{"id":96958,"date":"2016-04-14T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96958"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:15:26","slug":"i-spent-300-on-a-t-shirt-last-week-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/i-spent-300-on-a-t-shirt-last-week-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Spent $300 on a T-shirt Last Week, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96960\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96960\" class=\"wp-image-96960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882.jpg 1882w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1882-1024x837.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simon Hanselmann. Photo: Fantagraphics, via the<i>\u00a0Guardian.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Need a morning pick-me-up? Say it with me: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/apr\/14\/simon-hanselmann-interview-megg-mogg-and-owl?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">I am full of impulses to shove animal matter into my poorly designed facial rot hole \u2026 I must endlessly defecate. I need to fuck. I need to be fucked. It\u2019s fantastic and terrifying. Fascinating. Pointless, swirling molecules. But, yeah, having a fun time. I spent $300 on a T-shirt last week<\/a> \u2026 People are horrible. People are cruel. People are abused. Social circles, especially in small towns, can get fucking nasty. I just write what I see and what I\u2019ve experienced. I don\u2019t deliberately set out to aggravate or shock. I don\u2019t censor myself. You need to be honest. You need to not hold back. I hate twee art. I find it dishonest; a false, privileged construct. Life is not nice. Existence is sad and cruel.\u201d That\u2019s Simon Hanselmann, the author of the cult comic series <em>Megg, Mogg and Owl<\/em> and a dealer in hard truths.<\/li>\n<li>If you prefer your truths a little softer, or maybe just leavened with bons mots, you could try Dorothy Parker. Or maybe not. Robert Gottlieb reminds us that her quips and flair concealed an enormous sadness: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/07\/brilliant-troubled-dorothy-parker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Death and suicide are never far from her thoughts\u2014she titled her collections <em>Enough Rope<\/em>, <em>Sunset Gun<\/em>, <em>Death and Taxes<\/em>, and <em>Not So Deep as a Well<\/em><\/a> \u2026 Was her poetry just rhyming badinage dressed up as trenchant, plaintive ruminations on love, loss, and death? Her subjects are serious, but her cleverness undercuts them: there\u2019s almost always a last line, a sardonic zinger, to signal that even if she <em>does<\/em> care, the more fool she. Even her most famous couplet\u2014\u2018Men seldom make passes \/ At girls who wear glasses\u2019\u2014bandages a wound, although plenty of men made passes.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Paintings look great in galleries, but I find that they really shine, in all their subtlety, when they\u2019re hanging behind politicians at podiums. As Kelly Grovier writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160412-the-secret-symbols-politicians-use\" target=\"_blank\">The silent stare of a poised portrait gazing at you over the shoulder of David Cameron or Vladimir Putin is often more loaded and more deliberately orchestrated than you might think<\/a> \u2026 Obama\u2019s decision to hold a press conference announcing his determination to close Guantanamo once and for all in the shadow of a swashbuckling portrait of Obama\u2019s forebear, Theodore Roosevelt, was hardly accidental. After all, Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1898 led a legendary cavalry of so-called \u2018Rough Riders\u2019 to victory against Spanish overlords in Cuba, helped establish U.S. control over Guantanamo Bay in the first place. By placing himself visually alongside a heroic portrait of the galloping leader, who is credited with the credo \u2018speak softly and carry a big stick,\u2019 Obama hoped to bask in the reflected testosterone of America\u2019s most macho president.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bad news: most book reviewers do their jobs hastily and carelessly. Good news: <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/the-art-of-the-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Copleston\u2019s 1807 satire \u201cAdvice to a Young Reviewer, with a Specimen of the Art\u201d really holds up, because book critics are still using the same set of shortcuts and white lies<\/a>. \u201cIn the art of reviewing I would lay down as a fundamental position,\u201d Copleston writes, \u201cwhich must be the mainspring of all your criticisms\u2014<em>write what will sell<\/em>.\u201d He also recommends perusing the table of contents and the index: \u201cHere then is a fund of wealth for the Reviewer, lying upon the very surface; if he knows anything of his business, he will turn all these materials against the author, carefully suppressing the source of his information, and as if drawing from the stores of his own mind, long ago laid up for this very purpose. If the author\u2019s references are correct, a great point is gained; for, by consulting a few passages of the original works, it will be easy to discuss the subject with the air of having a previous knowledge of the whole.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Larry Clark and Harmony Korine\u2019s <em>Kids <\/em>is more than twenty years old now. Moira Weigel blew the dust off her old VHS and took another look: \u201cAt the time, the press hailed <em>Kids<\/em> as \u2018raw,\u2019 \u2018frank,\u2019 \u2018honest,\u2019 and \u2018gritty\u2019\u2014all adjectives that boasted of its fidelity to the realities of kids just a little older than me. I couldn\u2019t judge for myself since I never got around to seeing it. Watching it now, at thirty, those words still seem apt for describing something important about the film. But that something is not its realism \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/thepointmag.com\/2016\/criticism\/kids\" target=\"_blank\">What I feel most, watching <em>Kids<\/em> in 2015, is that it is shallow. I mean this partly as praise. The shallowness is the key to the film\u2019s ability to transport us into the world of its characters, as if participating in their refusal to think of consequences, to look beyond the here and now<\/a> \u2026 The problem is that <em>Kids<\/em> reproduces the superficiality that makes it so stylistically compelling in its approach to its subject matter. Watching it today, I was hoping for an account of the ways that the fear of <small>AIDS<\/small> shaped how young people in that time and place learned about desire. Instead the film recasts the virus into the threat lurking in the background of a kind of nightmare fairy tale. The role that HIV plays is to give a sense of momentum to what is basically an observational essay.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a morning pick-me-up? Say it with me: \u201cI am full of impulses to shove animal matter into my poorly designed facial rot hole \u2026 I must endlessly defecate. I need to fuck. I need to be fucked. It\u2019s fantastic and terrifying. Fascinating. Pointless, swirling molecules. But, yeah, having a fun time. 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