Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Some UD readers seem upset that I quote Sarah Palin on Climategate. Just so the wine-and-cheese elite feel as welcome here as the unwashed masses, here’s Camille Paglia on Climategate before it was Climategate (commenting to someone named Hanson): Hanson: I too grew up in upstate New York. I am an environmental groundwater geologist (who almost [...]
The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Ridley Scott's masterful sci-fi horror flick [ Alien , 1979] succeeds quite nicely as a shock & awe narrative, but it's so much more: An absorbing, symbolic-visual exploration of the birth/death parasitic/symbiotic metaphors that leaves one breathless with alternatives. Camille Paglia once described sexual reproduction in the natural world in terms of plagues and hoards and swarms--which is not...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Best thing I've heard today: Gloria Allred canceled her press conference with her stunningly-attractive client, Rachel Uchitel , just as Uchitel was poised to Tell All about her "relationship" with Tiger Woods. Scandalmongers everywhere sobbed; Gloria never lets us down. This is a first! After the cancellation, Allred's daughter, Lisa Bloom (yes, intrepid Court-TV junkies and scandalmongers...
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Paul Blackburn reads like he's a poet who could watch himself in action, as if he were view a video tape of the sorts of intimacies he's committed himself to and can discern the disjunction when speeches that woo a partner to bed do not match the darker impulse, the baser need. In an especially good discussion of his poem "The Once Over" in her book Break, Blow Burn , Camille Paglia precisely...
Baseball Crank (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
*Lots of interesting stuff out there on Sarah Palin and her book tour. the Daily Beast looks at how Palin's book and tour are a one-woman economic stimulus package . Obama's organization wants a part of that action too: Organizing for America says Palin's book tour is "dangerous," so please give them $5 . As liberal writer Ezra Klein notes of the Palin coverage: Liberal sites need traffic...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I'm shocked SHOCKED to find the modern masterpiece of 2009, ANTICHRIST, getting such hostile reviews. Why? Call me off the wall but I'm betting a) a lot of critics just don't know much about film history; b) Camille Paglia has fallen from grace in modern academia; c) Many critics never did learn the difference between "exploring" issues of misogyny and actually "being" misogynist,...
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
As I'm catching flack from, among others, two of the three co-panelists from my MLA panel on academic blogging concerning the title to my Camille Paglia post , I feel the need to have Molly Ivins clarify it for me ( courtesy of Ahistoricality ) : You think perhaps this is a cheap shot, that I have searched her work and caught Ms. Paglia in a rare moment of sweeping generalization, easy to make fun...
dcat (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Just days after Deadspin founder Will Leitch wrote a nice piece recognizing the contributions of The Sportsguy Bill Simmons, the site publishes Charles Pierce's absolute takedown of Simmons' new book on the NBA. (Extra credit to Pierce for linking this glorious Molly Ivins evisceration of Camille Paglia.) I know it is too grad-schoolish of me, but I find sympathy with both Leich and Pierce on Sportsguy....
Popbytes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
» oh the thought of these two having sex is too much to bear litely salted « » amy winehouse wants to make her ass bigger to match her boobs the blemish « » what is going on between britney spears and satan?! the superficial « » today's a good day just because it's ryan gosling's birthday! lainey gossip « » geena davis is looking a bit different...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
While lesbian feminista Democrat Camille Paglia admires Pelosi's "grittiness" and "mettle" (but detests what Pelosi has produced. BTW, we like Paglia a lot. She is the kind of person it is pleasant and interesting to disagree with, and we appreciate grit in women), Dr. Laura has another view of the world at home: The Evolution of ‘Feminism' Saddens Me. One quote: ...it’s...
Auntie Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Naomi Wolf Happy birthday, Naomi Wolf. I miss the gold old days, when you and Camille Paglia used to fight like NeNe and Shereé on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” I wonder if anyone at Bravo has considered giving you two your own show? Hmm . . .
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Dem Camille Paglia on the Dem bill: As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to begin? That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S. healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and vulnerable into the fold has been a high ideal and an urgent goal for most Democrats. But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare....
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
That time has passed : The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering meadow of their own lavish federal health plan. Jack London would have looked at that sentence and deemed it overwrought. Then he would've reconsidered, thrown in a few King James -quoting cavemen and declared it a masterpiece. But Jack London...
Pirate's Cove (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Welcome to Liberal World: Pelosi’s victory for women Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend. In shoving her controversy-plagued healthcare reform bill to victory by a paper-thin margin, she conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in [...]
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Camille Paglia’s Salon weekly Salon column seems a product of a different time. One of the consequences of this is that she neglects to provide links sourcing some of the more bizarre claims she makes. At the same time, Paglia’s ideologically-applied contrarianism leads her to make quite a few of these bizarre statements. Her columns read like a caricature of media attempts to be “objective”...
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