Wilfrid Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Yo, I tell you what I want... A splendid piece by Petrusich on the Spice Girls. Nails them. You do have to get halfway through before you know why she's writing it: 25th anniversary edition of Spiceworld. I have the original and should give it "a spin." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Listening again to “Wannabe” I am reminded that there is no rapping. When Mel B swings to “Em in the place” she is toasting dance hall style. As part of this extraordinary track. Not beating Amanda up over that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 “Wind it all around.” Dance hall not US rap. Yes, I am listening to it a bunch, what a ridiculously inventive piece of work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 From the article on painter Kehinde Wiley. Can anyone make sense of this? Quote He threw legendary parties, cooking, at one bacchanal, a menu of six quail, four rabbits, three red snappers, and two ducks with the heads left on for about a hundred guests. I can see only two ways to read that and neither make sense. Either he tried to stretch the food listed to feed about a hundred guests (not possible), or he cooked that menu for each guest (not possible for one man to do, and it would take a hundred Diamond Jim Bradys to eat like that). Am I missing something? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
small h Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 It was a potluck? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greenspace Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 spoiler: it was an art party. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Great to see Elif Batuman’s byline in the magazine. It’s a provocative piece and I certainly disagree with some of it, but what an amazing writer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neocon maudit Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I think I got kicked out of H right before Batuman matriculated, though I doubt we would have been in the same circles, at least initially. I miss her on Twitter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I was dating a recent Russian Studies masters recipent from Stanford. I gave her a copy of The Possessed, saying she HAD to read it. She was like, "oh Elif, she was my TA! I've been meaning to pick this up!" I knew I was out of my league. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Whoa. I now have to read it, especially as it has a Roz Chast cover. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bloviatrix Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 This is as good a place as any to mention that my son is obsessed with Roz Chast and is currently in the midst of reading her book Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? which deals with the deaths of both of her parents. He is such a stereotypical Upper West Sider!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I remember when I first met R. Chast. I was surprised. I had thought she was man. "You thought I was a MAN?????????" "I guess I thought R was a boy's name." "You thought R was a BOY'S name??????????" It was not a good encounter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 And if you don't know, now you know Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 18 hours ago, bloviatrix said: This is as good a place as any to mention that my son is obsessed with Roz Chast and is currently in the midst of reading her book Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? which deals with the deaths of both of her parents. He is such a stereotypical Upper West Sider!!! Great book. She's one of my two favorite cartoonists (Keith Knight is the other.) I was thrilled to get a chance to see her in person in Berkeley right before the pandemic, doing a "reading" with Patricia Marx for their book You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time. Lots of ukelele playing too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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