The Thinking Man’s Sex Symbols
January 14, 2009
"M.I.A. is one of my favorite musicians right now. It would be so fun to travel the world with her, viewing life as one big art project."
I’m wondering if my blog has become stoney-faced in subject matter. Upon its creation my only intention was to have my own aperture to scream through; but I feel my subject has been curbed to antiquitous literary achievements and Andrew Bird headlines. Occasionally I insert a poem by Ezra Pound or the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup. Let’s face the music–Apocrypha In Philadelphia is an insipid, dried-up well.
Some of that insipidness changes tonight. I stumbled upon The Daily Beast’s “The Thinking Man’s Sex Symbols” while looking for book news in the New York Times. I don’t dare to say Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm would make my own top-10 catalog; but indeed M.I.A. possesses my heart’s red-letter and Jhumpa Lahiri’s gaze sends me crooning to the heavens.
