| "The Wire" as a Dickens serial | | It's one of those ideas that sounds less nuts the more you think about it: "The Wire" imagined as a 19th-century serialized novel. After all, David Simon's great multi-season drama had all the muckraking moral outrage of Charles Dickens (Google the reviews and try to count the number of times you see the word "Dickensian"), and its shifting viewpoint over five seasons gave it a similar historical [..] Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 24-Mar-2011 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| Ten Sexy Ladies | | You might know Joshua Allen from the Twitter, where he posts hilariously (and not often enough) under the handle Fireland. Allen is one of the three or four people who make it seem possible that Twitter can spawn something like art. (Others? Tim Siedell, Adam Lisagor and Christian A. Dumais, the guy behind Drunk Hulk. That's my list. I'm sure you have yours.) Now, just to rub it in, he has a new p [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 19-Mar-2011 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| IBM's "Watson" Jeopardy! computer: it's all about the digits | | Thanks to my own 13 games of Jeopardy! and the book about it and all, lots of people (including the New York Times) have asked my opinion about the whole IBM computer vs. Ken Jennings vs. Brad Rutter cage match, airing next Mon-Wed (check local listings). Let's be clear: I have no inside knowledge, and while Ken and Brad are both friends of mine, we haven't discussed the games. I'm just a former p [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 11-Feb-2011 por Bob Harris en cultureguestblog
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| Also, you're gonna love this buttercream scaloppini | | I want to be snippy about this Wall Street Journal trend story. I really do. It encapsulates everything I hate about trend stories: The totally fake, self-justifying notion that Suddenly everybody is {insert trend here}!!!, the lazy reliance on a few East-Side-of-LA hipsters to underpin the thing, the utterly un-self-aware trashing of whatever previous trend the publication has just pivoted away f [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 03-Feb-2011 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| The Exotica Project | | It's easier for me to define exotica, a lush, atmospheric, sometimes-sappy instrumental pop music of the '50s and '60s, than it is for me to explain why I love it. I think it has something to do with nostalgia for a time I didn't really live through -- a late-postwar period in which the world was bigger and stranger, and unfamiliar locales could be described with a straight face as "exotic." (One [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 02-Feb-2011 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| Bill Murray at the NBR | | Every time I think Bill Murray is a perfect and unimprovable paragon of cool, he does something to get cooler. Like this, his speech introducing writer/director Sofia Coppola at last night's National Board of Review Awards. Murray was perfectly suited to the task of winging an introduction for Coppola: She directed him in a titanic performance in 2003's "Lost In Translation," and he has for many y [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 13-Jan-2011 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| All I want for Christmas is the $62,000 Twitter owes me | | I'm not a greedy man, or an unreasonable one. (Nor, for that matter, am I insane. I'm NOT.) So when I sat down to place a monetary value on the content that's gone missing from my Twitter stream over the last week, an issue that Twitter has so far failed to acknowledge, I consistently rounded down. That's how I arrived at $62,000....
[..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 24-Dec-2010 por Bill Barol en cultureguestblog
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| Century of No Progress | | Soon we will be living in a magical future, a world without wires, in which all of our energy and information needs will be met invisibly, pulsing in the air around us, not causing cancer at all. And only a century too late to save poor Nikola Tesla. Tesla (1856-1943) was sort of the sad sack of the scientific genius world, brilliant and only a little insane, who nevertheless failed in most of his [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 23-Jun-2010 por Larry Doyle en cultureguestblog
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| RICHARD PAUTASSO PASO POR SANTA FE | | Verborrágico, informal, preciso. Conciso en sus expresiones. Richard Pautasso -que alterna su existencia entre Santa Fe y [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 25-Aug-2008 por noreply@blogger.com (the theac en cultureguestblog
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