42 Since ’71 (Part 1)
Julia Sweeney, she of Saturday Night Live and Letting Go Of God, describes a fun idea for a best movie list in her latest blog post: I went on a Mike Leigh bender…
Oh, The Things I Saw (May 2014 edition)
May was a light movie month for me, but I still saw some worthwhile stuff, in addition to revisiting an apocalyptic piece of crap I had to rescreen for my…
Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dorothy Parker once said that "there is entirely too little screaming about the work of Dashiell Hammett." True…
Stuff I’m Up To
Just a quick update on the projects I'm working on here at Snowden Labs. 1. MMIP Riffs, a movie riffing project for theinternetplayhouse. Our first movie will be one I've…
Authors Who Hate Other Authors
For the record, I hate only one other author. He knows why. http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/20140514A_AuthorInsults.html
George Carlin On Not Giving A Shit
I'm still working on this. I currently give .02% of a shit, which means I'd have to carry 5,000 shits around with me in order to give one shit. When…
Richard J Evans On Conspiracy Theory And the Reichstag Fire
A fascinating article on the Reichstag Fire by historian Richard J Evans appears in the London Review of Books. An excerpt: The Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.…
The Things I’ve Seen (April 2014 Edition)
Here's what I viddied on a screen in April 2014. Gravity: A spectacular real-time (or close enough) story of survival. I admired Sandra Bullock's performance as a rookie astronaut struggling…
The Stories We Told After Adolf Eichmann’s Capture
Six days from now we'll have reached the 44th anniversary of the Mossad's capture of SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who'd been hiding in Argentina since the end of World…
With One Click, You Too Can Be A Guru
Anyone who's caught Deepak Chopra on a chat show has heard the New Age rap, a stew of religious patter and scientific sounding buzzwords. Spoken with style, the showy incoherencies that are Chopra's…