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...various short stories include lovingly written passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Look: Meta-Hero Worship | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...cringing standstill, especially coming right after the delicately melancholy “Thoughts for the Unknowingly Bored.” “Thoughts” is appealing in its quiet simplicity, though even in the context of a mournful ballad, A + P manages to get bitten by the meta bug again: “The best band’s onstage, and you’ll never see them,” Wilkins sings wistfully...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: A + P | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

Here’s the problem: the anthology’s meta-setup focuses on a continuously unsuccessful comic strip. So the comics cannot successfully match their respective eras’ tones—or else, the Escapist’s incarnations might be financially viable, and the project’s plot would be ruined...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plot Leaves Chabon's Escapist in a Bind | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Revision and renormalization are legitimate parts of artistic production—the artistic discourse, if you like—and I don’t see how your meta-claim that Blur was both aware of and subverting the ironic ethos of ’90s grunge makes that band any more effective. Introspection doesn’t have to be overt; not everybody can (or should) be Thom Yorke, and just because “Song 2” is an ironic song about irony doesn’t mean that Blur is any more interested in analyzing...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Drawn-Out Battle of the '90s Brit-Pop Superstars | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Opener “Song Meat” is just that: Drucker’s alchemical meta-composition of fragile lyrical fragments “which could never be songs.” Sidling into his fanciful form through a soundscape of Pole-like dub and fuzzed out guitar lines, he transubstantiates his snippets’ individual unsongness into lyrical gold. Dose sing-speaks couplets like “what’s left are fires beating off of faces” and “the bright red skeleton of a cynic” until the anthemic refrain...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New White. | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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