Glib, one-word response

To glib, zillion-word Camille Paglia piece, The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age.

And that word is, of course, manga.

I could support this with sales figures, and toss out the flopped/unflopped thang just to really confuse the fuck out of people, but I think that's all she deserves, really.

Apropos of nothing:

1. WILLblog: An informal companion to the public broadcasting infosphere
2. Ninth Letter: The Creative Writing Program meets the School of Art + Design at UIUC -- two programs enter, one publication leaves

3. mediageek, a web site, a radio show and a zine, available at Quimby's

4. The Bellman, recently mentioned on This Modern World for the anti-Chief sit-in

5. The Paper of Central Illinois' news and entertainment

6. Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival:

   Thursday, April 22

   (9:00 pm) Director Tim Reid will be present in person with his film Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored, which Ebert named one of the best films of 1996. It is a heart-warming, heart-breaking coming-of-age story set between the years of 1946 and 1962, as segregation slowly crumbled. Stars include Al Freeman, Jr., Phylica Rashad and Salli Richardson.

7. Boardman's Art Theatre, which will be showing (the restored) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Lars von Trier's Dogville

I'm just typing stuff, is all.