Exit to Smallville
If you’re anything like me (and why for all that’s sacred wouldn’t you be) after going to the CNN Science & Space section this morning, you’re still wondering if the solar flare eruption from our solar system’s green sun will give you superhuman powers—perhaps the ability to fly or see through objects. One thing’s for [...]
Symphony for the Devil: Comedy Central Live
We treated ourselves to an evening of comedy last night, traveling to Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for the Comedy Central Live Tour. I think it’s safe to say that it was a night that the Hall won’t soon forget. New comer Mike Birbiglia (aka ‘Cracka please!’) opened the show and was clearly the straightest of [...]
Streetcore Named Desire
I was never a big fan of The Clash as a teenager, although Rock the Casbah filled me with as much semi-politico rock rebellion as any ten-year-old could muster during the early eighties. The video (known during that period of MTV as the one with the mohawked guys in the desert playing punk guitar to [...]
Of Process and Paper
I was already thinking about the fascinating special I saw on Nova the other week concerning the lost manuscript of the Greek mathematician Archimedes when I started reading this article on Quentin Terantino in which he describes his process of writing the screenplay for Kill Bill. I know it’s all bullshit, but it’s the way [...]
Stale Air
Listening to NPR’s Fresh Air interview with Bill O’Reilly in its entirety, it’s clear that his cult of personality is just as obsessed with “defamation of character” as Rush Limbaugh is with the so-called liberal media. Apparently, it’s a hot button that’s all-too-easy to push and works like clockwork after the tenth mentioning of the [...]
