- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Wednesday’s Heroes: Abe Sauer
The credo that Real Journalism would not quail before the Internet, but would instead become a hardy amphibian that hunts in new waters, finds its apotheosis here. Abe Sauer is such a creature, plying the digital currents and explaining two-thirds … Continue reading
Driveway Moments
National Public Radio seems to just be noticing that media culture comes in facets, made to order for the end user. The argument made by NPR journalist Elizabeth Blair yesterday is that the “common experience” once shared by goobjillions of … Continue reading
A Proposal I Just Submitted …
Working title: “And everything went back to normal” Eternal Recurrence, Conciliation & Dramatic Stasis in the Works of Neil Gaiman The epigram of the title above is drawn from Neil Gaiman’s children’s book The Wolves in the Walls (2003). The passage … Continue reading
Identifiers
Okay, look … this is me. So is this.
Wednesday’s Heroes: Jim Beaver
Star actors invite us to know them better. Character actors shut us out. If they have an inner life, who wants to know? They’re not the leads, after all. They’re the raconteur buddy, the mafia don, the bartender. Never mind … Continue reading
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Eschatography
The most detailed and numerous documents testifying to the apocalyptic atmosphere at the end of the tenth century come from Anglo-Saxon homilies. Written by bishops and clerics preparing their flocks for the day of the Lord, alternating between feverish apocalypticism … Continue reading
Mildly Updated: 5 Subtle Things I Liked About SALT (2010) … w/ spoilers
Salt, in case you’ve forgotten, was the sneaky popcorn movie with Angelina Jolie (in a part originally written for Tom Cruise) as an elite U.S. covert agent who’s actually an elite covert Russian agent. Planted in American society as a … Continue reading
