This last summer, at the same time that I was thinking about Ford Madox Ford’s theory of fiction writing, I went to go see maybe the most disappointing of the summer films, X-Man Origins: Wolverine. It’s just come out on DVD. I’m not much of a Wolverine fan–I just like other X-Men more—and he is [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘animal savagery’
August 3, 2009
I’m Not Done
[Press play, then read] The silence was full. The old monk let himself float down the river on the current, staring at the sky, anxious to be alone. He waited until he made out the old mine’s shadows. He paddled to the shore and pulled off his wet clothes, wringing them over the river and [...]
April 12, 2009
This Is Not The Superhero Film You Were Looking For
In retrospect, the sturm und drang over whether the Watchmen was any good or not (as a film based on the graphic novel) made us lose sight of what it actually was—a story that’s at least meant to satirize the spectacle that is the costumed hero and the superhuman, using superheroes to comment on the [...]
December 25, 2008
1 Thing About Marriage Equality
I live in a country where you can be straight and get married at the end of a game show after having met just a few weeks before, and be gay and know each other for 20 years and not be able to be married.
June 6, 2008
Deconditioned
Because my therapist and I concluded that much of my recent lethargy and even depression began when I stopped using yoga to talk to myself, I find myself in the second floor yoga room of my gym at 7AM this morning, studiously full of rage at the man next to me, who I’ve decided is [...]
March 8, 2008
The Money Quote
From Sam J. Miller’s essay on the Short Story, over at The Quarterly Conversation: Many, including me, see a lot of positives in the digitization of art, don’t have a lot of sympathy for the RIAA when it complains about its dwindling bottom line—and laugh out loud at folks like Richard Parsons, CEO of Time [...]
March 5, 2008
Your Questions Answered: Why Don’t The Fake Memoir Writers Write Novels?
Q: Why would someone like Margaret Seltzer try to publish a fictional story as a memoir? A: The novel in the West owes a great deal to the fake memoir, dating back to such classics as Moll Flanders. It was long held in disrepute, for that reason. However… Nonfiction today makes more money than fiction. [...]
February 16, 2008
MSNBC: The Hate Channel
Tragically, the post that was going to appear here was wiped out in an internet snafu. While I weep, make breakfast, etc., live my life, here’s an excerpt I was reading on one of my many open pages, from this week’s Media Matters column by Jamison Foer: a very cogent look at MSNBC’s record of [...]
December 28, 2007
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would have to crack open “The Landmark Herodotus” and get as far as Page 41 to [...]
December 4, 2007
Ending Your Days Of Bachelor Loneliness With A Wild Husband
10:28 AM thiago: dude i need a BF 10:29 AM hooking up casually is exhausting haha me: it is why do you say that? 10:30 AM what happened? thiago: haha emotionally exhausting that is 10:31 AM nothing happened, im just bummed out that i liked the boy and i wont ever see him again me: [...]
