"I went and saw
Iron Man 2 today, pretty good, I read
Anathem too, yeah, not bad, I think, and I finally managed to work though those last two seasons of
The Wire": few personal cultural blogs are interesting.
with hidden noise is different. The blog of Dan Visel of the
Institute for the Future of the Book, it covers, regularly and in depth, reading material that's genuinely fascinating and often surprising — and he actually cares, seriously, about culture.
Some of the books covered include Nicholson Baker's
U and I, Aeschylus'
The Oresteia, Jean-Philippe Toussaint's
Self-Portrait Abroad and Donald Barthelme's
Paradise. (Also, his
immortal review of ulillillia's
The Legend of the Ten Elemental Masters, though it's not on this particular blog cannot be missed.)
posted by colinmarshall
on Jun 11, 2010 -
24 comments
Tokyo Times is an insightful, well-written blog dedicated to Japanese culture, books, current affairs, news, sex, random images and observations of life, as seen through the eyes of an English expat living in Tokyo.
posted by darkstar
on Jun 18, 2005 -
13 comments
reBlog -- A web site republishing the best blog posts on art, technology and culture from around the web. Brought to you by
Eyebeam, a multimedia atelier here in NYC, and run by a rotating cast of reBloggers.
posted by amberglow
on Feb 29, 2004 -
6 comments
