Interview: Chelsea Spear
OnChelsea Spear, of Two On The Aisle Films, has a new short film, The Mystery Of The Missing Matron which just premiered at Lumen Eclipse’s first annual LE:60 festival, celebrating the one-minute long film. Matron is a photo roman, a film made…
Book Review: 33 1/3: Trout Mask Replica
On[Purchase Book)] The 33 1/3 series is a selection of short books, each one about an influential record album. The common comparison is that it’s a Criterion Collection for music; it’s not a bad comparison — the only difference between 33 1/3…
Book Review: Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain In Your Neighborhood?
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] One of the commonalities of being on television is that people will write you lots of letters. One of the rarities, however, is that the person written to will personally reply to every letter. As always, Fred…
Corpophilia: The Raid
OnImage by wallyg via Flickr “Mr. Grey?” “Yes, Pinkerton?” “I’ve got a little bit of bad news.” “What’s that?” “We’ve just been raided.” “What?” “We’ve just been raided.”
Book Review: The Ten Cent Plague
OnCover via Amazon [Purchase Book] David Hadju’s new book is about the history of censorship of comics, from the initial appearance of newspaper strips to the creation of the Comics Code in 1954 (and the fallout coming shortly after). Looking at the…
Doing A Brody
OnWhen Warren mentioned the shared dislike he and DFW had for The Professional Smile, I did not realize that this was specifically in the context of cruise ships, and that DFW had, in fact, taken a cruise run by the same company[1]…
A David Foster Wallace Style-Parody in Three Drafts, with Annotations
OnImage via Wikipedia The Howling Fantods recently did a contest to win the new book about David Foster Wallace. The rules said entrants had to write a 400-word (!) parody of David Foster Wallace’s style, and this piece had to include a…