This week, in a magazine...
Even as CNN.com swallows its pride and gives idea-credit to a blog comment (more credit, it turns out, than the authoress of that comment gave her source), New York magazine steadfastly resists the idea that the MSM owes anything to the citizen'smediaarmyofbranchdavidians.
This week's Approval Matrix includes the following item (positioned on just the right side of the despicable/brilliant divide): "A Website reviews 'bardcore' porn films based on Shakespeare plots. To wit: A Midsummer Night's Cream."
A Website? A Website?! It has a name, you know. And feelings.
Of course, this doesn't even begin to address the facts that my bardcore reviews were first published in a magazine; that the idea was stolen from another magazine; that it originated with a college professor; and that this all happened four years ago. Zeitgeist is such a amorphous thing.
I've been making note of more bardcore films released since then with an eye toward writing a follow-up, but only if I can find someone willing to pay me to watch porn again. You'd be surprised how quickly it gets old when you have to take notes.
Comments
Hm, Titus Andronicus could pretty much be used verbatim, couldn't it?
Posted by: Rubrick | June 26, 2006 6:06 PM
If CNN is reading this, I just wanted to point out that those DVD covers gave me a boner. Actually, even if CNN isn't reading this.
Also, is "The Two Genitals of Verona" any good?
Posted by: Jim Treacher | June 26, 2006 6:18 PM
The real crime, here, is that Infected: Radioactive Sluts from Hell continues to elude recognition for its formally (and aerobically) complex examination of Cymbeline.
Posted by: Someone | June 26, 2006 7:15 PM
Wow, really? It's so hard to believe that sleazy cnn.com would do anything to craft a minimally entertaining story- and that sleazy Lindsay Robertson would do anything to get attention! Thank god you're keeping an eye out, because it's not like Lindsay R.'s gone to any idiot means to get attention before.
Posted by: someone else | June 28, 2006 11:23 PM
Posting a comment on an obscure blog is "doing anything to get attention"? As the bard said, ambition should be made of sterner stuff -- like my cock!
Posted by: radosh | June 29, 2006 9:22 AM