{"id":1713,"date":"2009-03-23T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2009\/03\/notes_from_nowhere\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:31:04","slug":"notes_from_nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/03\/notes_from_nowhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Notes From Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As boring to watch as a space walk,&#8221; a friend said about Barack Obama&#8217;s latest round of media appearances, including the best one Sunday night, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/03\/18\/60minutes\/main4873938.shtml\">&#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;<\/a> Paul Krugman, whose wisdom I also trust, is worse than bored this morning. He&#8217;s filled &#8220;with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/opinion\/23krugman.html?_r=2&#038;ref=opinion\">a sense of despair<\/a>.&#8221; Krugman has been feeling that way for some time now. <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/21\/more-on-the-bank-plan\/\">Here&#8217;s why<\/a>. <strong>Postscript:<\/strong> 4:38 p.m. &#8212; Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Dow-up-nearly-500-on-bank-apf-14720049.html\">Dow rally<\/a> notwithstanding.<br \/>\n<strong>PPS:<\/strong> March 25 &#8212; Continuing right along, here&#8217;s Tuesday night&#8217;s prime-time press conference:<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"191\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/29868003#29868003\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">.msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: left; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} <\/style>\n<p class=\"msnbcLinks\">Visit msnbc.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Say what you will &#8212; that he is the Professor Prez or the Puppy-Dog Prez or the Pragmatic Prez &#8212; it&#8217;s more than obvious that Obama is a huge reprieve from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/jim_holts_criti.html\">Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/a> whose head was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2007\/01\/time_for_him_to.html\">stuck so far up his ass<\/a> he sounded like the <a href=\"http:\/\/realitystudio.org\/texts\/naked-lunch\/talking-asshole\/\">talking asshole<\/a> with a Texas twang. &#8220;&#8230; a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell,&#8221;  as William Burroughs once wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedlunch.org\/\">&#8220;Naked Lunch.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhapsody.com\/playlistcentral\/playlistdetail?savePlaylistMode=true&#038;title=&#038;tracks=tra.525981\">Listen to Burroughs tell you all about it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As boring to watch as a space walk,&#8221; a friend said about Barack Obama&#8217;s latest round of media appearances, including the best one Sunday night, on &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221; Paul Krugman, whose wisdom I also trust, is worse than bored this morning. He&#8217;s filled &#8220;with a sense of despair.&#8221; Krugman has been feeling that way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-rD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}