Sue Monk Kidd is kind of an interesting figure: she was originally a nurse, and then she became a writer of conservative Christian self-help books, and then she had a sort of feminist awakening and wrote a book called "Dance of the Dissident Daughter" about trying to integrate her feminist politics in with her…

foyer
officious seeing-eye bitch sammy davis yunior yunior!

just a nod
my comment's a bit late at this point but i thought this was a rather inspired buzzkills entry.

tangled up in suck
I had a friend who hated Bob Dylan - I asked her why and she said "because he can't sing!" I'm not even a super-huge Dylan fan, but I knew that I couldn't have a very deep friendship (and certainly not a romantic relationship) with someone who took on such a reductive view of music. And such a…

sitting and arguing
"Slackers who sit around… arguing about pop culture and sex…"

battle of the high-school assigned-reading dystopias
one part I remember liking about the Postman book is towards the beginning, where he says that as much as people like to invoke Orwellian themes when talking about ways that society can be corrupted or what have you, it's really Huxley's vision of an endlessly…

i wish we'd all been ready
i was not prepared for that image of the cheeseburger egg-roll.

of course you could avoid the beams on that stage by using the flashman time-freeze thingy. or was that only in later versions, too?

alan licht
alan licht is an interesting noisemaker/sound-artist type of guy. i saw him live once and he was really quite good.

Mega Man 2 has awesome music; perhaps the best music of any video game I've ever played, though to be honest I've been out of the loop on video games since they introduced all these "Sunny Plays Stations" and "Halo Threes" and "Whee-Motes" or whatever the hell they call it.

he used to be a big liberal but he says that things shifted over time

the arts of man
i remain steadfast in my defense of conceptual art (and performance art, and installation art, and etc.). there are many wonderful art projects in this world but they don't get written-up because they don't involve the desecration of grunge musicians or the smoking of fat blunts.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to head-off anybody who may have been thinking about making a joke on the subject of Palin also being more "lickable." Also about the phrase "head-off."

indicators
well according to CNN a national poll says that most people thought Biden won the debate, 51 percent to Palin's 36 percent. also 87 percent said that they felt Biden was prepared to be president, compared to 42 percent for Palin. Palin came out ahead as "more likable" though, I guess thanks to her down-home…

grovey
not knowing anything about the current politics of it (is Grove a subsidiary of some massive publishing house now?) Grove has more recently put out Dennis Cooper's novels, which are great and subversive in their own right, and also Kathy Acker (r.i.p.). pretty awesome.

i'll admit…
…that I thought this movie was about people in their early-mid 20's, like the actors. Now that I see that this movie is actually about teenagers, it makes a lot more sense as a project.

Gilliam. Quixote. Jack Shit.

shark tale
Shark Tale was actually kinda rad - it's all about families accepting the queer folks among them; that''s why it's good, not because it's about accepting "difference" but because it has obvious queer overtones which give it a political stance. well, of sorts.

Yo quiero Palin! I mean, yo no quiero… I think I need a lifeline! That was a senior moment.

diddified
OK the Blair Witch thing is dumb, but this made me laugh. It's pretty much how I feel, too.