Well, frankly, dude, you don’t. You look like your name should be something along the lines of “Russ Trayed”, and you look like you stepped out of the pages of gay cult artist “Tom of Finland”, who specialized in throbbing black and white illustrations of strapping young lads in motorcycle jackets and shades and nothing…
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Yo, Harvard! Some little girl needs her nose wiped!
Yeah, Snotty Little Lizzie needs her nose wiped. As you may have heard, Massachusetts Senator and Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren got into a bitch-slapping Twitter fight following a senate hearing devoted to the iniquities of Silicon giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. After Lizzie posted a clip from the hearing, complaining about folks like Amazon…
Well, this is depressing. Hilaire Belloc’s 1922 anti-Semitic screed “The Jews” is available from Amazon in 59 different formats and editions.
I don’t know how Amazon decided I might be interested in Hilaire Belloc’s pretentious anti-Semitic tome, unless they are counting all my keystrokes (they aren’t, are they?) and found out I looked him up on Wikipedia recently—because I was quoting him, favorably, for his critique of the ultimate justification for western imperialism—“For we have got/The…
This just in: Stephen S. Fuller is a liar
WashPost reporter Dalton Bennett provides this item for the “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along” file: A prominent Washington-area economist wrote an opinion piece welcoming the arrival of Amazon’s new headquarters in Northern Virginia at the suggestion of a company official who hoped to build public support for the project before a…
New York City to Amazon: Drop Dead
In a better universe than ours—there must be one—the provincial New York politicians and union leaders who cut off not their own noses but that of the city’s poor, and (to thoroughly manhandle the metaphor) not to spite their faces but to protect their power, would be punished—very indirectly—by a slow decline in the Great…
Laugh at Me!
The dude above, in full 1965 black and white, is one Sonny Bono, once married to a woman named Cher, whom you may remember. Back in 1965, Sonny’s hair, clothes, and general assemblage were considered risible among the geriatric set, causing Sonny to protest. Today, since its selection as a co-site for almighty Amazon, Crystal…
Will the meek inherent the earth?
Have you ever heard of, much less checked out, “SR”, aka “Screening Room”, a site created by Amazon to push its video products? Well, I just visited their entry for *Red Oaks”, a rollicking (I guess) sit-com redolent of “sex, drugs, and side-ponies” set in the eighties and guaranteed to remind you of Caddyshack. Another…
George Packer’s got the New York Blues
Over at the New Yorker, George Packer has a long, earnest take on Amazon, ebook thing, and what it’s doing to the publishing industry. George is earnest and thorough, and includes some intelligent quotes from some authors who say the New York publishing scene pretty much treats them like shit, but you can tell that…