As far as contemporary absolute leaders are concerned, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il certainly ranks as one of the most interesting. To say nothing of his policies, politics, and views, he has been seen as larger–and decidedly stranger–than life. Known as a gourmand despite the contradictions inherent in that lifestyle vis Communist practice, he has been […]
The conspiracy theory craze of the 1990s–criticized and largely explored in some of Steve Beard’s journalism from his collections Logic Bomb: Transmissions from the Edge of Style Culture and Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture–helped further open up and prime the public’s willing desire to believe that the forces that seemed to control their bank […]
One of the Last Arch-Modernists.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, French artist and pioneer of the “new novel” died this past week aged 85. Robbe-Grillet had one of the most maddeningly difficult world-views of the 20th century. His cold prose, disdain for conventional narrative structure, and emphasis on experiential memory set his work part from even his […]
While some take a relatively dispassionate view of criticism (essentially that criticism is jaded and interchangeable, because those who “can’t” spend their time criticizing others out of childish envy), I’ve always subscribed to the notion that the critic shows as much individuation as the artist. They are able to attain a certain level of […]
The second season of the online sci-fi serial The House Between is now online. To learn more and view each episode from season one, visit the official website. Myself and webmaster Bobby worked on this show, as jack-of-all-trades on the technical side and even moonlighting as actors in later episodes.
That time - “Christmas” - is upon us. Like it or not, it is everywhere one looks. If one has been lucky enough to have been totally consumed by papers and exams over the last week (like yours truly), then you have missed some of it. Or, if it has been nearly […]