March 2012
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Longest-lived, currently active cultural...
Carrie Brownstein (~13 years)
If you’d told me in 2002, at the height of my mania for Sleater-Kinney, that in ten years, Carrie Brownstein would be better known and more beloved for making a sketch comedy show with a Saturday Night Live cast member than for making an album with Janet Weiss and Mary fucking Timony, I’d have probably started crying. Carrie was the one me and my friends...
Longest-lived, currently active cultural...
Patti Smith (~15 years)
I started listening to Patti Smith at around 17 or so, roughly the same time I started listening to Iggy Pop and Richard Hell and Lou Reed and all the other usual pre-punk New York groups. Yet Patti’s here on this list, and the others aren’t. The others are still “currently active” themselves, but their recent work is no longer an active influence...
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The Simpsons (~22 years)
It’s not really accurate to say The Simpsons has been a continuous cultural influence for all of the past 22 years. Though they still churn out new episodes, I haven’t really followed the show for at least a few years. I don’t really know anyone else that does, either — even my most Simpsons-obsessed friends gave up on it years ago. As far as I am concerned, they really...
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Cottage industry.
Tess Lynch posted a very lovely piece this week about her Tumblr, and why she continues to write there: “I have been writing Wipe Your Feet since 2008. In the past few years, I’ve been writing for a few other places too, but this blog will always be my favorite because I can get as weird as I want.” It made me think about what I do here.
Something that has changed dramatically since I...
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WatchIt’s the 21st Century art version of sitting you down for a timeshare sales pitch, but it’s got to be done. Please take a moment to view this short video for Salon Saloon’s Kickstarter campaign for Volume 7.
As you know, I am very proud of the work Colin, Shanai, Jake, Katie, Claire and Elliott do on the show, on a pretty shoestring budget. Kicking us a few dollars will help us...
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