It's been a while since you've asked -- actually, you've never asked -- but let me tell you... my favorite new blog is
This Recording. What we have here is failure to communicate... strange little essays, or collages, usually around people, like
Cronenberg or
Ashbery or
Anselm or
Scarlett or
Diablo or
Sun Ra or
Pasolini or
Sasha (!!!), that are pieced together with aphorisms, links, pictures, and music, with lots of italics and ellipses. You don't really "read" the posts so much as "scan" them, which is not the same as "skim" -- it takes time. Sometimes they adopt the style of a writer --
Brett Easton Ellis -- and other times it's just something random like
deducing who killed Chris Farley. Even the straight-up stuff, like
the memo to Hollywood on which books to adapt, has this strange outsider voice. Most of the writers are, I think, from LA, or at least it feels like LA. It's not
done-with-it-all jaded like NYC or
earnestly passive-aggressive like the Midwest. It's more like some crazy ass pastiche, like
this random thing about Mad Men from a few days ago, which we can either call an "essay" or visual-poetry-media-criticism-mashup. Whatevski, I could read
this Molly person all day. Update:
"when Walt Whitman liveblogged Abraham Lincoln's funeral".
I regret not seeing it sooner.
Oh, and it sorta reminds me of the great Tony Pierce, who's also in LA. There's a definite style there... has anyone ever written about this? LA blogs might be where it's at...
(Okay, I should research first. The writers are from all over.)
molly (editress i believe) even wrote for denton for a spell last month (or the month before).
Sorry guys, not convinced yet. I guess I'm supposed to use my "sincere" voice here, so here goes: there's a strong air of contrivance about a lot of what they write. Which doesn't go without saying that, when you get down to it, everything else on the web isn't (oh, it is, it so is) but there's something about it that's kind of like sucking the "bubbles" out of bubble tea: at once both obvious and sudden, arbitrary, and not tasty enough to warrant a second drink. Unless you're into sucking dick.
Anyway. Some of it's okay.
i heart this blog too!
I heart bubble tea. Yea so what the bubbles don't taste like much; the texture is so slimy and fun!
we heart being hearted, and fek I'd say the majority of our posters are into sucking dick, but I hate bubble tea. the bobas are just too gelatinous. I never want for texture in my drinking liquids.
I don't like chunky drinks in general, except maybe chunky milkshakes. Of which category boba does not fit.
not a fan of milkshakes at all. unless it's Kelis' Milkshake. nice blog, btw..
No, Rex, you're right! LA bloggers are where it's at.
Hit and miss IMO, but seriously - how is that Farley thing a "post"? They just scan in half the book and get credit for it? The soft bigotry of low expectations hits the blogging world...