Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master”

By Noah Millman • September 21, 2012, 6:05 PM

I saw the movie last night; my review is up on Millman’s Shakesblog. Please check it out.

As an aside: when I first joined TAC, I had a notion that it made sense to put “back of the book” and “front of the book” stuff separate. So, my theatre reviews and other coverage of the arts has all been posted at Millman’s Shakesblog, while everything else has appeared here.

But we’ve now got four bloggers on the front page, and at least one of them will inevitably do a whole lot more blogging about culture than he will about current affairs. So I’m wondering: does the split still make sense? Should I put everything here, theatre reviews and election speculation and everything? Should I cross-post in some fashion? Should we create something similar to State of the Union for irregular posting on culture and the arts?

Feel free to express your thoughts on this no-doubt thrilling subject in comments.

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7 Responses to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master”

Kieselguhr Kid says:

September 21, 2012 at 6:28 pm

I think you’re nuts. It’s not like it’s hard for me to scroll past whatever I don’t want to read and the particular medium doesn’t require you to split the blogs. It only makes sense to me if _TAC_ is paying you differently for different kinds of content and even then they would need to figure out some smarter way to do it (or else posts like this one would cleverly screw them). Many is the time I have wished the Shakesblog would close up shop and just move back into the main blog.
Michael Brendan Dougherty says:

September 21, 2012 at 7:03 pm

All Noah Millman in one place, I say.
rpenm says:

September 22, 2012 at 1:08 am

I use RSS feeds to access your work, so separate feeds for each are nice. But everything in one place is much better for regular browsing.
Kevin says:

September 22, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Hi, I’m a long-time reader and actually drove up to Stratford a few times, a couple years ago, because of your reviews.

You should combine the two blogs. If they’re seperate, I and maybe other people have a tendency to only read the one of them.
Church Lady says:

September 22, 2012 at 6:44 pm

I’m a casual reader, and this is the first I’ve heard that you do cultural writing as well. If you had it all in one place, I would not have overlooked that. That alone should tell you what you ought to do, if you want all your writings to be available to readers.
Peter H says:

September 23, 2012 at 12:02 pm

Another vote for all in one place.

Separate blogs was recently caught on tape saying that 47 percent of internet users are too incompetent to use RSS feeds.
Al-Dhariyat says:

September 24, 2012 at 9:36 am

Yet another vote for all in one place. Life’s a mish-mash.