http://cantstandmenow.com/blog look out, magazine editor on the loose Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:35:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't say Sparklehorse was the most consistent group/guy in music, but when it/he was good he was very good. Mark Linkous killed himself Sunday -- very sad. http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2010/03/10/farewell-mark-linkous/ "Daddy was making them watch yet another documentary on the impact of Bauhaus on American architecture." --from Unhappy Hipsters, a deconstruction of the photography in Dwell magazine. http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2010/02/15/nice-to-visit-but-you-wouldnt-want-to-dwell-there/ http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2010/01/31/kseniya-simonova/ The pre-Avatar media blitz was something else, wasn't it? Seemed you couldn't pick up a magazine or turn on the telly without seeing a profile of James Cameron. When I read the New Yorker's take on him, I got hung up on this: "Creating a universe is daunting," George Lucas said. ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/12/30/now-playing/ It's been, what -- two weeks? -- since the season finale of Californication aired and I still can't get "Rocket Man" out of my head. I don't particularly like Elton John, but this scene just blew me away. It was an uneven season, and I often couldn't make up my ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/12/30/without-words/ True story: I was a little uncomfortable leaving the big NYC penis image at the top of the page. What if I didn't post for a week or two -- do I want this thing dangling there indefinitely? Like the old saying about wearing clean underwear in case you're hit ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/12/01/talk-about-your-cats-getting-weeded-down/ On the subway today trying to explain the MTA map to the curious kid. Looking at it anew, I noticed -- not that I shared this with him -- yeah, it does look like a shlong, doesn't it? All in all it was a nice visit to the Upper East ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/11/22/anatomy-of-the-city/ The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen "unfriend" as its word of the year. Problem: The term is de-friend, not unfriend. I have de-friended numerous people over the years. Twitter is a different matter -- on Twitter you follow, and then when the person starts spouting a bunch of Fox News garbage ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/11/18/oed-woty-fail/ I find it difficult to get excited over Esquire's "Augmented Reality Issue," out next week. As a veteran of magazines -- a casualty of them, actually -- I have to say that this kind of thing is just dead wrong. You get a magazine with a glyph on the front ... http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/11/02/paper-doing-the-white-mans-overbite/ http://cantstandmenow.com/blog/2009/10/30/drunk-ewoks/