parabasis.typepad — By isaac Butler The Fandom Issue got featured on Metafilter this week and in wading through the comments I found this one from Tubalcain that I wanted to share with ya'll because I thought it offered some food for thought: What's kind of curious to me is the idea of the "rise"...
parabasis.typepad — By Isaac Butler (Below, we continue our coversation with Salon's Laura Miller, touching on Battlestar Galactica, love triangles, the impossibility of endings, the rise of the female fan and Miller's infamous pan of Chuck Palahniuk's "Diary." There is a minor spoiler about the second book/season of Game of Thrones in this interview....
parabasis.typepad — By Isaac Butler It's good of the Guthrie to add more women and people of color into their season in the wake of the earlier outcry. That was the right thing to do. Details on the new announcement here. Hopefully next season they'll preempt this stuff by programming more works be...
parabasis.typepad — By Freddie deBoer (Editor's Note: A few years ago, I remarked to a novelist friend that our particular geeky obsessions no longer seemed special. Everyone knew about them. "Yeah," he replied, "now that HEROES is on TV, the idea that there's any particular cache to obscure geek knowledge has been totally...
parabasis.typepad — By Isaac Butler Of all my enthusiasms over the years, the one I am the most mortified about is my (it turns out not) undying love for Phish from Freshman year of High School until roughly Senior year of college. And here I want to already insert qualifications. How starting in...
parabasis.typepad — By Isaac Butler Perhaps you've heard of this whole Naomi Schaefer Riley kerfuffle, perhaps you haven't, but basically what happened was this: In a blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education (the closest thing to a trade paper we have in academia... Variety for Nerds!) a journalist named Naomi Schaefer Riley penned...
artsjournal — For those who've asked, funeral ceremonies for Evelyn Teachout, my beloved mother, will take place on Wednesday, May 9, at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel, 205 N. Stoddard, Sikeston, Missouri, with interment to follow at the Garden of Memories Cemetery. Visitation will be on Tuesday from five to eight p.m. Memorial contributions may...
artsjournal — My mother was a high-school beauty queen. A baby-faced brunette with a mind as good as her looks, she was baptized in a river, grew up on a Depression-era farm, and moved to Smalltown, U.S.A., at the end of World War II. In 1947 she married a dashing Army Air...
artsjournal — Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire play Schubert's A Major Rondo, D. 951: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
parabasis.typepad — by 99 Seats Cheeky posts aside, I've been pretty hesitant to wade into the Guthrie 2012-13 season mess. I think that Polly Carl summed up most of my general feelings on the matter pretty well (so she gets a double link). The thing that makes me hesistant about engaging in this conversation...
parabasis.typepad — By Isaac Butler Joe Dowling's full interview transcript for his spot on All Things Considered can be found here. There's a lot that he says-- most of it embarrassing-- that needs to be thought through and parsed. Hopefully we'll have more comment here on parabasis over the next few days. That being...