Authors, like teenage girls, hate each other, and while this is mostly banal, expressions of it can occasionally be entertaining in a mindless-drivel kind of way, rather like The Expendables or the upcoming political conventions. I would like to report that the titular letter (via Word and Film), a 1970 bit of flamebait from Burroughs… Read More William S. Burroughs’ Boring, Prophetic Hate Mail to Truman Capote
I don’t get anything about what I’ve been watching for the last few days. Maybe for the past few Olympics. Things were simpler when I was a kid, when the Olympics were nothing more than the Cold War in athletic form. It seemed to matter then; I seemed to care. But every passing of the… Read More The Olympics Make No Sense
…thus subjecting his Marin County neighbors to the kind of treatment that Star Wars fans have become accustomed to: Uber-liberal* George Lucas, thwarted in his plans to build a film studio on his 6,0000 acre ranch in Marin County, announces that he’s selling the whole place to a developer of low-income housing. His liberal neighbors… Read More George Lucas Takes His Ball and Goes Home…
I mentioned a little ways back that I was looking into the way Joseph Campbell had influenced George Lucas as a mythmaker. This is hardly news; Lucas has openly admitted his debt to Campbell. In fact, he’s rather loud about it. And this interests me. During that long, 17-year wait between Return of the Jedi and… Read More The Jedi With a Thousand Faces, Part 1
Ripping the newsblogs, and the whole profession of journalism, a new one, with the same joke. My point is that there is nothing wrong with 21st-century journalism except (a) the continued existence of the Columbia Journalism Reviewand (b) the shortage of good, cheap mescaline. And if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. IYKWIMAITYD. Journalists are… Read More Stacy McCain is Funnier Than a Chimp on Phenobarbitols
I didn’t mind The West Wing. Didn’t watch it a whole lot, but I didn’t mind it. The hero was a Democratic President, who was smart, sophisticated, and occasionally gutsy. The politics were blatant, but in a show about politics, they should have been. And Sorkin usually gave the Right its State of the Union Response.… Read More At the New York Post, Kyle Smith Affirms Everything I Could Have Expected About “The Newsroom.”
We geeks are the majority. Happy Fourth.
Sitting in a box in my basement, and before that my parents’ basement, was the last, pummeled remnant of my Star Wars childhood. There was: A Millenium Falcon, missing half the covers, decals falling off from the glue drying off. An Imperial Shuttle, with the trigger that made the noise busted, the canopy gone. A… Read More A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
At Ace’s Live Coverage thread, MSNBC has called it for Walker. Of course, the top aggregation on Memeorandum right now is about how the GOP cheated. They must have. Because Walker can’t win. Duh. UPDATE: Fox and CNN have chimed in as well.
This is why I pretty much only read Batman. Because Batman is too completely messed-up a character to have a normal sexual life, his comic is also blessely free of this kind of horsefeathers. Green Lantern sucks. I know this because I have never read it. I have never read it because it’s a dude/series… Read More Gay Green Lantern is Gay (UPDATED)
