A Blast from the Cabinets

The Brothers Quay remind me somehow: always be blogging. I saw a series of BQ movies around the time they came out and they had a profound influence on me. I feel funny recommending them to people for fear they won’t get it. Their films felt out of place in the 80s and today I [...]

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Say What You Came to Shea

Stadiums are fraught with bizarreness. Who’s with me? Obama planning on giving his acceptance speech in a sports stadium is apt. It will be a spectacle of magnanimous showmanship and extreme public investment.

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Portraits. Notify Your Face.

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Drilling It All the Way In

Mirror dancing at Coney Island Observed: faux pool sharks in the bar drilling their cues into the chalk cube for a full minute before each shot and circling the table like a vulture hawk. What a waste of chalk. Naomi Klein has a follow-up on her book The Shock Doctrine up at The Nation and [...]

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Turn Your TV and Your Computer Off

Bowling for basketball Josh weighs in the Golly Ralphie Show. The media talking heads are becoming such an embarrassment. They have no problem either making shit up or regurgitating whatever pap the campaigns dish out. (Obama’s is not quite innocent either.) They’ll call a five-point lead in a poll a “statistical dead heat”.  Sigh. Happy [...]

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Dirt, Lights, Action, Noir

The lights are in but the cabinet is really dirty I watched a great trashy noir movie from 1949 last night called Jigsaw. This was obviously made by a bunch of beatnik proto dirty fucking hippies. (Watch it for free.) That should be enough to get what it’s about without giving the plot away although [...]

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Swans Are Dinosaurs Too

Do “professionals” and “politicians” really think they can keep putting on this Golly Ralphie Show that’s supposed to be journalism and reason? Just give me folks with their heads screwed on straight and uh, necks that don’t make an “S” shape all the live long day.

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