Cultural Dissociation is the new Rite of Spring

I come to the chilly end of April and realize how little of pop culture has any impact on me … Continue reading Cultural Dissociation is the new Rite of Spring

Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast

I mentioned earlier that I was going to to be redesigning the site. The idea is for it to be … Continue reading Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast

Meant to have this up sooner, but once I sat down to put it together it flowed nicely, and in … Continue reading Content Blues, the Podcast: Episode 5 – What is Indy Can Never Di

I’ve written on the Indiana Jones series before, explaining the problem I had with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. A … Continue reading An Encomium of Pankot – In Defense of Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom

Doing this fell by the wayside as I was wrapped up in bringing Caligula to market (The Kindle Countdown deal … Continue reading Content Blues, the Podcast: Episode 4 – The Lost Summer Episode

Somewhere on I-81 in Virginia, there’s a billboard for Cracker Barrel, because of course there is. If you find yourself … Continue reading The Reproducibility Trap, Or Why Everything Original and Curated Becomes Re-Heated Crap

As promised, a new episode of friendly rambling. I plan what I talk about with these, some notes I want … Continue reading Content Blues, The Podcast – Episode 3: Poems, Prose and Princes

Time for Low-Rent Clint Eastwood to Ride Again. The only question is Why, and there’s only one answer. No one … Continue reading Oh Good, a New Indiana Jones Movie

Carl Schmidt was a German jurist and political philosopher of the Weimar and Nazi eras. True to the time, his … Continue reading Doing Things For a Reason: Miller’s Crossing and the Friend/Enemy Dynamic

The joke of the year (decade?) is they don’t, and I’ll have to explain to my grandchildren that long ago … Continue reading Do They Even Have Movies Anymore?