The hangdog in me would like to roll my eyes at Stacy McCain for his outbursts and general drama-queenery about BlogCon. Looked at from my point of view, Stacy needs to get over not being the popular girl. This isn’t my first blog; It’s my fifth. I have never gotten a million hits; I’ve never… Read More Blogging is Hard.
I kind of like Spike Lee as a filmmaker. Do The Right Thing is a complex tale that looks at racism and groupthink from all sides. Malcolm X is a damned interesting story about a fascinating figure who was larger than his times. And I mind a time when I really liked 25th Hour. But… Read More Spike Lee, Putting the “Twit” in “Twitter”
Look: if I was black, I would probably be angry about Trayvon Martin, too. It would bring up all that ancestral memory of days when a black man could be killed out of hand for nothing. However, I’m not black. So I’m free to say that this kind of thing: …is a bunch of racist… Read More Racism is Acceptable So Long as it’s the Right Race…
Via Stacy McCain, the former Bunny speaks unvarnished truth: “I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.” This, of course, is the point of “Reality” TV: the talentless doing nothing so as to make the lives of the reg’lar folk seem more interesting than they really are. Because if Kendra’s life is as banal… Read More Kendra Wilkinson Displays More Self-Awareness Than Most of Hollywood…
Had an MRI today, which is interesting if you’ve never lain in a giant plastic cocoon and had a machine buzz at you for ten minutes. But I can’t blog much, since I’ve got the little one, and she’s only laid down for a nap. Although she has helped Daddy grade papers.
Interesting question, and the answer is, like almost everyone in the English-speaking world. Apparently Elizabethan English was a stew of almost every conceivable accent. Which makes, sense, in a Proto-Indo-European way.
I was up until 3:30 in the morning putting together a video for my students. We’re startingThe Screwtape Letters this week, so I thought a little introduction to the Dark One was in order. It might not have taken so long if I were not such a perfectionist about these things. And if iMovie did… Read More What I Really Want is to Direct
Regected Riter is back. Has been all month, as a matter of fact. And he’s a Fire Guard.
…and according to Walter Russel Mead, even Democrats are eventually going to have to embrace this reality: Republicans and anti-blue statists will want to fix this because bad government is big government and takes a terrible toll on the economy (cumbersome procedures, bad decisions, a large and expensive staff). But smart proponents of a strong… Read More The Debt Can’t Go On Forever…
52. R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi Critics like to give bands certain arcs, and those arcs tend to conform with the rise-and-fall of tragedy. The Beatles “fell apart” due to success, the Stones jumped the shark in the 70’s, briefly re-grouped for Some Girls, and then coasted along ever since. And according to overwhelming… Read More Rating My CD’s: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Content Blues 