It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
Of course, Elvis is one of these American icons who has been infinitely reclaimed, and this is perhaps the key to his celebrity: the ability to be remade by different generations of people who will see themselves differently in sympathy with the mythos that surround the figure.
Now, by all accounts those dudes at the Pirate Bay couldn’t care less about the legal proceedings against them, but their trial continues to have ramifications for how the rest of us think about media sharing, a philosophical problem that rarely gets treated with the weight it deserves
I love a good internet backlash as much as the next guy, but something about what has been going on over at the Hulu Blog for the past couple of days tickles me in a way that an internet outrage campaign has never done before.
Last week while everyone was freaking out about peanuts causing Salmonella, there was another quiet little arrival of something even worse: Listeria.
On day three at the writing conference, I spent more time with the hard realists because three writing conference days are the equivalent of a stretch of cynical, world-wearying years out in reality.
…at first glance having your project called “literary” might seem a compliment, but depending on the literary agent it could also mean anything from “I’m not interested in this” to “I can’t sell this” to “This will never be sold anywhere outside of your favorite coffee shop.”