I am not very Charmed
Someone I was shagging a couple of years back was friends with the script editor on Charmed. I found it difficult to find a single good thing to say to him about his friend’s work. The episode rerun tonight is a particular[…]

Call David Icke!! Proof “they” walk among us uncovered while watching Crufts Dog Show on BBC2

Dogs from space!![…]

Ryan McGinley finds new vices.
This months issue of Vice is called the Travel Issue, and for that reason it has three pages of photos of swim suits. They are done by a variety of photographers, but they all look like McGinley.
The casual nudity, th[…]

Thinking of Mr Sinkers thoughts on the Langley Kids, and his desire to hear more kids singing Hymns, I am reminded of this pop culture and theory class that i am taking, and thinking about music that is not pop cult, that has not been excorporated, […]

It’s no PBS yet (it’s only a few days old), but here’s Chicago physicist Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe blog, plus manifesto: “Let’s cast this as a shrewd, techno-savvy blow against the hyperspecialization of[…]

Selected lines
“They have female external genitalia, a blind vagina, and no uterus.”
“His skin became very thick and formed loose spines that were sloughed off at intervals. When he grew up, this “porcupine man” married […]

Fans of Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon should check out Garry Wills’s Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, if only for Part Two, ‘A Scientific Paper’. It’s not a novel – it’s filed […]

I’m not an instinctive fan of the works of Anton’ Gaud’. I find much of his work excessive and overwrought, and I just can’t get to the sense of awe others do. What’s more, a look at the facade of the Sagrada Familia dem[…]

Firkin Pubs: Classic Or Dud? – I must shamefacedly admit to becoming nostalgic for Firkin pubs. There seem to be so few of them around now. In their pomp they were certainly the enemy, buying up and homogenizing a variety of venues. But later i[…]

The Searchers is about some people searching. The Missing, which has ostensibly the same plot, is not really about the missing people at all. Its about The Searchers. In both senses.
The Missing articulates acutely how difficult it is in 2004 to make[…]