Jon Ronson's profile of ICP is as politely brutal as they are ferociously dumb: "No," sighs Violent J. "I figured most people would say, 'Wow, I didn't know Insane Clown Posse could be deep like that.' But instead it's, 'ICP said a giraffe is a...
Author: SEK
Same as I did with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight (and continue to do to Mad Men) (much more of which is forthcoming) only this time about Hayao Miyazaki's.
Wendy A. Goldman took to Big Hollywood today and unveiled her new production company like a student communicating in her introduction that her entire essay will be filler: Movies have.
I'm told The Donalde claims I'm "obsessing" over him in a rather nonsensical way—my ardent defense of community college students is actually an attack on community college students somehow—so I want it be known that I'm only "obsessed" with him in the same way I...
Though I tend to disagree with his criticism of other science fiction authors, I do love it when Scalzi embraces his titular WHATEVER and goes off on an anti-objectivist rant:.
A few months back, during an exchange which still bothers me for all the obvious reasons, The Donalde defended himself against my charge that certain of his posts created a hostile learning.
While the fact that none of the major conservative blogs have rushed to O'Keefe's defense is amusing, the document CNN acquired is not. Or only differently. It contains statements like: That the people planning the prank—O'Keefe included—know that O'Keefe's normal persona (or "personality") is "sleazy" shows improved...
The standard caveat applies: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. I repeat: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. The wheel will not be reinvented here. I begin the.
I know that Yglesias wants me to analyze the iconography of the Republican's "Pledge to America," and I'll do so a little later. But for the moment, I think it's worth.
A commenter emailed and requested I write something about Kenneth Marcus's article on anti-Semitism at UCI. It opens: During the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism was unleashed with a vengeance in Irvine, California. There, on the campus of the University...
"Comedian" Tim Slagle wrote a post slagging Morrissey for calling the Chinese a "subspecies" for "their" treatment of animals. I'm with Slagle on the condemnation, though I'm not as surprised.
It turns out Dan Riehl is as adept at reading words as situations: I should apologize and confess to having previously torn off a quick, mostly hyperbolic and silly rant.