I am morally certain that something has gone wrong with this sentence, which nevertheless managed to appear in the New York Times in an article about architect Marion Mahoney:
Each consists of 1,400 typed pages and nearly 700 illustrations, making the book at once too unwieldy—and too precious—for general distribution.
(In the print edition, at least, the Times' em dashes aren't flush against the words they set off, which I at least disprefer, but I suppose that reasonable persons can disagree about that.) This is very upsetting to me.
Chocolate Overdose is almost certainly the least characteristic artist on the Rune Grammofon roster, but what's nearly as shocking as its presence on the label is Whatever's release date of 1998: has Rune Grammofon actually been around that long? It's not as if I would have known. But apparently Supersilent's 1–3 came out in that year as well. This is of a piece with my generally being temporally adrift when it comes to music in the 90s. Is it really possible that Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Tilt, and Thrak all came out in 1995, that Cul de Sac's been around since 1991, and that the same Chicago that gave rise to the Smashing Pumpkins also supported Weasel Walter, the Scissor Girls, and Jim O'Rourke? I tend to imagine that none of the interesting music from the 90s could possibly have actually existed then, since it's so far removed from anything I experienced. And yet, and yet. (And still there are lacunae into which one could easily fit a stadium in my knowledge in this as in every other arena; somehow, however, if one displays familiarity with obscure, everyone will assume familiarity with the clear, no matter how many individual cases of ignorance one cops to.)
If anyone knows anything interesting about centos, particularly in connection with authorship, I would be interested in knowing about it.
The paper of record can't use the subjunctive either, which makes me cry a little on the inside.
"Lawmen found three cartridges in Lee Harvey Oswald’s nest on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Yet Zapruder’s film captured only two shots clearly. As a result, the film has been scoured for evidence of another shot, presumably the first one fired at the president. Research has yielded contradictory findings.
"But what if Zapruder simply hadn’t turned on his camera in time?"
Posted by: Sylvia | January 10, 2008 at 03:32 PM