Glenn Beck on The Coming Insurrection here.
Archive for the ‘humour’ Category
10
May
Laura’s started a blog about caricatures, looking at contemporary chaps what draw (Steve Bell, for example) and auld fellas from years ago (Daumier, for one). Expect a post on why noted pioneer of photography, Nadar, was also an underrated cartoonist, and other engaging tales from mid-19th century Paris. Read her blog here.
02
Jul
A while ago I wrote an article about a visit to the house the Marx Brothers grew up in, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Since then, some of the block the house stands on has been demolished with a view to building a seven storey apartment building, and a group has formed to campaign for the preservation of the house (they linked to my article, and that’s how I found out about the story). Woody Allen’s written a letter about the issue, calling for the preservation of the building
because the Marx Brothers are among the great comic artists in history, their accomplishments are revered internationally and in countries that place a high value on cultural contributions as opposed to simply bulldozing things in the name of progress, the Marx Brothers home would remain standing and affixed with a plaque.
Quite. There’s also a NY Times article about it here.
15
Feb
…is what John Updike’s review in the New Yorker of Flann O’Brien’s Complete Novels should be called. Read it here.
