Peggy's speech encapsulates what makes her a tragic character. She has a sense of what's wrong in her life and in the world around her, but she doesn't have the tools to fully understand the problem or how to deal with it and so she turns to the tools at hand—movies and self-help seminars. This speech is actually as…

I was at that show! I was (and am) just a nerd from Duluth and remember being awed by the sartorial display before the show—men in combat boots and long skirts! liberty spikes! Great show, too. If memory serves, they had a really simple yet epic light show involving fiver or so giant, moving spotlights on stage behind…

what can you do    when the the things that made you happy now only make you blue?

Walt Mink.

in the mid eighties, i used to listen to PHC as a high school student (yeah, i was that fuckin cool), and the the show's centerpiece—the news from lake wobegon—used to balance its nostalgia with a more critical about the repressive nature of small town life. now it's just warm, fuzzy nostalgia. keillor's still a great…

most of the comparisons to novels, while meant to be criticisms, are actually a testement to the show. it's not often that tv achieves the imaginative power of a good novel. lost did that. but unless it's a miniseries (the singing detective comes to mind or even the miniseries version of dune), tv writers don't really…

martian—if you haven't already, you should check out joan didion's geat essay, "los angeles notebook," part of which is devoted to the santa ana winds

i contend that balls of fury was slightly more than moderately entertaing ("Welcome to the underbelly of ping-pong where fortunes are won and lost. I'm exaggerating, of course, but you get my point"), but mainly because of chirstopher walken and james hong

tiny dancer in almost famous

JB is the tarantino's only adult film (and i really like tarantino, but the dude's got the emotional maturity of a 14 year old adolescent). i think this is mainly due to the source material. leanord is always sympathetic to all of his characters.

the callback to the word "fart" written on the trailor wall. best fart joke ever.

for some reason, danny riding his trike across the carpet and hardwood floors is the scene that first comes to mind. has a more innocent action ever sounded more ominous?