Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

Gehry: "Why does everyone think I'm an extravagant has-been? Oh, right."
Linked to here, a short article about how architect-celebrity Frank Gehry recently had to lay off half his global staff, but with a quote at the end I couldn't help making fun of, regarding Gehry's perplexity over how he could possibly come to be known as an extravagant showoff whose time in the national spotlight has passed. Gee, a whimsical devotee of the intellectually bankrupt Deconstructionist movement, who pooped out a whole series of cartoonish, mall-like half-billion-dollar structures during the culturally empty '90s and '00s, now thought of as an extravagant showoff whose time in the national spotlight has passed? How -could- that have possibly happened, Frank?

Blockbuster hires bankruptcy experts, denies it will be declaring bankruptcy
Did you hear? Video-rental service Blockbuster, whose stock plummeted to 22 freaking cents a share last week, has hired bankruptcy specialist lawfirm Kirkland & Ellis to do "restructuring" work for them, but is denying that they will be filing for bankruptcy. Mm-hmm. Expect an announcement of Blockbuster's bankruptcy by the end of the month.

Three senior MySpace executives quit in same week
In case you didn't already hear, two vice presidents and the COO of MySpace resigned from their jobs this week; and as industry watchdog TechCrunch reports here, usually when this many executives quietly quit in such a short period of time (especially in the middle of bad economic times), it almost always means that trouble is brewing at the company behind the scenes, news the public won't hear about for several more months. Remember, this is how we first learned as well about all the troubles at Yahoo -- not from bad things actually happening at Yahoo at first, but rather a whole string of executives quitting months before the bad news became public.

BBC: "Ha-ha, no, seriously, is Limbaugh in charge of GOP or not?"
Okay, picture this scenario: a charismatic yet dangerously sociopathic media celebrity, who has convinced millions of angry, uneducated thugs to hang on his every word, deeply critical of the people in charge of his own political party, after massive incompetence in the face of a strong and united liberal opposition. Yeah, you say with a chuckle, sounds like that clown Rush Limbaugh, right? But as the BBC points out today, you can state the exact same things about Hitler in the 1920s, after the publication of "Mein Kampf" but before the dissolution of the Weimar-Era liberal socialists running Germany between the wars. That's always the problem with despots, they say, is that it's easy to dismiss such clowns and drunken uneducated masses until they've actually taken over and it's too late to do anything about it. And the British happen to know a little f-cking bit about the dangers of ignoring clownlike despots, so maybe it's time we start paying a little attention. You think?

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