I Won’t Watch. Don’t Ask Me.
The Onion AV Club started a conversation that got me thinking about the pop culture that I deliberately avoid, that I want to know as little about as possible. I…
Viva Kenievel!
After the Vietnam War, America hankered for the simple pleasure of watching a working class guy risk violent death for no good reason...hmm...maybe there's a better way of putting that.…
Roger Ebert Died Today: What I’ll Miss Most
Reading Roger Ebert's reviews was always a pleasure, and I knew when they started slowing down that there was cause to worry. While I learned a great deal about movies…
The Coen Brothers Have Optioned Dismantle the Sun
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Directors Joel and Ethan Coen, the academy award winning auteurs behind True Grit, No Country For Old Men, and Fargo, may soon return to their midwestern roots. Through their production…
The Worst Book Cover Ever
Only yesterday I was making a few suggestions about what the Summer of Long Knives cover should be. Basically, I suggested a theme and left it at that. The cover…
Errol Morris’s Tabloid
I just finished watching Errol Morris's Tabloid, which tells the story, or stories, of Joyce McKinney, the former Miss Wyoming who was accused of kidnapping and raping the Mormon missionary to…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--I'm an outsider when it comes to matters Catholic (though I did get the Ad Altere Dei medal for studying the dogma when I was a Boy Scout), so all…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I'm still picking at parts of Summer of Long Knives. Some of it feels necessary, but a good deal of it is neurosis. It's usually at this point that I become convinced…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
--Last night, thanks to Netflix, I communed once more with the Brothers Zucker. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBuAfIjsFVk&w=420&h=315] How silly can you get? --Actually, the San Francisco 49ers answered that question during press week.…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I just caught Jack Klugman in the Twilight Zone episode "A Game of Pool". It reminded me of why I miss Klugman, one of the finest character actors in a generation of…