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There aren’t many comedians who compare with George Carlin–not favorably, anyway. Normally when a comedian is described as being “a comedian’s comedian”, it’s a way of saying other comedians think that comedian’s hilarious but audiences don’t. Carlin, though, has a huge following and he’s influenced generations of comedians. In The History Channel’s special The History [...]
Copyright laws perform a valuable service, but do they also go too far? And do companies with deep pockets crack down too hard on consumers who violate copyright laws? I’m not going to pretend there are simple answers here. In the March 2008 issue of Wired, contributing editor Frank Rose has a point in his [...]
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest, most popular plays, but also, from a production perspective, one of the most difficult. Because the play is so sweepingly dramatic, because it includes witches, ghosts, swordfights, and a whole string of murders it can very easily turn from tragedy to unintentionally campy comedy. I saw a production of [...]
Once, in a discussion about zodiac signs, a friend of mine proudly declared, “I’m a Cancer, the sign of the crab. I’m two diseases nobody wants.†This was hilarious even though, in my experiences with cancer, it’s been really hard to laugh. I’ve been lucky enough to never have cancer (I’ve never had crabs either, [...]
This week’s word is heliotropism. It’s a noun that means the tendency of plants to turn towards light, particularly sunlight. The word is derived from the Greek words helios, meaning “sun” and tropos, meaning “turning”. Sunflowers demonstrate heliotropism when they turn their heads to follow the sun. Just like Vincent van Gogh and other artists who left the [...]
When poet Neal Bowers was plagiarized, some people responded by telling him he could just write another poem. This very response highlights a significant difference between the way we regard literature (or at least poetry) and other art forms, particularly films or music. And there is a significant difference: when a work of writing is [...]
The dramatic monologue is one of poetry’s most powerful forms, and in her third book of poems, Sin, the poet Ai adds to the tradition with extremely powerful but at the same time difficult dramatic monologues. The book won her an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and opens with Two Brothers, an [...]
This week’s word of the week is: gibbous. Derived from the Latin word gibbus, meaning “hump”, the word gibbous is now used almost exclusively to describe a three-quarter, or humped, Moon. Not quite as striking as either a full or crescent Moon, the gibbous Moon is still beautiful, like Artemis peeking around a veil [...]
It’s been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and, occasionally, that’s even applied to plagiarism. Actually forgery is the sincerest form of flattery because it says an artist’s name is just as valuable as their work–but that’s another story. Plagiarism isn’t any more flattering than someone taking your lunch from the office [...]
This year, 2008, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, which The Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes with an article on Achebe and his book. It’s a remarkable achievement in many respects; it’s a short, but extremely complex and powerful book by a first-time author (Achebe was a [...] |
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