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other stuff in the newspaper that angered, amused, and/or made me cry: Robert Smith calls Damien Hirst the next Thomas Kincaid. That chick has got to go.

• Jonathan Lethem on The Dark Knight: we are the Joker.

Bryan Ferry: my crush endures...swells, even.

And A.O. Scott on David Foster Wallace: "He was smarter than anyone else, but also poignantly aware that being smart didn’t necessarily get you very far, and that the most visible manifestations of smartness — wide erudition, mastery of trivia, rhetorical facility, love of argument for its own sake — could leave you feeling empty, baffled and dumb."

I like flat art better than 3D art. That's why I like signs better than statues.