AFP Fix: THE book
That’s me surrounded by awesomeness. That is, yes, the book. Who Killed Amanda Palmer. And that’s also my fucking #LOFNOTC shirt; you may remember me talking about all that Twitter shit in an older...
View ArticleTelevision: the wasted medium?
I’ve been thinking lately about TV. Malachi Z. York, founder of the bizarre cult Nuwaubianism, once claimed that the word “television” comes from a contraction of “tell-lie-vision.” In a slightly...
View ArticlePerfectly Cromulent Analysis: Treehouse of Horror V
So, I’m going to use the quasi-existence of “Aprilween” (i.e., a made-up horror-themed holiday halfway between each Halloween) as an excuse to continue my proposed series of Simpsons analyses. Every...
View ArticleCartoons: They’re Not Just for Children EVER
I don’t know where people got the assumption that animation is a children’s domain. Maybe through further research I could ferret it out. Is it because animation’s ability to violate physical rules...
View ArticleSaturday Theme Songs: Powerpuff Girls
The Powerpuff Girls, maybe along with Dexter’s Laboratory, epitomized everything good about Cartoon Network’s output in the 1990s. Maybe some of their shows were a little too repetitive, or...
View ArticleThe Key to the Fourth World
This week’s pick for The Film Experience’s Hit Me With Your Best Shot series is a film that’s rapidly creeping up on my list of all-time favorites. It’s a keenly observed tale of adolescent love, loss,...
View ArticleThe Past Decade in Horror, Part 2
By Ashley About a week ago, Andreas posted his top 10 horror films of the past decade for The Montana Mancave Massacre and now it’s my turn up to bat. We spent quite a while discussing what we thought...
View ArticleSeein’ Me
You’ll be seein’ me. You’ll be seein’ me. Every time you bed down for the night, you’ll look back into the darkness and wonder if I’m there, and some night I will be. You’ll be seein’ me. This is...
View ArticlePunch Drunk
John Larch in The Phenix City Story | Brian Keith in 5 Against the House Modern Gothic vehemence… a chilling documentary exactness and an exciting shot-scattering belligerence. That’s Manny Farber in...
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