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What a shock, a hard-hitting Slate article—on Robert Christgau's firing, no less. Jody Rosen's appreciation of Christgau is spot on: When he's good, he's brilliant, but he does have some seemingly inconsistent blind spots.
Overall, I give him an A.
"I don't dare open the file you left in my folder," says JA.
He's talking about the master database for the 2007 Buyer's Guide. It's swollen with model names and numbers, bloated with impedances and frequency responses, bursting — absolutely bursting, I tell you — with weights, warranties, and retail prices. I don't blame him for not wanting to open it. I don't blame him at all.
"Ah, don't worry about it," I say.
"Don't worry about it," he repeats.
"It's good advice," I say.
"Richard just finished copyediting the first of Art's opening essays. I don't…
Frederick Crews' Follies of the Wise puts the boot to Freud, creationism, and "peacemaking scientists" who attempt to reconcile science with "improbable claims that are in principle empirically testable."
Crews' conclusion: "The human race has produced only one successfully validated epistemology, characterizing all scrupulous inquiry into the real world, from quarks to poems. It is, simply, empiricism, or the submitting of propositions to the arbitration of evidence that is acknowledged to be such by all of the contending parties. Ideas that claim immunity from such review, whether…
Portly? Could be your genes. Beautiful? You may be a genetic lottery winner. Your personality, though, that's probably 80% your fault.
Personally, I blame the media.
Maps with South on the top. Antipodal revenge?
Who decided that North was up?
Oh yeah:
So, I was sitting at home on the orange couch, flipping through a recent issue of Dwell, pretending to think about the virtues of a green lifestyle, really just admiring the pretty pictures and the heavy stock, when I noticed something familiar. It was an ad. For a loudspeaker. A MartinLogan loudspeaker. And I was all like, WTF, man? I can't even remember the last time MartinLogan ran with us, Stereophile — a high-end audio magazine, a damn good (some would say "BEST EVER") high-end audio magazine — but here they are, running in this design magazine.
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