The Hardest Working ‘But’ in Show Business
From The Cato Institute’s Marian L. Tupy, on yesterday’s op-ed by Slavoj Zizek:
Zizek is right to point out that there is growing disenchantment with capitalism and democracy. But, the recently released Pew and BBC polls have surely been influenced by the current (and likely temporary) economic environment, which, we are told, is the worst since the Great Depression.
I don’t know which I enjoy more, seeing Zizek in the Times or watching the Cato Institute take him on.
I’ll take “The Blackbird Whistling” for $300, Alex.
Oh, thin man of Haddam.
>Oh, thin man of Haddam.
What’s that, a line from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
I don’t get it!
> I don’t
Point: Melissa Klien.
The NYT should make him a regular columnist.
I thought the thin man was from Porlock & named William Powell!
>I thought the thin man was from Porlock & named William Powell!
Actually, could Hammet have been thinking of Stevens? After all, he got Mina Loy to star next to Powell in the film…
Bouvard and Pecuchet: the reality show
>got Mina Loy
Muldoon makes this joke in “Yarrow.”
could Hammet have been thinking of Stevens?
Next you’re going to tell me that the Maltese Falcon was a black bird. Oh wait…
>>got Mina Loy
>Muldoon makes this joke in “Yarrow.”
You’re kidding me.
I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street. It was snowing. And it was going to snow.
There are 13 ways of looking at this. Stevens was wealthy because he had bug eyes, could see out of the back of his head, a capitalist warlock. Ask Slavoj. Or, in Serbian : slavoj Ask.
Why am I doing this. Take away my points.
>You’re kidding me.
Nope. I write about it in my essay “Paul Muldoon’s Covert Operations,” forthcoming in Modern Philology (my first publication in an academic journal!). He’s writing about Arthur Cravan:
It’s Mexico, 1918, and I’m leaning out over the strake
with the inconsolable Myrna Loy,
whose poet-pugilist’s
yawl
has almost certainly sunk like a stone …
The further joke is that “Mina Loy” is a pseudonym to begin with.