Archive for the “Reviews” category
ON GIVING A FUCK (ABOUT AN OXFORD COMMA)
by Rhian Sasseen on June 3, 2012
On the train yesterday morning I stared out the window and watched Boston shutter by as I listened to Vampire Weekend’s debut for what must have been the hundred thousandth time since its release in 2008. It is now 2012 (…)
I LOVE BETTY DRAPER
by Rhian Sasseen on March 28, 2012
“The worst mother on television.” “Such a whiner.” “Boring.” “Crazy.” “What a terrible mother.” “Ugh, Betty.” Is it safe to say that Betty Draper is one of the most hated characters on television? The above comments, culled from various message (…)
FOUND BOYS
by Rhian Sasseen on March 16, 2012
We are still only beginning to enter a new era. The last decade still functions as a sort of hangover, gloomy, of things past: 2012 is only now starting to define itself in such a way that today, when I (…)
“MAKE IT NEW”
by Rhian Sasseen on March 2, 2012
All of the hype about Simon Reynolds’ Retromania a few months back annoyed me, admittedly because it seemed to me to be yet another case of an older generation commenting on and disapproving of the young. Last night, though, I (…)
THE AGE OF THE MOLE
by Rhian Sasseen on February 21, 2012
Shiina Ringo, image found via Google. Perhaps if my mother had been a better Catholic she would have kept me on track towards Confirmation, ignoring my tear-strewn face and heated opinions concerning the morality of abortion after she picked me (…)
JOAN DIDION AT HARVARD BOOKS
by Rhian Sasseen on January 24, 2012
Originally published on The Common’s blog. / Image found on Google. When I am old I will think of Boston as the city where I became young. No one knows this better than Joan Didion, to whom the East and (…)