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Friday October 30, 2009
Tuesday April 7, 2009
Sunday November 9, 2008
Opus comic archive @ Salon.com
Linked to here because the cartoons at comics.com are so shrunk they're completely unreadable. ¶
Berkeley Breathed explains why he is ending his comic strip "Opus"
He's afraid the bitterness in US politics will contaminate the strip - I guess this reflects a transition from the political opposition that was the hallmark of Bloom County and the anti-Regan 80s to a more visceral and uncompromising loathing that marks US politics in the beginning of the 21st century. Hard to tell whether Breathed's clear antipathy to Hilary Clinton's scorched earth politics reflects this or is actually driving his decision - I suspect the latter. ¶
Thursday March 13, 2008
Wednesday December 27, 2006
Tuesday November 28, 2006
Sunday October 22, 2006
Sunday September 24, 2006
The 50 Worst Things Ever to Happen to Music
Some strange, like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, some predictable, like Ms. Spears... ¶
Sunday August 27, 2006
Sunday August 20, 2006
Wednesday August 16, 2006
What is Left? What is Right?
[via rc3.org]On whether whether it is possible to be both right wing and secular in America. ¶
Tuesday August 8, 2006
Thursday August 3, 2006
Tuesday July 25, 2006
Thursday June 29, 2006
Tuesday June 27, 2006
World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books
[via marginalrevolution]I preferred the Marsh Arabs to Arabian Sands... ¶
Thursday June 22, 2006
Sunday June 4, 2006
Tuesday May 23, 2006
"102 movies you must see before you can have any sort of informed discussion about movies" [via rebecca's pocket]
Ah well, stuck at 22... must make me a glorified Neanderthal... ¶
Ah well, stuck at 22... must make me a glorified Neanderthal... ¶
Tuesday December 27, 2005
Monday December 26, 2005
The best and worst of 2005 - the cult-cha version
"It's been a bad year for John Peel fans. All the tributes and the publishing of his book, Margrave of the Marshes, have only made us miss him more." ¶
"It's been a bad year for John Peel fans. All the tributes and the publishing of his book, Margrave of the Marshes, have only made us miss him more." ¶
Sunday December 25, 2005
Worth more than a Peep
"You know that Peepshow is cutting-edge comedy when it gets ignored by the boring conformists of the British Comedy Awards." ¶
"You know that Peepshow is cutting-edge comedy when it gets ignored by the boring conformists of the British Comedy Awards." ¶
Friday December 23, 2005
Roger Ebert's best 10 movies of 2005
Only half of which I've ever heard, and none of which I've seen. ¶
Only half of which I've ever heard, and none of which I've seen. ¶
Just Van Gogh!
Kottke on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings that's closing at the end of December. It's very good, and it was relatively quiet and un-crowded while the MTA was on strike... ¶
Kottke on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings that's closing at the end of December. It's very good, and it was relatively quiet and un-crowded while the MTA was on strike... ¶
Saturday December 17, 2005
Monday December 12, 2005
Friday November 4, 2005
Friday October 21, 2005
Friday October 14, 2005
Jon Dennis analyses John Peel's top 20 albums
I have two of them, one of which I rather dislike, and the other I'm so ambivalent about that I have no idea where it is or if I still even have it... ¶
I have two of them, one of which I rather dislike, and the other I'm so ambivalent about that I have no idea where it is or if I still even have it... ¶
How to flog a cinematic turkey
How the PR firm for Guy Ritchie's stinker Revolver [alleged stinker, I couldn't even stand the first half of Lock, Stock...] managed to get a rave 'quote' from the Sun newspaper... ¶
How the PR firm for Guy Ritchie's stinker Revolver [alleged stinker, I couldn't even stand the first half of Lock, Stock...] managed to get a rave 'quote' from the Sun newspaper... ¶
