I am really pleased that people are still enjoying my review of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) seven years after it found a home outside my journal. There is in fact a lesson here. Dammit.
Have some links.
1. I am not sure of the source for this Vietnamese folk cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky," but it's magnificent. I am not sure I had ever heard a đàn bầu before; the electric version seems to combine the best features of a zither and a theremin.
2. David Schraub does some signal-from-noise winnowing: "Working Through Two New Polls on Antisemitism and BDS." I am especially hoping this part of the results makes it back into the discourse:
The way it's been covered in the press, one would think that Jews are fearful of left antisemitism and furious at the Democratic Party for not tamping down on it. In reality, the consensus position in the Jewish community is that the most dangerous antisemitism remains far-right antisemitism, and that in terms of political responsibility the Republican Party is a far more dangerous actor than the Democratic Party is. That consensus has the added advantage of reflecting reality—it's obviously true that right-wing antisemitism (the sort that gets Jews killed) in America is more dangerous than other varieties, and it's obviously true that the GOP has been nothing short of abysmal in policing itself and reining in its antisemitic conspiracy mongers (thinking instead that its Israel policies entitle it to a nice fat "get-out-of-antisemitism-free" card).
3. I saw that Nick Tosches died. I don't think I read any of his criticism, although all of his obituaries have convinced me that I should. What I did read was his terrific introduction to the NYRB reprint of William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley (1946), which now looks perfectly on his continuity of incendiary, maudit art.
I think everything else I wanted to link over the last couple of weeks is now out of date. It's been that kind of couple of weeks. I have watched some movies and hope to do something about it.
Have some links.
1. I am not sure of the source for this Vietnamese folk cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky," but it's magnificent. I am not sure I had ever heard a đàn bầu before; the electric version seems to combine the best features of a zither and a theremin.
2. David Schraub does some signal-from-noise winnowing: "Working Through Two New Polls on Antisemitism and BDS." I am especially hoping this part of the results makes it back into the discourse:
The way it's been covered in the press, one would think that Jews are fearful of left antisemitism and furious at the Democratic Party for not tamping down on it. In reality, the consensus position in the Jewish community is that the most dangerous antisemitism remains far-right antisemitism, and that in terms of political responsibility the Republican Party is a far more dangerous actor than the Democratic Party is. That consensus has the added advantage of reflecting reality—it's obviously true that right-wing antisemitism (the sort that gets Jews killed) in America is more dangerous than other varieties, and it's obviously true that the GOP has been nothing short of abysmal in policing itself and reining in its antisemitic conspiracy mongers (thinking instead that its Israel policies entitle it to a nice fat "get-out-of-antisemitism-free" card).
3. I saw that Nick Tosches died. I don't think I read any of his criticism, although all of his obituaries have convinced me that I should. What I did read was his terrific introduction to the NYRB reprint of William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley (1946), which now looks perfectly on his continuity of incendiary, maudit art.
I think everything else I wanted to link over the last couple of weeks is now out of date. It's been that kind of couple of weeks. I have watched some movies and hope to do something about it.
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