From the relentlessly easy to underrate Bob Herbert: "We're confiscating shampoo from carry-on luggage at airports while at the same time handing out high-powered weaponry to criminals and psychotics at gun shows..." … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
THE SONG IS YOU
by Arthur Phillips, where the iPod is a character and the obsessive fan finds a voice. Among the very few novels I can think of where musical descriptions approach poetry. On this morning's second hour of On Point with Tom Ashbrook. Now a zesty download from Podomatic. … [Read more...]
ALT NOMINEES: BRENDAN GLEASON
NETFLIX KETCHUP: Finally watched In Bruges, a very clever if sordid script but one of the best supporting performances from Brendan Gleason (The General). The way his eyes roll back into his head, his (ferociously impractical) death scene against anybody's. … [Read more...]
BLUSHING BETTY BOOP
Children can also intuit sexuality long before they've got a clue what it is, and Pinocchio is the dirtiest Disney feature ever. The unavoidable Exhibit A is the Freudian no-brainer of the hero's lengthening proboscis, though I'd forgotten that in the scene when it happens he's a) locked in a cage … [Read more...]
B. KLIBAN AGAIN B. KLIBAN
OBAMA, MEET MIKE DAVIS
Anyone else notice how rad Bill Moyers has been during the meltdown? Past two guests have included William Greider and Mike Davis, author of the inimitable City of Quartz, best book about Los Angeles. … [Read more...]
William Greider used to be in the mag at left: Here is a very different way to understand the problem: to restore the broken financial system, Washington has to fix the Federal Reserve. Though this is not widely understood, the central bank has lost its ability to govern the credit system--the … [Read more...]
https://www.artsjournal.com/riley/2009/04/william_greider_used_to_be/