Poisonville
Dō-Maru Gusoku Armor with Black Lacing and Three-Branched Deerhorn Helmet
Momoyama period, late 16th century
Iron, lacquer, leather, wood, papier-mâché, and silk; H. of helmet bowl: 7 in. (17.8 cm); H. of cuirass: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)
Private collection, Important Cultural Property
I saw this “important cultural property” at the Metropolitan Museum this evening. It depresses me to see well-made things locked up behind glass. But then who among us has the discipline and training to wear armor such as this? Maybe it’s all for the best.
Happy birthday, Coleman Hawkins, born 11/21/04 in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Here’s his most famous recording, “Body and Soul,” from 1939.
The first of the great jazz saxophonoists, Hawkins played with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra throughout the ’20s, alongside Louis Armstrong. Decades later he led what’s considered to be the first bebop recording, in 1944, with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach.
WKCR is celebrating with an all-day broadcast of his music, on 89.9 FM and streaming at wkcr.org.
Mayo on grilled cheese? You people cannot be serious.
It galls me that the War on Christmas is heating up well before Thanksgiving this year.
I feel like we’ve forgotten what the true meaning of the War on Christmas is all about.
And yet, as “Bad Lieutenant” shows, he remains the same Nicolas Cage of his early, later and most critically lauded career: the man of a thousand facial tics, a student of all accents and a master of none, a star who, for better, worse and sometimes both, gives us reason after reason to go the movies.
From Manohla Dargis’s appreciation of Nic Cage in Sunday’s Times
"Happy families are all alive; every undead family is undead in its own way."
Sneak peak from my new novel, Night of the Living Anna Karenina
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I’ve been cited (as “MisterHippity”) in a scholarly paper called “Gauging Ritual and Reaction on Gawker: Morality (?) and Meaning (?) in Media.” It was written by someone at Arizona State named Michael Meeder, for what I assume is some kind of grad school thesis or dissertation.
You see, after each week’s live blog I post a “moral of the episode,” which Meeder equates somehow to morality … in media … or something? I don’t know; the whole think just kind of makes my head want to explode.
Congratulations! I think this is just de-lovely.
As a copy editor, I’m immediately caught by the decision to list you in the citation as “(Hippity 2009)” even though “MisterHippity” is one word. Any thoughts?
