Chad Taylor on technology and the curse of “upgrades”. Money quote:
I don’t need the web to find out what I already know. If it’s online I'm grown-up enough to look at it. I want my laptop to work like a typewriter and my phone to work like a phone and my camera to have shutter speed and aperture and focus: if I need to get closer to the subject I can walk there. I would just like things to function. And I would like to not be thinking about this. The only reason I am is that there’s writing I need to get done. Whatever happened to welcome distractions?
Nicholas Reid has a good go
at Frank Sargeson. It’s up close and personal.
Questions we can answer: Are
Govt spin doctors writing Stuff’s headlines? No. But how refreshing to see Fairfax
newspapers accused of being right-wing and in the thrall of the Nats: roll over
Rod Oram and tell Anthony Hubbard the news. Perhaps if those on the right think
that Fairfax writers are all lefties, and those on the left think they are all
righties, they may be, on balance, balanced. Well, not Michael Laws, obviously.
The little mermouse.
Finally, via Word magazine, proof that Marcel Proust invented air guitar
120 years ago. The photographer is unknown; the caption here reads, “Marcel
Proust et ses amis au tennis du boulevard Bineau (au centre Jeanne Pouquet),
1892”:
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