George R.R. Martin : derrière « Game of Thrones », il y a cet homme-là | Rue89 Culture
▻http://www.rue89.com/rue89-culture/2013/06/19/george-rr-martin-les-vies-secretes-pere-game-of-thrones-243420 #GOT via @mona
Tour à tour journaliste, objecteur de conscience pour échapper au Vietnam, écrivain prolifique mais sans le sou, il commence à bosser sur des séries télé pour remplir son frigo dans les années 80 (« La Belle et la bête », « La Quatrième Dimension »).
La série lui prend beaucoup de temps et rien ne va jamais assez vite. Dans l’attente du tome 5, des milliers de fans tuent le temps en traquant les scories et incohérences que comptent les milliers de pages et de personnages de la saga .Martin s’effraie à l’idée de se perdre dans son propre univers. Du coup, il s’entoure d’une garde rapprochée composée, entre autres, du créateur de Westeros.org. Martin raconte :
« J’écris un truc et je lui envoie un mail : “Est-ce que j’ai déjà mentionné ça avant ?” Et il me répond : “Oui, page 17, livre 4.” »
Et du coup je tombe sur ce long papier du New Yorker (avril 2011) : JUST WRITE IT ! A #fantasy author and his impatient fans.
▻http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/11/110411fa_fact_miller?currentPage=all
Dieu et les lois de la physique (dessin paru dans le New Yorker)
Cartoons from the Issue of March 4th, 2013 : The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2013/03/04/cartoons_20130225#slide=5
The rise of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
SEX AND THE SUPERBUG
►http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman?¤tPage=all&pink=GjJ6ve
Now, however, public-health experts view the Kyoto case as something far more alarming: the emergence of a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to the last drug available against it, and the harbinger of a sexually transmitted global epidemic. “The microbe appears to be emerging as a superbug,” Dr. Magnus Unemo, the head of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Gonorrhea and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, in Sweden, told me recently. “This is what we have feared for many years.
Read more ►http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman#ixzz29knyl7W3
Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea: The Sexually Transmitted Disease May Soon Become Untreatable, WHO Warns
►http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/drug-resistant-gonorrhea-sexually-transmitted_n_1573943.html
Bacteria that survive antibiotic treatment due to a mutation that makes them resistant then quickly spread their genes in an accelerated process of natural selection. This is a general problem affecting all antibiotics, but gonorrhea is particularly quick to adapt because it is good at picking up snippets of DNA from other bacteria, said Lusti-Narasimhan.
Helen Gurley Brown, Sex, and Cartoons : The New Yorker
►http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2012/08/helen-gurley-brown.html
Back then, sex was an accepted droit du C.E.O., which, as this cartoon would have us believe, was not only tolerated (note the smile on the secretary’s face) but welcomed. What we now correctly consider sexual harassment was then viewed, by Brown and many others, as a kind of fair-trade agreement.
From Brown’s Times obituary:
She went on to hold a string of secretarial jobs—17 by her own count—and discovered the measure of security that sex could bring. At every office, or so it seemed, there were bosses eager to fondle and dandle. In exchange, there might be a fur or an apartment or the wherewithal to keep her family going.
For Helen Gurley Brown, there was nothing inherently wrong with patriarchy. Any woman could benefit from it… as long as she had a friend with benefits, who was a patriarch.
Et aussi
Helen Gurley Brown: Polarizing Mix Of ’Mad Men’’s Peggy And Joan
►http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/180868/helen-gurley-brown-polarizing-mix-of-mad-mens.html
Yes, even in death, she is a polarizing figure who created a huge cultural cleavage, if you will: On the one hand, she’s seen as a sexual liberator and trailblazer, who, with “Sex and the Single Girl,” changed social mores, championing the (in some camps, still radical, and even heretical) idea that single women ought to enjoy sex and careers without benefit of a wedding ring. (Sex, sex, sex!)
On the other, she is scorned for the anti-feminist sensibility that Cosmopolitan magazine has wrought: the low-cut, big-haired look that now, ironically, is favored by “Real Housewives,” who, though mostly in their 40s, call each other “girls” and favor breast implants and hair extensions. There’s also the issue of the brilliant and manipulative cover lines, (mostly written by Helen’s hubby) imploring readers to see themselves as endless self-help projects, and tips on how to get extravagant goodies out of men. (Sex!)
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