Author Archives: Glynn Marshes

“Consumerism…cannot make sense of art.”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: Meanwhile, over at Metro, Eleanor Catton’s been thinking about elitism, literary criticism, and consumerism. And yes, she’s standing atop the capital-L Literature bulwark, and yes, she’s wringing her hands — difficult to avoid when you’re an elitist … Continue reading →

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Oh, My

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: IT’S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. What’s less well … Continue reading →

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Pop Culture Stat o’ the Day

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: As of this minute, Miley Cyrus official (Vevo) Youtube video for her song “Wrecking Ball:” 1,977,185 “likes” — but — 965,637 “dislikes” Awful lot of hatin’ for a song that charted as well as that one did.

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“I want to dismantle the sediment”

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: A marvelous malapropism, buried like a bloggy easter egg in an article that . . . … calls on science fiction writers to join the revolution: sci fi novels are way too gender binary, yo. I want … Continue reading →

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Three 21st Century Songs About War

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: That is to say, post 9-11. These are no Country Joe McDonald call-to-action polemics. On the contrary, here we have reflectiveness; meditations on the reasons for and cost of war; personal narrative. All come from the indie … Continue reading →

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gimme some sugar…y politics?

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: In 1660, when it was a luxury associated with social privilege, England consumed a thousand hogsheads of sugar. [By 1717] that figure had . . . increased a hundredfold while the per capita annual consumption of sugar … Continue reading →

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And the Colour! And the Jolly Quiet of the Place!

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: A compilation of Victorian era cartoons about painters, by Charles Keene, cartoonist for Punch. (My post headline comes the fourth cartoon’s caption, which depicts an artist protesting to his companion that the scene he’s painting isn’t dull. … Continue reading →

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speaking of architecture…

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: You guys following the articles on Havana by Michael Totten? From The Once Great City of Havana: Yet the bones of Cuba’s capital are unmatched in our hemisphere. “The Cubans of successive centuries created a harmonious architectural … Continue reading →

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17th Century Pirates. In NYC.

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: Ha. In addition to rewarding his friends with the crown’s territories [New York governor Benjamin] Fletcher gave them free reign in the piracy business. As Kind William’s War dragged on — it didn’t end until 1697 — … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing Dietary Science?

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: After my I posted on Resistant Starch a couple days ago, Richard Nikoley of the blog Free the Animal saw his pingback and dropped by to let me know he’d published a new post on the topic, … Continue reading →

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