Today in culture: learn How to be Gay, what to think about Creed, and how to feel about the new season of Arrested Development. As if you didn’t already know.
-David M. Halperin’s How to Be Gay explains the foremost mystery of the modern world. Paired with Quentin Crisp’s How to Become a Virgin, it would make exquisite weekend “how-to” reading.
-The internet ain’t nice: just ask Roxane Gay…
-…who also writes about writers of color and selective reading.
-The question is: “Must we hate late ’90s Christian rock band Creed?” The answer: “Yes.”
-File under ridiculous Mitt Romney news: A group of people who call themselves ‘digital investigators’ are questioning the unlikely surge of new followers of Romney’s twitter account. Foul play? Or is everyone just in on the joke?
-They’re calling Jason Bateman’s tweets about the new episodes of Arrested Development a filthy, dirty tease…and they’re not far wrong. We await the fourth season with baited breath.
-David Mitchell discusses the polarizing tendencies of Marmite. It’s a British thing.
-Do you want to learn about Cultural Innovation and Narrative Synergy in R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” series? Yes, yes you do.
-The summer of 2012 is counterintuitive…or at least, according to the Times film critics. Decide for yourself.
-Just a few reasons why you should see The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey’s “sadistic” slapstick comedy playing at BAM’s American Gangsters series this Sunday.
-The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is on through Sunday.
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