Posts Tagged with "Andersen"

Spy and Kong

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]

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News of the day…

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

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Apparently cartoonist Aaron MacGruder struck a nerve at the recent birthday celebration for The Nation. The Boondocks creator said that the American left-wing should “be mean” if necessary, doing whatever it takes to win power. He even–horrors!–castigated Gore for losing in 2000. “Noble failure is not good enough,” he said. He’s right. Let’s get rid [...]

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Interesting Interview with Kurt Andersen…

Friday, April 25, 2003

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is here (it’s dead as of 2011, but it’s on Kurt Andersen’s Wikipedia page, so maybe it’s not really dead?). Down near the bottom they talk about why American magazines are so terrible, which as any reader of this blog knows, is because they make their money by pleasing advertisers, not by pleasing readers. American magazines [...]

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