May 2012
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May 31st
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On Getting Squicked Out by a 90-Year-Old Film →
Last weekend I watched Erich von Stroheim’sGreedin a theater, and it freaked out and disgusted my cynical, hardened, 80s baby sensibilities to the core.
May 31st
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May 30th
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Why I Can't Read Lovecraft →
iugesorbust: halfmandrill: H. P. Lovecraft, a much-beloved nerd god of pulpy, purple prosey horror and bleak isolation. I read a book of his once, and I loved it. But I can’t bring myself to read his work anymore. I wrote a piece about it. This is actually a really interesting Marxist reading of HP Lovecrafts work. I will never look at Lovecraft the same way again.  I think I’ll still read...
May 30th
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May 28th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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ListenBeen awhile since Scarface sounded this needlessly...
May 25th
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Why I Can't Read Lovecraft →
H. P. Lovecraft, a much-beloved nerd god of pulpy, purple prosey horror and bleak isolation. I read a book of his once, and I loved it. But I can’t bring myself to read his work anymore. I wrote a piece about it.
May 23rd
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“On Wednesday, several core group members [of The Pharcyde] will reunite at the...”
– Oof. That’s the least triumphant reunion this side of Diana Ross and two Supremes she’d never actually performed with before. Yeesh. That said, Bizarre Ride II is a damn classic and this is a great piece by O-Dub.
May 23rd
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“Of course, the best part is that Marvel and DC, the two biggest American comic...”
– Rob Bricken of Topless Robot, on Marvel and DC’s big publicity push around their gay characters.
May 22nd
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“I was now a gawky adolescent with a beard thick on the chin, spotty on the upper...”
– Gore Vidal, Julian, p. 58. Gore Vidal’s version of Roman Emperor Julian is a guy we’ve ALL known a million of.
May 22nd
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May 19th
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May 18th
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“Ruslan saw his fellow guard dogs less and less, but he did not have to meet them...”
– Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan p. 156 (Glenny translation) (I review the book here.)
May 18th
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May 17th
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“Actually, Mike and I had this idea that we were going to pitch with me and him...”
– El-P on His and Killer Mike’s TV show idea. Gold! (reblogged from Made Up Memories)
May 16th
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“I hope you have fully recovered from your illness, and don’t let anything else...”
– There is little more restorative on a hanged-over, rained-out day than reading the weird literary mash notes Groucho Marx and TS Eiliot wrote to each other as they spent two years planning, and failing, to have dinner together.  (Oh god. Now I’m truly turning into Cavett)
May 15th
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May 14th
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May 13th
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Polanski's Making a Movie About the Dreyfus Affair →
… That’s clearly really about him and how saaaaad and persecuted he is. Ain’t that some shit? I have some words for this.
May 10th
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May 10th
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My Review of James Baldwin's Another Country →
Review in a word: “Guh!”
May 9th
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How the death of MCA makes Obama racist somehow,... →
May 9th
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May 8th
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