Yeah, Lethem's article in the current Harper's is a thing of beauty. Every paragraph is appropriated from somewhere else.
I just read it - genius! Or certainly very cool. Interestingly, I was familiar with a number of his sources because our interests (music writing, cyberpunk, post-modern theory, etc.) overlap. I think we're close to the same age since we ping at the same points.
I'm well acquainted with Lewis Hyde's
The Gift
since it was a very popular text when I was in college and he spoke at Kenyon frequently, even taking a professorship at one point.
Note: Lethem even steals from sometime Buffista and NY Times fandom mole Emily Nussbaum!
Video Killed the Radio Star
I used to hate that song. Now I kinda like it.
Bad-ass, Buddhist - now bluesman:
[link]
I think several of us have seen it. In fact, it's incredibly dull.
I'm going to see The Hold Steady Tuesday! How awesome is that?
Much less awesome is that I'm missing the Decemberists tonight because tickets were totally sold out. Sigh.
It\'s the illustration that makes Tom\'s link worthwhile.
It's the illustration that makes Tom's link worthwhile.
Yes. You can tell that it is a good invention, worthy of a patent, by the way the guy in the illustration is rocking so successfully.
He even has the openmouthed look of a man screaming "YEEEEEEOW! HELLO CLEVELAND!"
