Thursday, January 21, 2010

Missouri Review 32.4

Essays:

Andrew D. Cohen, "Television Days"
Favorite line: "But our favorite [adult-themed cable access show] by far was Midnight Blue, whose host, a fat, hairy Jew named Al Goldstein, publisher of the infamous Screw Magazine, set the tone during the opening credits by performing cunnilingus on a dripping rack of pork ribs from Tony Roma's."

M.G. Stephens, "Francis Bacon's Studio"
Favorite thing I learned about Francis Bacon: When he was a boy, his nanny locked him in a cupboard. ("'That cupboard was the making of me,' he often said.")

2 comments:

  1. Gotta say that does make me salivate and want to read the Cohen essay. The Bacon factoid does not make me want to read about Bacon. I went to a reading earlier tonight by a poet who writes a lot about meat. Earlier in his career he wrote about bacon.

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  2. I also preferred the Cohen essay, but when you put ribs up against anyone, regardless of sex, named Francis, it's an unfair fight.

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