Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

Why I quit being an arts and entertainment blogger

And why I became an A & E writer B5media’s controversial firing of entertainment bloggers last month had the blogosphere nuts (here, here, and here) but it didn’t surprise me in the slightest. I knew some bloggers who worked and helped create b5 media, and many of them left the company right before this bombshell. They [...]

Kanye West and the Formula for New Media Disaster

Days like these are the worst days to be on the Internet. There are glaring problems with the coverage of Kanye West that I would willingly ignore if I thought they’d ever go away. So allow me to address how this story, like dozens before it, has progressed. Something shocking happens, usually on television. Either [...]

Fun times at the Guthrie

Image via Wikipedia So Tony Kushner a world-class playwright, wants the chance to develop a play like any workshop theater playwright can. He wants to do it at a major regional theater, in order to build up for the Broadway debut it deserves. The Guthrie mishandles its press release to critics. Some critics are already [...]

You Got Yr Link Bomb Merry F*cking Hanukkah Edition: Huffington Plagiarists, Ron Rosenbaum gets fascist on fascism movies, and hip-hop cannibalism

Image via WikipediaYou Got Yr Link Bomb is meant as a cross between the Will Cordero Memorial Linkpunch and the Week in Review post of the Gawker Media blog of your choice. Hence: links featuring commentary with heavily regulated snark. These links did not get the full Tynan’s Anger treatment, through no fault of their [...]

The Dark Side of Internet Dumb-ocracy

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?-Henrik Ibsen, “An Enemy of the People” The Internet, as [...]