Total Bankers
This from John Lancaster in the 11th of March London Review of Books “….It was bonuses which put bank-bashing back on the rhetorical and legislative agenda. Anyone prone to thinking that investment bankers are geniuses should look at their catastrophically maladroit handling of the bonus issues this year. Goldman Sachs clearly thought they were exercising … Read more
Every good critic has.no.taste (Part II)
[follows on from Part I] …To explain: there are few things that I find less important (and thus, more absurdly over-valued) than people’s tastes. In anything. It doesn’t matter whether it’s their taste in music, or in books, in décor or in lovers, in hairspray, or in spray-on spirituality. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with … Read more
Every good critic has.no.taste. (Part I – Prelude)
For the last few days, I’ve had the strange feeling of needing to explain something to someone. Trust me when I say that this is unusual. I mean, I do often want to explain things to people. Indeed, I also pretty frequently find myself actually trying to explain something — not only to students, who … Read more
Things to do with Windows Movie Maker when you’re drooling.
All right. Just so that I don’t confuse you: the inaugural video for “Pretty Cool for an Iconodule” can be found below, i.e., in the PREVIOUS post to this one (c.f. “Maladjusted reviews et cetera.”) However, for the two or three of you who were once readers of “Drowning in Vitriol”, I thought I should … Read more
Maladjusted Reviews: Biographies, Biopics and Jane Campion’s latest film
As promised, this is the new video with which I’d like to launch “Pretty Cool (for an iconodule). Is it representative of what is to follow? Hopefully not. This one was a real bastard to do (worse than Greek participles). I hope that maybe some of you like…some of it. I know that it’s too … Read more
