Criticism

Entries Tagged as 'Criticism'

Poo Critic Gets Second Wind on Twitter

June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Criticism, High-Mindedness, MISC

In this whirlywoo world of social networking, blogging, vlogging, Facebooking, Googly mapping, tweeting, twittering, twitting, twatting, and twanging, the role of the critic has been thrown into question. Why, the argument goes, should one bother reading 400 whole words from a film critic like Roger Ebert when that same one can get a nifty 140-character review in literally seconds? As media outlets continue to downsize, those few writers who can eek out a living as critics are asked to do twice as much work for half the money. But against all odds, one critic has managed to harness the possibilities of Internet to serve his critical impulses.

Like so many critics, Craig Whinerose’s beat is poo. A graduate of the journalism program at New York University, Whinerose quickly established a name for himself as one of the top poo critics in America, soon netting bylines in The Village Voice, Spin, Turd Aficionado, Better Bowls and Bowels, Shit! Magazine, American Defecator, Poop Scoop, and Harper’s.

Obnoxious Twentysomething Acquaintance Starts Getting It

May 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Bros, Criticism, High-Mindedness

In a development as unbearable as it is overdue, a local twenty-five-year-old acquaintance of yours starting getting it recently. Citing a newfound interest in punk rock music, Noam Chomsky, and the ineptitude of the Bush II administration as foundational to her new, gratingly mid-adolescent worldview, this friend of your roommate’s friend has been halting otherwise [...]

To The Editors of The New Berliner

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Criticism, Germany, Politics

Dear Editors,
I am writing to you re: a recent editorial cartoon published in the Saturday evening edition of The New Berliner. On page 43 [dreiundveirzig], a cartoon attributed to staff illustrator Joe Himmel depicted our most esteemed ruler, emperor, and Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen, Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht [hence, Wilhelm II or, [...]

ABSOLUTE FLOOZLEBOP! : A Collection of Film Reviews from TL's Most Esteemed Film Critics

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Criticism, Movies, SKETCHES

Autumn Sonata (1978)
Jasper Wren (***): The last chime in the knell of this ebbing film cycle. With searing close-ups that portray an unprecedented depth, we as viewers are scuba-divers plundering the undiscovered recesses of the ocean floor of emotion. The prediliction for psychological clarity is audacious, impudent, and at times, downright brave. A certified bravo [...]

Metacommentary Ruins Party

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Criticism, High-Mindedness, News

(New Brunswick, NJ) A perfectly good social gathering was spoiled Friday night when Rutger’s University sophomore Steven Conolly disrupted a party at a high school friend’s Bayard St. apartment. Conolly and several others were gathered at friend Andrew Temple’s bachelor apartment, allegedly streaming an episode of The Duel II on MTV.com, when Conolly let slip [...]

THIS WHOLE TOWN STINKS

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Criminal Crooks, Criticism

Something ain’t right in this town. Place even smells funny.
It was about six months ago that I blew into the Windy City. I had just escaped the draft up from Butt, Montana. But made a foul and had to spend some time in the can. Hadn’t been in the place long before I caught wind [...]

Old Tymey Moving Picture Critick Thawed Out to Consider Machinima

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Computing, Criticism, Movies

Commentary by John Andrew Semley, Esq.
Former Entertainments Editor, The New York Herald-Tribune (ca. 1912-1919)
When a staff of peculiarly-attired androgynes awoke me from my near half-centurie long cryonic sleep this week past, and shuffled me with haste in top-coat and hat into a motorized taxicab and into the offices of a cross-town news-paper, I knew [...]

Grad student’s ice cream flavours rejected by Food Network’s “Scoop!” contest

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Corporate Literature, Criticism, Food, High-Mindedness

To Whom It May Delight,
I am writing w/r/t your fascinating contest, whereby your speciality cable network has invited an openly democratic selection of the latest Haagen-Dazs ice cream novelty. As an applicant to the M.A. programme in Social and Political thought at York University with a B.A. (Honours) in General Studies at McGill University, and [...]

FUCKING WITHOUT FRICTION: WHY YOU SHOULD TRY NOT TO LIKE CALIFORNICATION

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Criticism, Television and TV

Californication is a television series on Showtime, or HBO 1.5. It stars David Duchovny as a just-famous-enough writer, sporting crumpled but tasteful black clothing, interesting sunglasses, and never-ending hangover-sarcasm. The opening scene of the pilot is him getting blown by a nun. Of course, he wakes to find that this was just [...]

HOW TO GET A B- IN AN UPPER-LEVEL CRITICAL THEORY SEMINAR

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Advice, Criticism, High-Mindedness

Fourth Year. Senior Year. Year of the Rat; far from the first-year proles in the echoing cattle-chamber that was Introduction to Cultural Studies. Time to do good works, mind-trooper. You are now an epistemological apostle, teasing some practical application out of the grayer areas of political and philosophical morality.
Actually, fuckwit, your life is [...]

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