Hood Utilitarian – the metabunker https://metabunker.dk by matthias wivel & friends Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:14:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Back at HU! With Daniel Clowes https://metabunker.dk/2016/02/16/back-at-hu-with-daniel-clowes/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:02:59 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=6691
So today I made kind of a comeback. I’m back at the Hooded Utilitarian, where I haven’t posted for almost three years. Not because I haven’t wanted to, but because I’ve found it difficult to find the time to write something that lives up to the content generally provided at the site and, frankly, the work I myself put into my writing there way back when. Naturally, that’s not a useful frame of mind, so I just decided to go ahead and write a short review of Daniel Clowes’ new book, Patience, which I enjoyed a lot.

Patience came out in Denmark just before Christmas in advance of its US release next month, so I thought what the heck — if nothing else, I can maybe help start a conversation on what I think is a challenging and fun book. Go here and check it out.

I am not promising to start writing regularly for HU just yet. Again, not because I wouldn’t love to, but well, because I still can’t shake this self-imposed pressure to write something good.

]]> Picks of the Week https://metabunker.dk/2011/02/28/picks-of-the-week-84/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:04:23 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=2775

The picks of the week from around the web.

  • Eagleton on Hobsbawn on Marxism. Three-in-one. What’s not to like?
  • Kirb Your Enthusiasm. HiLowbrow is currently running a relay series on Jack Kirby, with 24 writers, artists and critics each writing about one panel of choice from The King. Good contributions from Gary Panter, Ann Nocenti, and Greg Rowland. Bonus: 4cp is running a suitably fetishistic series of 70s panels concurrently.
  • James Romberger on Jules et Jim. Excellent analysis of Truffaut’s masterpiece as a political film.
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