Did you read the excerpts from the forthcoming collection of Susan Sontag's journals in the Times this past weekend? I really liked the part where she said, "Most of the interesting art of our time is boring." I agree with that a lot. I don't know if I'd say "most of," but I like a lot of boring art, and boring things, and often find myself defending the benefits of boredom. (This post could quickly devolve into a semantical discussion of the precise definition of "boredom," but I will elide that. I also liked the part in the article where Sontag said, "I don’t care about someone being intelligent," [...]

I don't like Vanity Fair. Mainly this is because I find it incredibly difficult to navigate; I'm a man who's never read any of the ad-heavy ladymags (or similar dudemags) where the table of contents starts on page 110 and then it's an obstacle course of perfume samples and pictures of shirtless, overgelled, stubble-faced guys whose gazes convey an impressive combination of "brooding" and "eye-raping" toward the female in the photo. So I've never been properly "trained" to get through that type of book. If there's something worth reading I reckon I'll hear about it and find it online, or at least go directly to the page where it starts.

"Eating the same foods, day after day, may make you so uninterested in your meals that you start eating less, a new study suggests."

UK POLICE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES IN THE AIR AGAINST BLINDING DEATH-LASERS!

Graphic Designer Bob Noorda died two weeks ago in Italy. He was 82, and, as the Times notes, he "helped introduce a Modernist look to advertising posters, corporate logos and, in the 1960s, the entire New York City subway system." When you consider how ubiquitous and helpful the MTA's color-coded Helvetica signage and maps are, not to mention all the knock-off t-shirts sold on St. Marks, and, now, the custom-made signs available for personal use, Noorda goes down with folks like Milton "I Heart NY" Glaser or Louis B. Tiffany-who designed the interlocking "N" and "Y" that would become the Yankee's logo, in 1877, originally as [...]