POP THE VOTE activists deplore ROCKIST PRESENTATIONAL ADVICE:
“Kerry obviously will never be a natural orator of Bill Clinton and Barak Obama caliber,” argues PolBlogger Billmon, “but there are some things he could do that would he[…]

[insert DIET OF WORMS joke here]
“(…) Insufficient consideration has been given to the new underground religious war which is modifying the modern world. It’s an old idea of mine, but I find that whenever I tell people about it they[…]

a celebration of the critical strengths of not bothering actually even to listen (or indeed read): obviously i can see why this saves time – it is EXTREMELY handy to have a little codebook which tells you in advance where good music must come f[…]

yes yes but can he write?:
For years I have loved almost everything abt Alexander Cockburn’s The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys and Encounters, 1987-1994, from the cover inwards: it’s kind of a blog, actually – snippets of pieces pu[…]

ON GETTING A LIFE:
one of the funnier and/or more charming aspects of the respectabilisation of political blogs in the US over the past three-to-five months has been the fact that a. a whole bunch got invited to (and given fairly generous treatment […]

bcz the Julia Lennon Theory also applies to sport
(= there is no such thing as “backstage”)
(=not the same thing yet as “commentators now know how to integrate this bedroom dimension into their analysis”)[…]

STILL NOT GETTING IT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
“Beyond that, though,” says mr blissblog, “I’m not sure of the extent to which you…can make the charts the foundation of a pop theology. After all, they’re simply a structure […]

IT TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!!
my mum took me to see thunderbirds are go! when i wz eight, and says she sat rigid w.boredom thru the entire thing – i can’t see why!! it wz on c5 this afternoon, and i watched it avidly: it is a searing michael […]

yes vicky is korrekt i totally forgot chitlins/chitterlings!!

(this site makes the good point that organmeat is increasingly considered poor pplz diet and demeaning maybe and harder and harder to find in non-sausage form)[…]

TO PROVE I AM A BALANCED FELLOW Bérubé – an academic w.a fairly good grasp of pop culture AND left politics – is often a little full of himself, but i think this compare/contrast of nader’s raiders and (us) clashfans works a stron[…]