There are a number of symptoms of rot amongst the “New Democrats” — the dominant aggregation of technocratic centrists who have given us the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — that keep progressives and leftists from doing our party-bound duty to embrace new realities of forced austerity and …
My home base of San Antonio, like many overgrown frontier towns where the remnants of bloody old colonial powers contend with the ascent of new money and power, is insane. But because it is rarely the spectacular craziness of the big cities, its public entities communicate the most recent ripples …
FAILED FAST FOOD FRANCHISES 1. Kimchee Korner 2. International House of Seaweed 3. Everything Fish Paste! 4. Ohara’s Sun-Baked Sushi 5. Clamato Hut FORGOTTEN BASEBALL MILESTONES 1. Ray Cotton: first fan to choke to death on a pretzel (May 11, 1924) 2. Jack “Spats” Hollander: first player to miss a …
The use of violence is not only one of the most powerful conundrums not only in fiction, but in life. In art, the most problematic aspect of violence is that it is often used as a framework for threat and action, designed to bring viewers into a story who might …
“Die Sterne im Nacht sind groß und hell!” KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH “Tief im Herzen von Texas!” KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH “Vier hoch und breit, Prärie Himmel!” KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH “Tief im Herzen von Texas! Der Salbeiblum ist wie Parfüm!“ KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH KLATSCH “Erinnert mich auf Heidi Klum!” …
Some of you may be familiar with Calamity Jon Morris‘ nifty OHOTMU Reduxe project, where he’s solicited a raft of talented inksmiths to offer up their interpretations of that unforgettable nerdcyclopedia of the 1980s, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. If you aren’t, then get familiar with it — and click …
The Booth at the End is a lonely little animal, tucked away in Hulu’s menagerie of “search all” television along with Korean retail soap operas, low-rent British dramas too crass for the BBC, and reruns of American shows nobody wanted to watch in the first place. It was originally produced …
That well-fed fellow up there is the Reverend Douglas Wilson. A product of Idaho’s state university system and a recipient of the largesse of his flock, this noble sky pilot is best known for his series of debates with the notoriously godless Christopher Hitchens on the topic of whether or …
MON-EL’S BIGGEST COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM HE SPENT IN THE PHANTOM ZONE 1. No cable 2. General Zod wouldn’t stop telling that one story about how he first decided to become an astronaut 3. “Friday Night Fish Surprise” was just Mrs. Pal-El’s fish sticks with ranch dressing 4. Nam-Ek smelled …
A loving tribute to the forward-looking vision of the dignified speakers at the Republican National Convention. 01_Built_By_Hand
Goodness knows who I am disappointing in this matter, but The Hunger Games is probably the best blockbuster film I’ve seen in years. Which isn’t, unfortunately, to say it’s a great movie. It suffers from a lot of the same problems all blockbusters do, and as is the case with all …
Yes, it’s time once again for that all-time family fun game, “What’s This Guy Worth?, or, Exactly How Rich and Out-of-Touch Are the Rich, Out-of-Touch Assholes Who Are Going to Tell Us How to Fix the Economy?”. On our last episode, we examined the occupations and net worth of members …
So, something you might not care about — and why should you, I ask, giving you a chance to bail out now — is the ‘controversy’ over Lupe Fiasco’s new single, “Bitch Bad”. In the song, he attacks the use of misogynistic imagery in hip-hop (the concomitant video compares rap’s …
Barring the promotion of Isaac from a tropical storm to a full-blown hurricane, and presuming it does not alight directly on the Tampa Bay Times Forum and slay all the Grand Old Party luminaries gathered there for the Republican National Convention (an occurrence which would provide, to me at least, the …
The making of best-of lists has been a passion that has consumed music journalists since the days of Edison’s wax cylinders; no sooner had it been released than Oh I’m a-Leapin’ and a-Croonin’ for My Christ Jesus, by the Nine Deaf Mulattoes of Warren County, was voted “Biggest Disappointment of …
