“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow I have a pretty shaky educational history. I skipped kindergarten; I went to a religious grade school whose course of study was not especially rigorous; and I dropped out …
The dominant mode of the crime novel in pre-war European fiction was much as it had been since the birth of the genre: the whodunit. Unreeling a mystery, clue by clue, until some heroic or slightly quirky detective could triumphantly announce the identity of the evildoer was the essential nature …
Larry Charles’ comedy credentials, if there is such a thing as comedy credentials and his new Netflix docu-series Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy makes a fairly strong argument that there isn’t, are impeccable. Working as a jokesmith and filmmaker for four decades, he’s been writer for Fridays, Seinfeld, and …
You’d be forgiven if you didn’t know anything about Letterkenny. It came more or less out of nowhere, debuting as a series of one-man web videos starring creator Jared Keeso, then transitioned to a full-blown sitcom on something called “Crave TV” (apparently a video-on-demand service in Canada), before finally ending …
In the mid-1960s, a young man from a well-to-do New York family began attending the Little Red School House, a private high school that practiced progressive educational policies and was in favor with some of the city’s most artistic and left-leaning luminaries. It championed humanitarian values, cooperation, internationalism, and a …
So, he’s running. Bernie Sanders, who will be 79 years old when the 2020 election takes place, has announced his decision to run for President of the United States again. To say I am extremely conflicted about this announcement would be an understatement on the level of saying I have …
