Watchmen Film Straddles Fine Line Between Loyalty, Heresy, Hope
If only it were that simple.
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A-Rod and Phelps: A Tale Of Two Drugs
[Amy Bass, Morphizm] Let’s just get this first part out of the way: I hate Alex Rodriguez. Always have. It’s partially a Red Sox fan thing, and partially a, well, […]
A Heart-to-Heart With Heartless Bastards
Back to Socal from snowy NorCal at last. Found some killer road and snowboarding music. This rocker from Dayton named Erika Wennerstrom and her band the Heartless Bastards. She is […]
Climate Change’s Firestorms and Deep Freezes
Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change.
New York Times Bites My Watchmen Rhyme, CNN Bites Something Else
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is definitely a visionary comic. But is Watchmen director Zack Snyder a visionary filmmaker, just because he’s adaptating the seminal graphic novel for the […]
The Clone Wars: Most Action-Packed Series on Television
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Happy Birthday, Sofie!
Time sure flies when your life is changed. Thank the Big Bang for my daughter. Happy two years on Earth, my angel. Your mother and I love you forever.
All Of Them Must Go
[Naomi Klein, The Nation] Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles back in 2002: “You […]
You Should Already Know: Mercury Rev
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.
I Apologize, Juana Molina
If Molina continues to impress like this, she’s going to demand her own terminology.
Why An Asshole Is Always In Charge
[Greg Palast] John Thain is the guy that looks like a Clark Kent doll you saw grinning from page one of your paper Friday morning. Thain was just fired by […]
Welcome, Obama!
[Optimism as rendered in all caps, by Viggo — ST] [Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] WELCOME, PRESIDENT OBAMA! LET’S HOPE THAT THE DAYS WHEN CRIMINAL U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS ARE REPACKAGED AND REHABILITATED […]
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, Television Visionary
Be seeing you.
The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
Show Obama The Money
[Scott Thill, Morphizm] UPDATE: My fine fellow journos at the Huffington Post have syndicated this post there. Hop on, stir it up, spread the noise. “This disaster is not set […]
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
[Naomi Klein, Morphizm] It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement […]
Bill Richardson, Kissinger-American
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Bill Richardson is out: Caught with his hand, if not exactly in the cookie jar, at least you could say his sticky finger was near it. I’m […]
Sorry, Bill Richardson. My Bad.
I feel like a jerk. I wrote a hopeful piece about Bill Richardson, president-elect Barack Obama’s selection for the Department of Commerce, for AlterNet. Sure, it was also about Richardson’s […]
Goodbye Grandma. I Miss You So Much.
EDWINA THILL 1917-2008 WATCH: “The North Platte Canteen”
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.
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]