Malicknant Tumor

Terence Malick’s new film, Treee of Life, has debuted at Cannes, and as is drearily predictable, it’s already causing waves of controversy.  Booing, walkouts, endless vitriol, critics and viewers exchanging invective — the only difference between this and his other films is that now people are having the arguments on …

Where Humor Goes to Die: “That’s” “Not” “Funny”

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language; but rather at someone who tampers with their own language. The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition — always new books, new programs, new …

Hello the Internet I Love You: Two Tickets to Stupid-Ass

Your Yahoo! News, your YouTube, your Atlas Shrugs, they come and go.  Some web site comment sections go to college to get more knowledge, and some go to Jupiter to get more stupider.  But one comment section reigns supreme.  One comments section has come out on top, year after year, …