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February 27, 2007
Hooray for Matt Taibbi
You know, those "Gen-X Hunter Thompson" accolades are actually starting to carry a little weight. Some of his RS stuff's been a tad toothless for my tastes (the embedded-in-Iraq story from a couple months ago), but his article on the worst Congress ever more than made up for it. And his stuff in Alternet hits the fucking target like a bunker buster.
Talk About the Langue/Apt Distance
Came across this interesting and in-depth blog post about my Murmur book, specifically regarding the chapter on metaphor. (This follows an earlier, very amicable review here.)
February 20, 2007
33 1/3 Pitches
David Barker, the editor of Continuum's 33 1/3 book series, posted the entire list of proposals for the next installment of the series -- 449 in all. And seven pitches for Weezer's Pinkerton? (Last I checked, there were 135 comments, as well -- though most seemed to be from nervous would-be authors.)
February 08, 2007
Joppers!
The '06 Voice Pazz & Jop Poll is in. Dylan; Cookie Mountain; "Crazy". Whoopdie-frickin'-doo. None did much for my systolic rate, nothing a Far East Kitchen black bean & ginger pike can't do. Yeah, it was that blasé of a year -- I actually picked a release by a band called The Whitest Boy Alive in my ballot, as well as an album called Critics Pass Away. Kinda symbolic, and not just in light of my Caucasoid-leaning tastes, or this past year's debut of the Jackin' Pop poll (and the subsequent hoo-hah. By which I mean turd-tempest in a toilet.) Real good records, though, them two. In unrelated news, I was pleasantly pleased to find a mystery check from the Dallas Observer in my mailbox yesterday. They apparently plucked the very same little review off the syndicate wire that City Pages had yoinked not three weeks earlier, a review that originally ran in SF Weekly a couple weeks before that. First trifecta of this kind for me, and kinda neat. (And kinda useful, in the wake of the pummeling my credit cards endured over the past coupla months from the combined wedding/honeymoon/holiday season.)
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