On why he had to leave The Colbert Report: “I still enjoyed it, but to model behavior, you have to consume that behavior on a regular basis. It became very hard to watch punditry of any kind, of whatever political stripe. … To change that expectation from an audience, or to change that need for me to be steeped in cable news and punditry, I had to actually leave. I had to change.” (includes plenty of video clips)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.27.15
Slim Gaillard (Oroony)
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-27
Raphael’s no Angel, but it’s not because he’s Jewish
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-08-27
So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-27
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‘Born To Run’ At 40: Bruce Springsteen And The Fading Of The American Dream
“Lost amid popular memories of kitsch – of waterbeds and pet rocks, mood rings and self-help books – is the story of a more complicated decade. The enduring sway of Born to Run isn’t just thanks to the music, which stands up strongly, four decades later. It stems also from the unique time and place in which Americans first came to know Bruce Springsteen.”
When A Snuff Film Becomes Unavoidable: Social Media And The Virginia TV Shootings
This is why Twitter and Facebook shouldn’t make video play automatically.
Thieves Dressed As Tourists Steal Rodin From Museum In Broad Daylight
Two men walked into the Rodin Room at the Ny Carlsberg Glypoteket museum in Copenhagen, walked right up to The Man with the Broken Nose, put it in a bag, and left – apparently unnoticed by guards and other museum-goers.
Duke Freshmen Refuse To Read ‘Fun Home’ Because It’s ‘Pornographic’
Said one of the scandalized young fellas, “the nature of Fun Home means that content that I might have consented to read in print now violates my conscience due to its pornographic nature.” Explained another, “I would [also] not have read the book if the pictures were of heterosexual intercourse.”
‘Fun Home’ Is Not Porn, And The Duke Refuseniks Know It
“He wants us to believe, in other words, that he was turned off by a handful of panels in a comic with thousands of them. Grasso’s vague word choice [in his larger argument] suggests that he knows how ridiculous this objection really is.”
How Jonathan Franzen Became America’s Leading Public Moralist
“Do you love Jonathan Franzen? Does America? Does the world? These questions sound ridiculous, but they’re the ones Franzen has been posing over the past two decades, as he has, against long odds, made himself the kind of public figure about whom they aren’t entirely ridiculous or even unusual.”
A 17th-Century Female Artist You’ve Never Heard Of (No, We Don’t Mean Artemisia)
Like Artemisia Gentileschi, Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684) was the daughter of a respected painter. But she developed a successful career in her own right, painting both sacred and secular subjects, in Counter-Reformation-era Portugal.
Poignant Short Stories Composed Entirely Of Example Sentences From The Dictionary
Yes, there’s a Tumblr for them – the brainchild of Jez Burrows. “The best part, though, is how existentially moving these stories become. Burrows creates recipes (where he features the aforementioned gallons of blood) and poignantly moving confessionals that turn on their head with the last sentence.”