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The LA Weekly that comes out today is all Best of L.A. features -- nothing else. There's the usual roundup of best burger, best shopping and best place to pay someone to teach you about giving blow jobs. Plus the Best L.A. Novel, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood; Best Public Space, the L.A. Central Library; and Best Lost Literary Classic, Flutter of an Eyelid by Myron Brinig. David L. Ulin also recommends:
Best Literary Startup: First Cut BooksAs a bookstore, especially an online bookstore, First Cut doesn’t offer many titles, but what it has ranges from the poetry of Pablo Neruda to Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Dave Hickey’s Air Guitar. Works are on the roster because they mean something to owner Lucia Silva. Yet if that makes for an idiosyncratic standard, it’s one we like. The same can be said of First Cut’s initial foray into publishing — a literary journal called Filthy, devoted entirely to the art of baseball pitching. If there’s a knock on First Cut, it’s that it exists too much in the shadow of McSweeney’s, a connection Silva encourages with homages and links. Still, in a publishing culture as homogeneous as this one, McSweeney’s isn’t a bad model to aspire to. And by flying in the face of conventional wisdom, First Cut already knows how to stand on its own. www.firstbooks.com
That's because cunnilingus is disgusting.
Umm, my vaginaphobia acting up again.
Posted by: Luke Ford at October 16, 2003 11:49 AMWhile the article on the BJ class seemed to imply it was for women only, why not guys too? As for my favorite boudoir activity, why not a class for cunning linguists? I know, no man will admit he needs instruction in the amorous arts, but if some entrepreneurial sex ed maven were to dub it an "advanced" class, you would probably get a few sign-ups. Maybe there aren't the right classroom simulators available...
Posted by: Ian R. Beste at October 16, 2003 11:55 AMThis is the best Best of LA the Weekly has put out in some years. It seems more, well, L.A. than previous editions, actually has some useful Bests and manages to have several that come across as more than pandering to/fishing for advertisers. It's also the best-looking issue in quite a long while. The illustrations are beautiful. The glossy cover and binding and overall good print quality and color reproduction made my mouth water, but I'm just a little fetishistic about such things.
Speaking of which... Guys, just follow the advice of Sam Kinison: lick the alphabet. That will be $100.
Eric, thanks. I only saw it online but now I'm definitely going to find a print copy just to see the design. Sounds nice. The website has been played with too, though I can't tell yet if it's just for this issue or for real.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at October 18, 2003 02:27 AM
of LA Observed
I think the LA Weekly should be held to a higher standard. Having a best Blow Job class and not having an equivalent best-of-category for men is not fair and balanced.
Posted by: Carl Hanson at October 16, 2003 10:16 AM