In an interview with Stern, Rivers pushed the conversation to its bizarre endpoint, saying that Dunham is “sending a message out to people saying, ‘It’s OK! Stay fat! Get diabetes. Everybody die. Lose your fingers.”
As for that Vogue cover, Rivers said: “She was on Vogue’s cover looking gorgeous. You didn’t know it was her.” She said Dunham shouldn’t have appeared on the cover because she didn’t deserve it based on her physical appearance.
You Too Can Ask Me Stuff
Working away today and likely looking for short distractions. Ask me things, Internet.
What are the 5 Artist Editions you would will into existence, if you could?
It was Dortmunder’s belief that in every trade with glamor attached to it – burglary, say, or politics, movies, piloting airplanes – there were the people who actually did the job and were professional about it, and then there were the people on the fringe who were too interested in the glamor and not enough interested in the job, and those were the people who loused it up for everybody else.
More from Westlake’s Nobody’s Perfect. See also: writing.
Remember the Dortmunder Gang – those five hapless but loveable hoodlums who bungled their way through The Hot Rock, Bank Shot and Jimmy the Kid? Well, they’re off again in pursuit of the big score – and this caper is their zaniest fiasco yet.
Dustjacket copy from the 1977 copy of Nobody’s Perfect by Donald Westlake that I’m currently reading.
Said dustjacket copy also includes the phrase “Simple? Not on your Westlake.” More dustjacket copy should be this snappy. Just imagine this kind of thing on Greg Rucka’s Bravo, for example. “Sound like a bad day? You Rucka believe it.”
Obviously, artists do respond to new technology, but it takes time. Real art comes from within. It has soul. There is a time lag for technology to be absorbed and experienced to the degree that soulful art can be made with it.
Video art is the obvious example. Television became universal in many places in the 1950s, but it took until the 1970s for artists to start making worthwhile experimental art with it. And it was not until the 1990s that such experiments entered the mainstream.
I reckon we will start to see the really intelligent, serious art of the digital age in about five to 10 years. On the other hand, the technology may have already changed so much by then that art cannot catch up.
Apropos of the above, I still remember seeing Bill Viola’s work for the first time in… 1998? 1999? Something like that. It was the first time I’d seen “video art” that truly worked for me, and it was amazing, and inspirational.
Scott Snyder on ‘American Vampire’s’ Second Cycle (Exclusive Art)
Scott Snyder on ‘American Vampire’s’ Second Cycle (Exclusive Art)
This Wednesday sees the launch of American Vampire: Second Cycle, the long-awaited return of DC Entertainment/ Vertigo’s critically-acclaimed horror series from Batman and The Wake writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque. In terms of story, the new series picks up a decade after the end of the first American Vampire series, which ended its 34-issue run last year, with Skinner and Pearl both coming to terms with life in the mid-1960s.
One final link/shilling of my own stuff, again from last week: Me talking to Scott Snyder about the return of American Vampire, which I link here mostly for the chance to say how fun it was to chat to Snyder again after such a long time – I originally talked to him when he was launching the series the first time around, so this was a welcome return.
I have no idea why I’m suddenly linking work from the last week; I suspect it’s a decompression tool after a burst of productivity today, when I wrote 3,500+ words for Time, THR and Wired. It’s been a little brain-fry-y, as I’m sure you can imagine.
Why Veronica Mars Would Be Disappointed in Veronica Mars
Why Veronica Mars Would Be Disappointed in Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars might have been a better movie if it didn’t pay so much attention to catering to fans’ wishes.
Again from last week, as I took aim at the level of fan service in the Veronica Mars movie.
It’s Time to Face The Music: The Muppet Shows You Don’t Remember
It’s Time to Face The Music: The Muppet Shows You Don’t Remember
Everyone remembers the 1970s Muppet Show with Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy—but what about the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s revivals? Here’s what you missed.
From last week, back when people were interested in the new Muppet movie – how innocent we were! – I wrote about the three attempts to revive The Muppet Show that people don’t remember.