The Best of Tynan’s Anger
In the midst of reshuffling the purpose of this blog, I have decided to provide a neat little summary of where it has been from 2008-Present:
Major Features:
The Top 10 Quotes from English-language Drama This Decade:
- Part One: Quotes 10-6
- Part Two: Quotes 5-3
- Part Three: Quotes 2-1
Rock N Roll Case Studies:
- #1: So This is Girl Power: Rock 'n' Roll as Defined By Hillary Clinton's Democratic Convention
- #2: “Hot Topic is the way that we rock”? How Le Tigre and MC Lars address the Adorno problem.
- #3: Holy Shit! Holy Shit! Holy Shit! The Jesus Lizard is getting back together!
- #4 Thoughts on the Day Ron Asheton Died
How to Save Theater Criticism
- Part One: No Sex for the Critic: Why theater critics are not normal people
- Part Two: Would Kenneth Tynan Twitter? Theater as the ultimate digital diversion.
- Part Three: What is to be done
- How America Failed Theater: Theater from a Business Perspective
- Bush is not Batman!
- The Dark Side of Internet Dumb-ocracy
- Neil LaBute hates American theater, and sounds immature doing so
- How Michael Riedel is killing theater criticism
- Is hipsterism dead? Or was it already dying?
Prominently Linked/Commended Posts:
- Was Mark Prior's downfall the fault of Dusty Baker, or incompetent doctors?
- Rock ‘N’ Roll Case Studies #3 Holy Shit! Holy Shit! Holy Shit! The Jesus Lizard is getting back together! “Nice post, Ethan. You've gone to my head and made me feel all swooshy. –David Wm. Sims, bassist for The Jesus Lizard.”
- Tom Stoppard discusses Chekhov, the media, democracy, and the theater with David Remnick at BAM
- What Sweet Search has to say about the future of SEO
- The Don Hall/Mike Daisey/Scott Walters/Adam Thurman debate
- New Stanislavski translation: RTFM, Actors!
- "[Ethan Stanislawski is] the best-named theatre blogger in the 'sphere" Kelly Nestruck, The Guardian
And yet, the most trafficked individual post:
Gerard Butler Not Into the Whole Celebrity Gossip Thing
Labels: Blog, hipsters, how theater failed america, how to save theater criticism, links, michael riedel, rants, rock 'n' roll case studies, top theater quotes of the decade
posted by Ethan Stanislawski @ 4/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
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