Jottings

Posted 26 July, 2007 in Jottings |

• Russell Smith’s column in today’s Globe and Mail is about “the commodification of the erotic,” and the idea that Western society has become saturated in sexual imagery and language (which Smith sees as preferable to the kind of repression that prevailed in the ’50s). What I find most amusing about this is that the column is located directly beneath an article about Martin Gero’s debut feature, which will open the Canada First! series at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The title of the film? Young People Fucking.
• “I don’t think bloggers read”: Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture, profiled at the Guardian.
• They paved paradise, and put up a coffee shop.
• “Just kick the fucking thing.” (via Ed.)
• James Wolcott tears Mark Steyn a new one. (via Whitlock.)
• Craig Davidson’s record as an amateur boxer is now 0-2. He deconstructs his bout with rival novelist Jonathan Ames (who is forty-three years old, by the way), here.
• Moonlight Ambulette on libraries.

2 comments to “Jottings”

Panic, July 26th, 2007 at 3:55 pm:

• Off topic:
  Seeing you on Bookninja reminded me to thank you for the Poppy Shakespeare heads up. Finished it last night. Completely heartbreaking at the end.

Steven W. Beattie, July 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm:

• Always happy to see good books getting readers.

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