The Day the President Turned Black
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] He’s in hot water now. For a moment, on national television, the President of the United States turned black! Last week, when his buddy “Skip” Gates got […]
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Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style
[Naomi Klein, The Progressive] We are in a progressive moment, a moment when the ground is shifting beneath our feet, and anything is possible. What we considered unimaginable about what […]
What Really Causes Autism? Everything.
I knew about as much as the next journo about autism, before AlterNet sent me in search of its roots and riots. And what usually never happens happened: I came […]
Hip-Hop’s Good, Great and Not Great
Mos Def’s hyper-aware culture raps keep it smart the whole way.
Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody Takes Invisible Man To Twin Peaks
But like Lynch’s Peaks before it, The Nobody‘s impressive science lies not in the mad experiments of the Invisible Man, or the Nobody, but in its subtle dissection of psychology and interpersonal relationships.
California Drought Threatens Entire Nation
The way California is currently wasting water — on elaborate lawns in Beverly Hills, on cow death-camps in the San Joaquin Valley, on whatever — it either doesn’t know where its water comes from or simply doesn’t care.
Currency Wars Coming Right Up!
It’s probably not the sexiest battle on Earth, but it is easily one of the most important. With the econopocalypse ravaging what’s left of the American economy and the currency […]
Anthrax + Lobo = Comics Hilarity
Back at it, after a week fighting off a fucked up stomach flu. I sure could have used a murderous lunatic to help me kill it off. Hey, why not […]
Hydrogen Sulfide Is A Nasty Way For Life On Earth to Die
Unfortunately, you can usually find H2S whenever and wherever you’ve got mass extinctions.
Pushing Forward Back
[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] The White House wants to “look forward, not back”. That is the stated reason given (again) by President Obama’s Administration for not wishing to examine evidence […]
Mind the Gap!
Gah! Due to powers beyond my control — including a move, a sickness, a forthcoming book and more clusterfuckery than you can possibly imagine — the Morphizm redesign is going […]
Sonic Beacons: An Interview With Tortoise
Tortoise’s Beacons of Ancestorship, a potent dose of unclassifiable sound that veers from dub, funk and hip-hop to jazz, punk and rock without ever dissipating into incoherence, is the Chicago-based […]
Gimme Some (Superman) Truth
Ruled as a suicide, Reeves’ death inspires a series of conspiracy theories and the interpretive biopic Hollywoodland, as well as a persistent urban legend, itself famously known as the Superman curse.
I’m Back! And So Is The New Morphizm
Wow, it’s been a strange, alienating, dizzying few weeks. Camp Morphizm has been moved, I’ve laid out a slate of work for the next six months, and life is getting […]
Morphizm. Over and Out. For Now.
Things are heating here up in Los Angeles.
Swine Flu Paranoia Reaching Pandemic Proportions
[Amy Bass, Morphizm At some point in time, I may have been someone who was conscious about germs, as I was the sort of person who looked in things like […]
Wired Dump! Batman, Colbert, Robot Chicken, Stickman Exodus
Mrs. Manface, who sports a five o’clock shadow while kissing her (his?) cherubic hubby.
Jack White: Rock’s Great Multitasker
I put together a retrospective of The White Stripes frontman’s various sonic disguises for Metromix last week, which was a hoot. As much as I love White’s musical talent, I […]
Pink Mountaintops Find Love In Hypno-Pop
Someday I want to move to gorgeous Vancouver, home of Stephen McBean. It’s the kind of place that inspires beautiful music, whether that is McBean’s crushing metal band Black Mountain […]
The Kills Fall Through The Kracks
I interviewed The Kills’ Allison Mosshart, who is now fronting Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather, about her various groups, The Mighty Boosh, why The Killers aren’t cool and […]
May Day! Terror and Terraformation
A climatalogical dystopia which can only be saved by sci-fi. Or is that cli-fi?
Great Northern Seeks The Lynchian Light
Los Angeles thrives on space rock, but local heroes Great Northern filter it through David Lynch’s Twin Peaks gothic pop for good measure. I reviewed the band’s latest effort for […]
Grand Duchy, Black Francis’ Family Affair
So I rapped with the pair for Rolling Stone and reviewed the disc for Metromix. All is well.
A Lexicon of Disappointment
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] All is not well in Obamafanland. It’s not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury’s […]
Neil Gaiman’s Final Love Letter to Batman
“I wanted it to have that love in there. I wanted to write the last Batman with honor and love.”