2023-04-16 16:23
Is “SUNSET BLVD” a horror movie that’s funny, or a comedy that’s scary? Both, neither, it doesn’t matter.
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2023-04-16 16:10
David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” opens with a dreamlike collage of suburban idyll and wholesome Americana. Then, a man collapses doing yard work behind his picket fence and the… Read More
2023-04-02 14:28
I’ve fallen into an old cliche with this project — the one where you make a New Years resolution, and stick with it really diligently for a month before falling back into old hab… Read More
2023-03-05 18:56
I’ve been trying to go through this list more or less in order, but Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” represents my first big break with with that. It’s for a good reaso… Read More
2023-03-04 22:20
That last few years have seen a glut of movies and TV shows about class conflict and the vulgarity of wealth inequality. Just off the top of my head, there’s been “Knives Out,&rd&hell…Read More
2023-02-19 16:47
Tom Verlaine died a couple of weeks ago. He was the front man and lead guitarist for the legendary punk band Television. Their song “Marquee Moon” (from the album of the same nam… Read More
2023-02-19 15:39
This blog represents the longest stretch of time of far between watching a movie and writing my blog on it. I got sick a couple of weeks ago and lost my momentum, and, well, you know how it… Read More
2023-02-04 17:56
How far would you go for success? How far is too far? In Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugestsu,” two families in feudal Japan are destroyed by the greed and ambition of man — wi… Read More
2023-02-04 02:53
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another ge… Read More
2023-01-27 02:28
Louise (Danielle Darrieux), a wealthy Parisian aristocrat desperately and secretly in debt, sells the diamond earrings her husband, André (Charles Boyer), a famed general, gave her as… Read More
2023-01-23 01:04
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Tropical Malady” is utterly strange, the first movie I can remember in quite a while that I started again from the beginning immediately after… Read More
2023-01-19 03:11
I have to admit, I’ve never been much of a Western guy. In college, I watched (and really enjoyed) “High Noon” and “Unforgiven” for a class on masculinity in fi… Read More
2023-01-13 23:46
Jeeze, what a way to follow up “Get Out” and “A Man Escaped.” The former of those two, in which a young Black man is lured to the home of a wealthy white couple under… Read More
2023-01-12 22:45
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so… Read More
2023-01-11 03:37
I hadn’t seen Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” before I watched it a couple of nights ago, and part of me was concerned that my enjoyment of the movie would suffer for it. Ev… Read More
2023-01-04 04:13
For the first film in my personal Sight & Sound “Greatest of All Time” challenge, I watched Buster Keaton’s “The General.” It’s not my first time visi… Read More
2023-01-04 03:23
Last year, the British Film Institute released its decennial list of The Greatest Films of All Time, as decided by a survey of over 1,600 critics and scholars. This year, as something of a N… Read More
2022-07-12 18:21
If you’re asking yourself, “How do I become Asatru?” well, brother, I’m not the guy to ask. But my friend Ben is! Check out his blog post over at The Troth: How do I… Read More
2021-07-01 16:09
First thing’s first: I am a staunch, active supporter of Medicare for All. I’ve hectored my junior senator about it. I’ve sat down with my Congressional representative Rosa… Read More
2021-01-11 02:38
There are hundreds, may even thousands, of card games in existence. Everyone has their favorite: poker, blackjack, solitaire, Egyptian rat screw; take your pick. My favorite card game is cal… Read More
2019-12-16 19:23
On Sunday, December 15 I and several other members of Medicare for All Connecticut, a grassroots activist group of which I am a part, attended a town hall event hosted by Senator Chris Murph… Read More
2019-07-10 14:13
On June 28, YaleNews published this story by me: Alumnus’ writings offer a window to the Revolutionary War in Connecticut In a nutshell, I found the diary of a Yale undergrad from the… Read More
2019-04-15 23:29
Green Day’s 1997 hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” opens with the line: Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road It’s an effective way to start a song, e… Read More
2019-02-18 01:37
Crossing the Pearl Harbor Bridge this afternoon, I saw this billboard: It included a URL for a website, CTWorkers.org. When I got home, I visited that website, and found this: The whole webs… Read More
2018-11-30 17:06
One of the most contentious issues during this month’s statewide midterm elections was that of highway tolls. Now-governor-elect Ned Lamont moved from a pro-toll position to a (possibl… Read More
2018-10-11 01:01
A case study in the phenomenon of “fake news” (or in any case, our inability to arrive at anything like an objective set of facts): Last Saturday in Portland, Oregon activists ma… Read More
2018-06-01 13:53
Last week, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer hosted a press conference blaming high gas prices on Republican President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal… Read More
2017-10-09 18:55
What is keyword stuffing? Keyword stuffing is an out-out-of-date SEO tactic that attempted to influence search rankings for a specific page, for a specific keyword, by including that keyword… Read More
2017-08-04 02:20
And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. – Revelation 13:1 There’s little dou… Read More
2017-07-24 23:55
There’s a lot of finger-wagging and tongue-clucking going on lately about “free speech.” The extreme right has appropriated the term as a rallying cry and dog-whistle so ef… Read More
Violence, Property, And The Social Contract, Or: Some Notes On Common Hypocrisies From The Far Right
2017-07-22 05:36
There’s a recurring dialogue in politics between those on the left and those on the right that I’ve seen played out (and participated in) many times, in many different forms and… Read More
2017-04-15 05:21
A little over a year ago, I sent an email to libertarian philosopher Walter E. Block about his then-burgeoning “Libertarians for Trump” movement. Block and co-founder Dr. Donald… Read More
2017-02-05 05:19
Fuck the Patriots. This has been my most recent Blog Post. Image credit: By Keith Allison (originally posted to Flickr as 836) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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2017-01-01 05:08
Yesterday, the New York Times published a piece titled, “Nixon’s Vietnam Treachery.” The article presents new evidence that Nixon and then-strategist Henry Kissinger delibe… Read More
2016-08-15 05:02
When the Democrats formally chose Hillary Clinton as their candidate for the presidency last month, she made history twice. Once as the first woman to be so nominated in the history of the c… Read More
2016-08-07 04:37
Spaghetti is good. I am eating spaghetti as I write this, and in fact the spaghetti I’m eating is what inspired me to formally declare its goodness to the world via weblog. Some more i… Read More
2016-07-29 04:26
Warning: This post contains some mildly explicit language. It’s something many of us have probably seen: Some person or another makes a post on social media, or even makes a statement… Read More
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