Goodbye Grandma. I Miss You So Much.
EDWINA THILL 1917-2008 WATCH: “The North Platte Canteen”
Month: December 2008
Memo For Obama: Save Our Earth
Let’s be real: Barack Obama can’t change the world on his own.
Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons
When acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons sat down to create epochal comic book series Watchmen with writer Alan Moore, neither had any idea what was to come.
There’s Plenty For Me At Plenty Magazine. Too Bad It’s All About Bad Enviro News.
During a time of occupational upheaval, I seem to have managed to escape the type of disaster that other journos have been subjected to. In fact, I’m working more and […]
Best Of 2008, The Playlist
What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]
The Clone Wars Reboots Star Wars’ Peripheral Players
I’ve been covering the smoking new iteration of Star Wars known as The Clone Wars for Wired since its first animated episode aired earlier this year. It’s far better than […]
Obama’s “Way To Go, Brownie” Moment
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Has Barack Obama forgotten, “Way-to-go, Brownie”? Michael Brown was that guy from the Arabian Horse Association appointed by George Bush to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency. […]
Wired! X-Men Noir Goes Dark, Sells Out
Back on the Wired beat at last, with a heads-up on Marvel Comics’ cool new series soaked in noir. Who’s firing first? The mutants, of course.
R.I.P. Listening Post (For Now)
Well, the economy did not leave my life unscathed, although I have worked hard to keep it that way. Wired decided to shutter its music blog Listening Post, which I […]
Let Them Eat Hummers
UPDATE: My pals at the Huffington Post have syndicated this entry. Hop on and post a comment, if you feel so inclined. They love the love, and so do I. […]
Post Up! Best Xmas Tune Ever? Stephen Colbert and Willie Nelson’s Ode to Weed
Click the video at right, if you want to skip my pontification. But those of you who have kept track of my spiels for Wired on Stephen Colbert’s riotous A […]
JingoSport!
Here come the holidays! I’ve already been given a gift: I finished a huge chunk of my forthcoming tome JingoSport! It examines war, sports, marketing and entertainment through the looking […]