08.24.2009
Gary Cooper on Doodling
By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Codebreaking, Read-outs

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Here’s a postscript to Matthew Battles’ terrific meditation on doodling. In this scene, Gary Cooper gives us all permission to doodle and otherwise be “pixillated” — another word that features importantly in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

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About the author: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.

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2 Comments to “Gary Cooper on Doodling”

  1. Matthew Battles says:
    August 24, 2009 at 11:27 am

    “A funny name we made up back home…” this is terrific. Another gem from Glenn’s card catalogue of the twentieth century!

  2. Joshua Glenn says:
    August 24, 2009 at 11:29 am

    More like his Crazy Mixed-Up Files.

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