A new survey unfurls what we didn’t know before. Most bloggers write about their personal lives. Keep uncovering those shocking conclusions, Pew!
Jonathan Ames talks Hammett with NPR: “The Continental Op gives me courage. I try to be like him when I have to face the problems in my life.”
Is Viacom buying the Onion? I sure hope not. Remember MAD Magazine before it was purchased by Time Warner and what happened to it after William Gaines’ death? (And if you can somehow get your hands on Broderbund’s CD-ROM collection, Totally MAD, which sits permanently on my desk, you can compare issues before and after 1992.) It was fresh, edgy, and unapologetically adolescent. Then it became a hollow shell of its former self and it started to pull its punches. Sadly, I suspect we’ll see something similar with The Onion if the Viacom deal goes through.
Many have expressed surprise over Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World: a book that is doing extremely well in Germany, with Kehlmann being compared to Proust. They are stunned that Kehlmannn’s book evinces “humor and lightness” and that Germans are capable of either of these two human qualities. German humor is certainly quite odd, but this doesn’t mean it’s nonexistent.
Ruth Franklin on Black Swan Green. The first part of our long promised Mitchell podcast, which includes a discussion on the correct pronunciation of Nabokov and contemplation on American vs. British sandwiches (along with other heady topics), will leave the building very soon.
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Can’t read the whole article but to me the first sentence sounds snide with the “echoless” crap. What the hell does TNYT’s staff think people should use blogs for? I think blogs–by definition–have always been more personal tools than other kinds of websites.
It’s for shit sure that I don’t think newspapers should be used for publishing LIES. I’m from NYC originally; I don’t know what the hell has happened to that paper. I barely recognize it today. Or maybe my memory of the past is a too-rosy faulty one. I don’t know.
When people seemingly slam blogs for being “personal,” it really annoys me. My blog’s personal–DEAL WITH IT, WORLD. And, TNYT, can you hear the lack of an echo coming from my end toward your “news”paper?
The Onion tried to sell itself to Comedy Central (owned by Viacom) back in 2000 and it failed under the owners at the time. They moved to NYC not to take in the pizza and the joys of riding the NYC subway. They moved out here to do business. And while they play close to the chest on their internal dealings, anyone thinking they stopped trying to court Viacom is hopped up on goofballs. The Onion wants to be bought out and has wanted to sell itself for years.
Can’t read the whole article but to me the first sentence sounds snide with the “echoless” crap. What the hell does TNYT’s staff think people should use blogs for? I think blogs–by definition–have always been more personal tools than other kinds of websites.
It’s for shit sure that I don’t think newspapers should be used for publishing LIES. I’m from NYC originally; I don’t know what the hell has happened to that paper. I barely recognize it today. Or maybe my memory of the past is a too-rosy faulty one. I don’t know.
When people seemingly slam blogs for being “personal,” it really annoys me. My blog’s personal–DEAL WITH IT, WORLD. And, TNYT, can you hear the lack of an echo coming from my end toward your “news”paper?
The Onion tried to sell itself to Comedy Central (owned by Viacom) back in 2000 and it failed under the owners at the time. They moved to NYC not to take in the pizza and the joys of riding the NYC subway. They moved out here to do business. And while they play close to the chest on their internal dealings, anyone thinking they stopped trying to court Viacom is hopped up on goofballs. The Onion wants to be bought out and has wanted to sell itself for years.