Friedrich --

* The scarily-smart Aaron Haspel (here) and the equally-scarily-smart Jim Ryan (here) are having an enlightening exchange about the proper use of slippery-slope-style arguments. Aaron, a poetry buff worth attending to, has also begun treating us to an occasional series of first-rate postings on "how to read a poem." Jim Ryan is still putting off his long-awaited posting on the political thinking of John Kekes. Email Jim and tell him to get his act together!

* The scarily-smart (and scarily-entertaining) Brian Micklethwait, of Samizdata fame, has finally, after much inexcusable foot-dragging, got Brian's Cultureblog up and running. It's already wonderful, and it's readable here.

* Polly Frost, of Notes from the Velvet Crypt (here), is back posting after a few weeks away, during which she produced a workshop of a comic play she wrote. Its subject: a young woman's love affair with her cell phone. Nifty!

* On Banana Oil, his new movieblog (here), Michael Hamet confesses that he has watched "Singin' in the Rain" oh, maybe about a hundred and seven times.

* Alice Bachini, the Libertarian Parent in the Countryside (here), continues to get my vote for the blogosphere's "most winning voice," an apparently inimitable combination of whimsy and acuteness.

* I've never properly pointed out Mike Snider on Poetry (here), so I'm doing so now. Mike's blog is the best, most down-to-earth way I know of to ease yourself into the contempo poetry scene. Some damn good poems, too, from Mike himself.

Best,

Michael

Thanks for the props, as ever. I owe you an answer about Tom Wolfe, which I will post on my own blog; the short version is, I still don't know enough about architecture to have had your experience with Bauhaus, but my experience with its sister volume, The Painted Word, was remarkably similar. The older I get, the less I care what people's opinions are and the more I care how they arrived at them. I begin to feel, for example, that you aren't entitled to hate Picasso, or Pollack, unless you really liked them at one time. I'm not being as clear as I would like, but perhaps you know what I mean.

Posted by: Aaron Haspel on January 24, 2003 3:51 PM






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