Year in Review
Posted on December 21, 2005 by Tito
It was a banner year at BMK, including the addition of the brains of this operation, Dave – a long lost friend who tracked me down via a comment I left at brooklynvegan.com. Go figure. Thusly, in the spirit of looking back, I give to you my latest no thought required “content”, as first seen at Ed’s. The game? Construct a post comprised of the first sentence of each month’s post from 2005. It’s no Calvino, but then again Calvino’s no Perez, so suck on this:
Scott at Conversational Reading had this nugget in last week’s post regarding William Gass’ essay “The Medium of Fiction”: “Aside from a disconcerting resemblance to Billy Crystal, there was nothing about him that would make you want to draw a swastika on his head.” While I no longer live in Nebraska, I’m glad to see that Ernie Chambers is still fighting the good fight in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature*. Camille Paglia is interviewed at bookslut, discussing her new book Break, Blow, Burn. …but turns out, the correct nomenclature is “Co Fucking Chella”. If you’re like me–which you no doubt are–somewhere along the way you probably threw a few dollars in BMG’s direction, succumbing to the allure of the 8-fer-1 with nothing more to buy ever. Apparently Iran’s president-elect bears a striking resemblance to one of the ringleaders in the 1979 seizure of the American embassy in Tehran. Sure, you may look like Ernest Hemingway, but do you look like Kenny Rogers? Some have blamed the tragedy in the Bayou on New Orleans’s notorious lifestyle tolerance. It may be because I am an eternal optimist, but I came home to see the Saturday night live guests tonight and I got a warm fuzzy feeling: two years ago, the Dixie Chicks were basically driven into obscurity after a comment; today Kanye West is everywhere. True. Let it never be said anger won’t get you anywhere.
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