopster is from West Memphis. #MarcusBrown
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Freelove: sister of Increase, mother of Wealthy: #nydutch
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“I’m looking for something hipster-y“: http://nyr.kr/p5opGB
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Can you tell us more often in 1 article that there was no internet in 1981, please? #shittywriting #tigerwoods
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Set taser to #KTFO: #zotz
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The #StopMakingSense fashion collection: #thisisnotmybeautifulcoat (does @davidbyrne know about this?)
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To quote #Nirvana, I think I’m dumb.
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(Hilarious) summer fashion trends, courtesy of @simondoonan.
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Leopard goes ape: #donotconfrontangryleopard
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5 major factors in the #Borders collapse: #bookswithoutborders
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Speaking of: Proving that people surrounded by books can still be total retards: #bookswithoutborders
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Bob Colacello, whose #Warhol memoir Holy Terror I enjoyed the heck out of, auctioned off his portrait by AW.
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On escaping and not escaping #Auschwitz
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“Interview Your Own Damn Self!” the #Nabokov way: http://bit.ly/nrtMZQ
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Boy, #SeanBean sure does get killed a lot.
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Transocean: the “I didn’t do it” kid of the gulf oil disaster
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#WoodyAllen on Rilke, selling out Hannah & Her Sisters, and that new movie of his
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Lovely photos of writers & their dogs by #JillKrementz (no greyhounds, I notice)
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“Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database”: Why #Myspace went boom
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Why is weed wacky? #potluck
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M(ormon)BA: Mormons are the new Jews? #wedressbetter
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Does the mind rule the body, or does the body rule the Ren? #renandstimpy
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Holocaust theory: #saturdaynightreading
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Busch-basching: http://buswk.co/pJrg9k
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Peter O’Toole on being awesome. #doublephallicname
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Nothing harder than getting laughs from a room full of comedy writers: http://bit.ly/poW20I
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I miss Karen Allen, but I’m still glad I skipped that last #IndianaJones flick.
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A stoic and a zen buddhist walk into a bar…
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Neat profile of @MaerRoshan that i missed till now: #offmyradar #harhar
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#Hitchens, on the Gandhi myth
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Mob scene: #mafiaTV
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Psst! It’s a secret bookstore! #brazenhead
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Pad See Yew Later, Addiction! #ThaiRehab
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Writer procrastination: (I bought a super-cheap PC laptop and deleted everything but @ommwriter) #mustdisablewifi
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Final meal . . . Cajun-style! (via @wadecortez) http://bit.ly/rukM1M
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Signal-to-noise and old-cooterism, by @binarybits: onforb.es/nRWJTq
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Crisis in Swedish Ballet Training: #WhyILoveMonocle
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The next generation of painkillers will come in small nuggets that you heat up in a pipe and inhale. #drugdelivery
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I still think that #CCTV building’s gonna tip over
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I guess it’s a good thing Brooding Persian isn’t on Twitter. #associationsanddisassociations
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Hegemony from column B: http://bit.ly/ott95H #SinoTheTimes
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Chimpanzee that! He’s a photographer! #GoApe #monkeynews
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@SimonDoonan on the Cute & the Savage: #notanewsoapopera
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Sometimes the gorilla gets the banana, and sometimes the banana gets the gorilla. #GoApe
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Nowhere, special: #NoUtopiaWithoutToddRundgren
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Building the perfect #KingLear: #Shakespeare
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#WinstonGroom on #TrumanCapote: #getyourmindouttathegutter
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I just want to stay ahead of my illiterate dad: http://bit.ly/kuJPUt (okay, here are all the books I’ve read)
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Chess computers are using PEDs?
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High school time capsule, courtesy of #BourgeoisSurrdender
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In this particular instance, I’ll chose NOT to #belikeMike, thank you: http://bit.ly/iYSriE
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The accordion market gets squeezed: #bwahhaha
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John Lindsay: one suave mofo: #mayorofcool
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To end this month’s installment, I offer 1 Lap of Manhattan in 26 minutes (soundtrack set to Underworld, of course):
Unrequired Reading: May not
Just another honkin’ load of links, courtesy of my Twitter feed at twitter.com/groth18!
RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle VanBlerk): Awesome people hanging out together. Early contender for Tumblr of the day.
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RT @neilhimself (Neil Gaiman): Remembering Douglas Adams in the Guardian. So odd to realise I’m now older than Douglas, who was always older than me.
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RT @mattzollerseitz (Matthew Seitz): The 10 greatest sequels of all time. By MZS.
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RT @magiciansbook (Laura Miller): “An entire train station full of used books”
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RT @witoldr (Witold Rybczynski): The High Line succeeds in New York, but will it work as well elsewhere?
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RT @nerdist (Chris Hardwick): These Sci-Fi Ikea instructions are perhaps the best things ever formed with molecules: (via @CollegeHumor)
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RT @DwightGarner (Dwight Garner): I’m pulling for Clive James, who is fighting leukemia.
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Unfocused #RonRosenbaum column about #BobDylan (but still worth reading)
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Tappan Zee: bridge to the past.
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Will my forever stamps still be good if there’s no USPS?
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A lengthy review of #HaroldBloom’s career, masked as a review of his new book.
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Oy, with the brain-frying books! (Me, I’ll be Kindle-ing P&V’s translation of The Brothers K
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Apparently, the house DOESN’T always win: #blackjack #theotherdonjohnson
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@hoopspeak demolishing some #NBA myths.
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Shaq is 15 months younger than me, and he’s done. NBA makes you feel old. #nba #geriatrics
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I like to think @DeShawnStevens takes his personal tattoo artist everywhere, not just preseason parties. #gomavs!
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Chester Brown: A praying mantis with testicles. (C’mon world! Let’s make #prayingmantiswithtesticles trend!)
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Lidsville! (On the road, I have to order a med. from @dunkindonuts because the small coffee lid tends to leak. Grr.)
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#MartinAmis vs. the Dead Bores (I thought #LondonFields was fantastic (and gorgeously lyrical in its apocalypticism))
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“But why did you need to build 2 synagogues?” #JewsinAmerica
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I’ve found another #AnotherWoman fan! #openingshots #youmustchangeyourlife #WoodyAllen
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To Hull and Back: #ChristopherHitchens on #PhilipLarkin (with a side-trip to #Orwell)
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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” #techboom #howl
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“They called it show business, but it’s really showing-off business.” Awesome #BillWithers interview. #lovelyday
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Whatchoo got in that #BAG?
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Sorry, #MichaelJordan, but the stripes are not slimming. They are, however, giving me a headache.
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Bryan Ferry: Style Icon #bryanferry
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My pocket square, my self (with @simondoonan)
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@SeriousEats asks the serious question: In-N-Out vs. Shake Shack vs. Five Guys. #burgervsburger
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Rio Rancho and the Arena to Nowhere (sounds like a bad episode of @parksandrecnbc)
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Neat @LouisCK profile. #seasontwoinjune!
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Imelda Marcos, reincarnated as a man. #thatsalotofshoes
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You can get ugly, but make sure you don’t go full retard: #oscarbait #donthatemebecauseimbeautiful
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Art Books, part I: The Book Surgeon at work
Art Books, part II: @ChipKidd with Superman & Batman.
Art (Garfunkel) Books, part III: All the books I’ve read. #ArtGarfunkel
Art (of) Books(elling): 14 bookstores to see before you die. #Ivebeentofourofthem
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Treasure trove: SF writers on their favorite SF novels/writers
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fun recap of 13 roles by @mradamscott #partydown
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Sexy lady-spies of #Mossad
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Gandalf or Rick Rubin? #okayitsGandalf #thehobbit
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Guess what happens when you buy a piece of crap from H&M? #hm #crapiscrap
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Omar=Achilles? Brandon=Patroclus? Zowie! #TheWire #Iliad
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‘Twas architecture that killed the museum. #AFAM #bronzedKleenexbox
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Good night, sweet Tractor Traylor. #tractortraylor #nba #milwaukeecouldhavehadNowitzki
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Kane at 70: Labyrinth, Heart of Darkness, Everything. #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane
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Taking participatory journalism to its absurd conclusion. #LeeJudge #KCRoyals #beanball
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Nobody likes #Sbarro (especially in NJ)
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Great men’s grooming moments in movies (#SteveCarrell was only the runner-up? Boo…)
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The #DeathStar wasn’t a make-work project? #starwars
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#ChristopherHitchens has outlived #OsamaBinLaden: #thatisall
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#Shelfporn! (we have too many books for any of these configurations, but they remain awesome!)
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I really need to read The Leopard somedamntime, don’t I? #lampedusa (I read the Leopard a few weeks later, and it’s rapidly ascended to the top 5 of my favorite novels.)
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Pinball? Wizard!
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RT @nathanrabin (Nathan Rabin): Deep down I suspect that I’m incredibly lazy and toil ceaselessly so nobody ever finds out. Anyone else feel that way?
Unrequired Reading: April Link Showers
Bizarre! I was just settling in to collect my May Twitter-links for a big Unrequired Reading when I discovered that last month’s load o’ links never went live! So here’s all of April’s great stuff! I’ll post May’s tomorrow!
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It’s time for another month’s worth of Twitter links, dear readers! If you want to follow along, I’m at twitter.com/groth18!
First, the retweets:
RT @mookiewilson86 (paul raff): David Koresh had a better homestand than the Mets.
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RT @ESQStyle Esquire Style: And the best-dressed male guest at the #RoyalWedding is… not David Beckham.
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RT @felixsalmon (felix salmon): Wherein Martin Amis blathers on for 4,000 dutiful but unnecessary words about Christopher Hitchens.
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RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle van Blerk): Client request of the year.
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RT @simondoonan (Simon Doonan): Creative factory: Simon Doonan, My Faves!
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RT @GreatDismal (William Gibson): “WE HELPED YOUR GRANDAD GET LAID” #daytonbootsvancouver
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RT @mattzollerseitz (Matthew Zoller Seitz): “‘After Hours’ exists to prove that ‘Taxi Driver’ actually displayed some restraint. @notjustmovies
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RT @JPosnanski (Joe Posnanski): In honor of touching CNN story, I write a little more about Nick Charles and a moment I’ll never forget.
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RT @asymmetricinfo (Megan McArdle): Why Europe won’t develop as an independent military power
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RT @kottke (kottke.org): Hilarious fake TLC promo
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RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle van Blerk): Bored at work. Photoshopping Bieber’s head onto things.
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RT @questlove (?Love of The Roots): Man. Not even “OJ Guilt” is the proper colloquialism for what I feel after eatin Cinnabon.
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And now, the links!
NBA Action: Bet On It! #IhadSpursandMagicinthefinals
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Ah, #vodka, with your “marketing gimmicks that make getting drunk seem like a gateway to fame and fortune”
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The bowling alley of the #Frick: it’s no basement of the Alamo, but still.
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There’s now a computer as dumb as my boss. #thatswhatshesaid
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Joe Queenan goofs on the #gehry glut.
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Is anyone at the #royalwedding sporting a monkey-tail beard?
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Via @khoi, abandoned Yugoslavia monuments of awesomeness.
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Xanadu comes back to life! (Will #MichaelBeck and @olivianj be at the opening?)
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Xanadu: More of disaster than @XanaduMovie? #likedecoratinganuclearreactor #bringbacktheAlexander’smural
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In the movie, I see Billy Bob Thornton as the local, and Pesci as the mobster: #greateststoryever #trustme
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“Tefillin: it’s like Jewish blood pressure.” Go, @MitzvahTank! #areyouJewish?
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Will nobody think of the #pistachios?!
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#AllStarSuperman never should’ve released the sun-eater from captivity:
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The Walk of Shame goes #StreetStyle, via @sartorialist
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So VCs are like the AIDS activists of our time?
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I’m all for taking advantage of gorgeous chicks, but sheesh! #modelscam (via @felixsalmon)
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#HaroldBloom and his “elite Europhile glasses” #agon
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Eat lead! #staedtler and #fabercastell at war
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Every so often, I remind myself why I find contempo literary fiction useless and stultifyingly dull
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Go read this #BenKatchor interview! Nownownow! #CardboardValise (just plow through the “what is comics?” section)
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@felixsalmon delivers a (much appreciated) Jonathan Franzen smackdown
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@witoldr on the secret language of architects.
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This #Houdini article escapes from the need to write in complete sentences. #escapeartistry
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I guess I oughtta get around to reading #GeoffDyer sometime, huh?
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In honor of tonight’s season 2 premiere of #Treme on #HBO, check out this interview with #WendellPierce (#BunkMoreland)
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#ChrisElliott has a DAUGHTER on SNL? #igrowold
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Ron Rosenbaum implores us to visit (Joyce’s) Ithaca (but not much else). (I admit I’ll likely skip #Ulysses)
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I’m awfully happy with my @allenedmonds, I have to say
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I look down on my wife. #shekicksmeintheshins
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Is it good or bad that my TV/movie/prose diet is so similar to that of #StevenSoderbergh? #MillersCrossing!
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25 years ago: Graceland and the Gatwick Baby
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“People who drink coffee are different in many ways from those who don’t drink coffee” #whataboutgin?
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Geoff Dyer on being allergic to David Foster Wallace’s writing (his compare/contrast w/Federer is great)
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“You look into the fiery furnace and see the rich man without any name” #wallstreet
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Neat video of @billy_reid at home.
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@simondoonan on camp: “I am not the brightest Art Nouveau lamp in the room…” #needIsaymore?
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NOLA: The Big Hypothetical
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Fun interview with Glenn O’Brien, onetime Warhol employee and current #StyleGuy for #GQ: #howtobeaman #glennobrien
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Ah, get back to me around yer 20th reunion, ya young bastid.
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Neat take on Android, Google’s business model, and moats.
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Authors and broken promises. #Icantgetstarted
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I would prefer not to poke you. #groupmeh
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Um, the good news is that “cancer” doesn’t exist (the bad news is that it’s more complex than anyone thought) #uhoh
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Would it have more success if it were called a “scrodpiece”? #probablynot
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“It’s still real to me, dammit!” #soareconcussions #andearlydeath #wwe
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When Antonioni met Tarkovsky: #shakeitlikeaPolaroidpicture
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RPG = Rocket-Powered Genius (of design) #rocketpunchgeneration
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@rupaul answers all questions, except, “What’s up with the mustache?” #dragrace
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@david_j_roth speaks truth to pizza (I still don’t understand how @pizzahut stays in business here in NJ.)
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Is there a Damien Hirst level to unlock? #jeffkoonsmustdie
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By @mattnycs: Vote for the man in the small hat: a rabbi runs for office … in Uganda: Parts I and II #really
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Hot chicks with (old) douchebags: #Iblamesociety #Ialsoblamehotchicks
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No Shakespeare in Topeka? #talentnotgenius #billjames
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#Koppenburg: why I don’t bike. #whoneedstheexercise?
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Accidental Mysteries: masked #seenandunseen
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GREAT piece by @comicsreporter on a trip to the #centerforcartoonstudies
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Because, as we know from #chrisrock, books are like Kryptonite to… certain people: #padandquill
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Darkness at Noonan: #tomgoestothebar (happy 60th, Tom Noonan!)
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And I close this month’s edition with a non-link:
“I used to believe that worry was a talisman against something bad happening to you.” thx for the wisdom, @ConanOBrien (& @MarcMaron)!
The Silver Age
This post by Felix Salmon, part of his series about the ludicrous nature of the high art market, reminded me that I never posted my pic of The Andy Monument:
That was just north of Union Square, the afternoon of April 2, after My Brunch With Chip. Here’s some info about The Andy Monument.