Archive for November, 2003

Come Poop With Me

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003

Terry Gross’ Fresh Air interview with Triumph the Insult Comic is something to be listened to if only to hear the librarian-mannered hostess saying the phrase "Come Poop with Me" several times over. That’s the name of the foul-mouthed puppet dog’s new Vaudville-esque CD and DVD in which he apparently raps, sings, and does […]

Angel in the Wings

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

Tony Kushner is regarded as one of the most humanistic and imaginative playwrights in American theatrer today. His decade-old play Angels in America will supposedly make the Reagan mini-series that CBS gutlessly yanked off the air look more like a TV homage worthy of the Reagan Legacy Project when it airs on HBO this […]

Script Runner

Wednesday, November 19th, 2003

Wired online has a rather in-depth article detailing everything you ever wanted to know about Phillp K. Dick, the science fiction writer who wrote the brilliantly postmodern film Blade Runner among other mind-bending stories such as the ones adapted in Total Recall and The Minority Report — all decades before his work ever made […]

Political Psyche Bites

Friday, November 7th, 2003

This interview with Bill Clinton at The American Prospect not only reminded me that a president can communicate intelligently beyond a pre-written sound bite, it reveals an understanding of the liberal/conservative pyschology itself.

MICHAEL TOMASKY: […] I’ve been reading lately some scholars who talk about conservatism and liberalism not only as ideologies but as psychological belief […]

Are You a Neocon?

Thursday, November 6th, 2003

Phew, for a minute I was worried I might be a neoconservative.

This 10 question quiz tells me, though, that I fall under the classification of… (are you ready for this one?)… liberal.

Shocker, I know.

But it does bring up an interesting point.  Are neoconservatives self-describing neoconservatives or do they actually have to take a test to […]