{"id":107538,"date":"2017-02-08T09:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107538"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:47:30","slug":"i-hate-my-valentine-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/i-hate-my-valentine-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate My Valentine, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107539\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nervedestroyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107539\" class=\"wp-image-107539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nervedestroyer.jpg\" width=\"705\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nervedestroyer.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nervedestroyer-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cOh look at me I\u2019m so cool with the piano\u201d: a Vinegar Valentine.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irwin Corey, the soi-disant \u201cWorld\u2019s Foremost Authority\u201d who spent much of the twentieth century declaiming on this and that with an inexhaustible reserve of faux pomp, has died at 102, thus bringing an end to one of the greatest fusions of comedy and performance art. T. Rees Shapiro\u2019s obituary recalls Corey\u2019s brightest\u00a0literary moment\u2014when he served as a stand-in for Thomas Pynchon. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/obituaries\/Irwin-Corey-102-comic-who-styled-himself-as-the-Worlds-Foremost-Authority-has-died.html\" target=\"_blank\">His career reached its peak of absurdity in 1974 when he was called upon to accept the National Book Award on behalf of the reclusive author Thomas Pynchon for the novel <em>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Corey gave a wandering acceptance speech on behalf of Pynchon, offering thanks to Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger\u2014whom Corey called the \u2018acting president of the United States\u2019\u2014and author Truman Capote. Since Pynchon had never made a public appearance, many in the audience assumed the prattling Corey to be the mysterious author. (Corey did not, in fact, know Pynchon, but they had mutual friends who arranged the comedian\u2019s book-award talk.)\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some traditions are born great; some achieve greatness; and some have greatness thrust upon them. I think the American people should thrust greatness upon vinegar valentines, a once-prospering Victorian tradition in which people sent anonymous, hateful little poems to their enemies on Valentine\u2019s Day. With the country more divided than ever, it falls to us to resurrect this pungent convention\u2014and to bombard those we hate, especially in seats of power, with more vinegar valentines than our fragile postal service can handle. AbeBooks has a primer on them: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/ephemera\/vinegar-valentines\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Gluttons, drinkers, hen-pecked husbands, braggarts, windbags, spinsters, sharp-tongued wives, unfaithful lovers, cowards, lazy colleagues, uncaring bosses, ugly people, fat and thin people, vain people, and stupid people<\/a>\u2014they were all fair game to folks who posted vinegar valentines. They could be delivered to enemies, or people who had treated you badly, or someone you thought needed to be brought down a notch or two. The tone of verse ranged from gentle to downright vicious and abusive.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Summer 2014 issue featured a cover and portfolio from Raymond Pettibon, the artist who got his start drawing flyers for Black Flag in the seventies. (He used to work right down the hall from us; his dog, Boo, was something of an office fixture.) Now Pettibon has a retrospective at the New Museum. Peter Schjeldahl writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/13\/the-enigmatic-art-of-raymond-pettibon\" target=\"_blank\">The images that Pettibon draws are also either borrowed or look like they are<\/a>. Comic-book characters have been a frequent source: Batman, Gumby, and the little guy from the old <em>Felix the Cat<\/em> television cartoon series \u2026 Another recurring persona is Jesus, who, in a 1990 drawing, appears on the Cross, musing, \u2018I am after eight years\u2019 hammering against impenetrable adamant, become suddenly somewhat of a success.\u2019 Pettibon\u2019s graphic style is no style, a clunky m\u00e9lange of cartooning and illustrational modes that lack honed skill and nuanced feeling. It works extremely well, appearing gauche only until you accept its service to blunt statement: manner at one with matter. Though never employing caricature, the work\u2019s effect updates a tradition of pointed grotesquerie that has roots in Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier and branches in the modern editorial cartoon: aesthetic pleasure checked by the absurdity or the horror\u2014the scandal\u2014of the subject at hand.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Virginia, dumb teen vandals dumbly vandalized an historic African American schoolhouse. Now a judge has ordered them to make\u00a0the ultimate sacrifice: they must\u00a0read thirty-five whole books, from start to finish. (The judge, whose sentencing included a solecism apparently valorizing bigotry, may want to read a few more, too.) Danuta Kean reports, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/feb\/07\/vandals-sentenced-to-read-books-about-racism-and-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\">A judge sentenced the teenagers to read the books, as well as watching fourteen films, visiting two museums and writing a research paper to encourage \u2018a greater appreciation for gender, race, religion, and bigotry\u2019 (sic) after they were caught vandalising\u00a0the Ashburn Colored School\u00a0in Virginia<\/a> \u2026 County prosecutor Alex Rueda said she had taken the step because the five were \u2018dumb teenagers.\u2019 \u2018None of the boys had any prior record. They had never been in trouble. And it was obvious that this was not racially motivated. It was more of them being stupid and not understanding the seriousness of what they had done.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A public-service announcement from Shannon Mattern: no matter how often Silicon Valley tells you otherwise, and no matter how beautifully the designed the devices are on which they\u2019re telling you otherwise, the city is not a computer. So don\u2019t treat it like one. Mattern writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/a-city-is-not-a-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019ve long conceived of our cities as\u00a0knowledge repositories and data processors, and they\u2019ve always functioned as such<\/a>. Lewis Mumford observed that when the wandering rulers of the European Middle Ages settled in capital cities, they installed a \u2018regiment of clerks and permanent officials\u2019 and established all manner of paperwork and policies (deeds, tax records, passports, fines, regulations), which necessitated a new urban apparatus, the office building, to house its bureaus and bureaucracy \u2026 It is an information processor, to be sure, but it is also more than that \u2026 <em>The city is not a computer.\u00a0<\/em>This seems an obvious truth, but it is being challenged now (again) by technologists (and political actors) who speak as if they could reduce urban planning to algorithms.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: resurrecting the tradition of Vinegar Valentines; dumb teens are sentenced to read books; cities are not computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[5931,13419,216,27169,27172,1135,11128,11794,10984,20199,4386,14679,15098,6382,27171,27170,6737],"class_list":["post-107538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-cities","tag-comedians","tag-design","tag-irwin-corey","tag-judges","tag-national-book-awards","tag-raymond-pettibon","tag-tech","tag-teens","tag-the-new-museum","tag-thomas-pynchon","tag-traditions","tag-urban-planning","tag-valentines-day","tag-valentines","tag-vinegar-valentines","tag-virginia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This February 14, Send Vinegar Valentines to Everyone You Hate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news roundup: resurrecting the tradition of Vinegar Valentines; 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