Posted by Jason Diamond My happy spot of the day is this 1979 Joan Didion dissection of Woody Allen’s late 70s output from The New York Review of Books.
Joan Didion Pretty Much Says Blogs Are For Suckers
Posted by Jason Diamond All I got from reading this Observer piece was that Joan Didion doesn’t give a flying poop about blogs, and for me and Joan to actually be friends I need to give up blogging.
Simultaneous Kettles Boiling, Too Hot to Touch: Various Writers at Age 26
Posted by Nick Curley Today I turn twenty-six years old. It’s only been my birthday for ten hours, but so far this has proven the best year of my life. In the hopes of finding inspiration, and satisfaction for gnawing trivia, I looked up various names upon my bookshelf, to see what they were up to at/by the age of twenty-six. Let’s keep it chronological, in blocks of text: us mid-twenties types can think in lists and narratives, all at […]
Minus the Joan Didion Talk and Fabulousness
I can’t really fault Lauren Leto for figuring out how to become a millionaire by getting other people to post about their personal text messages, and her stereotyping people by what they read thing was pretty hilarious. I wish I was funny and had a million dollars. I think all the Joan Didion talk in her interview with Capital New York was a little unnecessary. Also, anything labeled as “fabulous” still makes me want to vomit, but otherwise go Lauren! […]