Ron Rosenbaum on Tom Junod in Slate: ...And here it is--he begins with the question: "Does 9/11 still have meaning for most Americans? Does it have more meaning than celebrity? Does it have more meaning than the very specific message of meaninglessness contained in the weekly parable of Angelina … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2007
Invisible Allegories
East India Trading Company ShrubTwo recent movies are blatantly allegorical, but most reviewers blinked. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN opens by hanging a ten-year-old boy in a cruel Gitmo scenario that poses a radical question: with brutes like Cheney in charge, wouldn't you want to sing the other guy's … [Read more...]
Editing Heffernan
The Best of the Bad Cops Keeps Walking a Hard Line (NYTimes) By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Published: June 6, 2007 [In lieu of writing my own big essay on the Shield's finale, I'm going at it through Heffernan's uneven piece...] ...In its six seasons, "The Shield" has won Emmys and Golden Globes but never … [Read more...]
Other lists
Past years, cover albums, tributes, hands I've shook, concerts, Rock Snobs, top 90s acts, guilty pleasures misc... … [Read more...]
lists to live for…
Best of 2005, 2004, 2004 CLASSICAL, 2004 LIST LINKS, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1990s, Cover Albums, etc … [Read more...]
Pepper Notes from All Over
"It was forty years ago today: the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. "It's certainly a thrill," the Beatles sang; but listening today, much of the thrill is gone--except for one song. Still, it's easy to remember that day--June 1, 1967--when the first thing we saw was the cover: a … [Read more...]