Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on May 25th, 2011
At first, you embrace it. Take time for yourself: do crossword puzzles and watch bad sitcoms. But the embrace goes on too long. You stay up past all the sitcoms until there’s only paid programming. Then you get in bed, count the trains (one every hour on the quarter). Count people you’ve kissed. Count astrological [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 15th, 2011
Few foreheads in our cultural imagination imply as much as Patrick Stewart’s. This is doubly impressive because he lodged himself in said imagination with his role as Jean Luc-Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show replete with foreheads (Klingon, Romulan, Ferengi, even Borg) flashier than his. However, the Stewart Forehead, like all things [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 11th, 2011
We admired her perfection, but we loved her gender. As the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic approached, undefeated Zenyatta was the race’s reigning champion and only female winner. On race day at Churchill Downs, lithe young women in micro-minis and racing silks distributed free Zenyatta posters—pink, of course. Zenyatta’s gender wasn’t just an issue; it was [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 5th, 2011
You’ve heard of this. It’s where they put you in a vertical wind tunnel, a giant fan beneath you. You wear a nylon suit with lots of vents, a helmet, goggles, earplugs, your own soiled tennis shoes. When the fan starts it sounds like a hundred lawn mowers and makes your legs feel as if [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 2nd, 2011
Much has been made of the creeping conquest of Facebook™ by grandmothers and in-laws. But more troublesome than the intrusive older relatives is the proliferation of babies with their own pages and profiles. An initial glance at my feed and I’m impressed. I think, Here is an inordinately tech-savvy three-month old. But the truth is [...]