The Corpse Riseth
I am attacked by enough zombies in daily life without having Andrei Codrescu revive Exquisite Corpse.
I loved the Corpse in the old days—the eighties—because it would publish the names of everybody who submitted. Now, of course, that's easily done—and more—online.
And I loved Andrei's great discovering-America film Road Scholar, the best film starring a litmag editor since Paper Lion. (The best play—and TV film—about a litmag editor is The Common Pursuit.) And of course I love Andrei's barely comprehensible accent on NPR.
But the new Corpse seems warmed over. Farmed out. Out of phase.
There are some things that should remain defunct.
I loved the Corpse in the old days—the eighties—because it would publish the names of everybody who submitted. Now, of course, that's easily done—and more—online.
And I loved Andrei's great discovering-America film Road Scholar, the best film starring a litmag editor since Paper Lion. (The best play—and TV film—about a litmag editor is The Common Pursuit.) And of course I love Andrei's barely comprehensible accent on NPR.
But the new Corpse seems warmed over. Farmed out. Out of phase.
There are some things that should remain defunct.
posted by Howard Junker at 7:46 AM
1 Comments:
Loved the Hank Lazer reviews in the resurrected Corpse --- at least now I know that Jake Berry is still doing the deed with his ongoing Brambu Drezi epic. And Codrescu's reference to the smells in the post-Katrina air of New Orleans was heartbreaking. Refrigerator Art indeed, and utterly damning to the powers that still be.
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