Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Jul 27th, 2010
Every Tuesday night, we gather around the television. It is time for Deadliest Warrior, a show where two historical tough guys are forced into metaphorical battle, a winner determined via weapons tests and computer simulations. Pirate vs. Knight. Samurai vs. Viking. Jesse James vs. Al Capone. It is a show shamelessly targeted at male viewers, [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 23rd, 2010
1. Poutine: french fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. More emotive: a food so good as to be unreal. Also: one of the many reasons I run. 2. Look at the above picture. Note the gravy’s heaviness, how the fries are not so much covered in gravy as they are infused therewith. 3. Cheese [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 8th, 2010
You will know him by the arch of his foot. The crease of his pads. The print he leaves behind. Know him also by odor: sweat-furred and mud-soaked, lingering. What you hear at night, it is no grizzly, nor is what loiters near the dumpster after dark. Find him not in the bowels of the [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 5th, 2010
Its form is not determined primarily by length. Rather, there are certain inclinations in its modality. It is a vessel for big ideas. (Consider Calvino’s Invisible Cities, which makes abstract proclamations about time, space, memory, and desire, all with very few sensory details.) It is a space inclined to madness, often provoked by the difficulty of claiming and retaining the [...]