The Savage God

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All modernists assume from the start the destruction of traditional values, but unlike Dada, the others do not say so out loud. And this is neither a matter of cowardice nor of good taste, but of practical survival. Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and it its ability to create its own values.

The arts survive because artists continue to believe in the possibility of art in the teeth of everything that is anti-art. Dada, on the other hand, began by being anti-everything, including art, and ended, by the logic of caricature, by being anti-itself. Like so many of the Dadaists, Dada died by its own hand.

-- A. Alvarez, “The Savage God”

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Michael Jordan

An old MTV star, Ms. Kennedy, has written a book of her experiences, and we have been graced with an encounter she had with basketball legend Michael Jordan, in which he was apparently pretty hot to get a taste of the little starlet.

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NBA legend Michael Jordan tried to win entrance into Kennedy's vagina during a steamy dice game back in 1995 ... so says the former MTV star, who claims she was a virgin at the time.

Kennedy -- who was a huge MTV VJ back in the '90s -- details the encounter in her new book "The Kennedy Chronicles" ... explaining how she was having dinner with MJ and Russell Simmons at the Bowery Bar in NYC, when Michael broke out some dice.

Before long, Kennedy says, Jordan decided it was "time to play for something" ... and said, "If I win, you come back to my hotel room with me tonight."

Kennedy says she freaked out because she was a virgin --and imagined MJ's giant penis would "eviscerate me from the inside out" ... so she asked if they could play for Knicks tickets instead.

And that's when Jordan allegedly reminded Kennedy he had a wife -- and offered her Nets tickets as a consolation.

"Sure, he'll filet my vag like a sea bass if he won at dice on a men's room floor," Kennedy writes ... "but as soon as I want basketball tickets he's a Promise Keeper? Whatevs."

Kennedy says she won the dice game anyway -- so her vag was never in any real danger.

We reached out to MJ for comment -- so far, no word back.

-- ONTD

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91. Lorie

It had been a long time since Pop inundated the house with air-freshener. It is for Lorie. She will be the one to help Pop celebrate the Fourth. I guess she is back in play for him, as he sweetens the house for her. Pop really has surprised me in his old age. I had no idea that he had this in him. I wish I could be better about it, but I guess I have always been too tightly wound up and am rather prickly by nature with a chihuahua's trembling.

Sylvia

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Philip Larkin, Plath’s psychological opposite in virtually every respect, came closer to capturing the Plathian essence: the shocking necrophilia and refusal of life. After her brilliant yet overschooled poetic apprenticeship, wrote Larkin in a 1982 review of the Collected Poems, Plath found her real subject matter in “variously, neurosis, insanity, disease, death, horror, terror.” (He considered “Two Views of a Cadaver Room” from 1956 to be the turning-point poem.) But the insanity and horror were requisite for the overall vision; they are deep and inalienable sources of the poet’s fever dream. For Plath, Larkin suggests, to grow up was to grow madder and madder. The mania within—caustic, ever-amplifying—could not be separated from the mature work.

-- Terry Castle at The New York Review of Books

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