The There Blog

Because Gertrude Stein said "there is no there there."

Monday, January 08, 2007

Transcribe this, bitch!

From a review of that new reality show that unrealistically follows interns at Rolling Stone.

Meanwhile, the authentic experience of interning at a glossy magazine goes unexplored by the popular arts—by necessity, perhaps, as it would alienate a popular audience, only shaping up as a nightmarish hybrid of Beckett, Sade, and The Office. (It would be an epic documentary about cassette-tape transcription.)

Yes. Just, yes.