Permit me to engage in a moment of self-indulgence. I promise I won't do it often. We all dream of doing important things when we're kids. We collect rocks and sticks and shells, or capture tadpoles and caterpillars to watch them ...Read More
It's been quiet on the Green Glass Moors lately. I've been busy with a lot of writing projects for news sites. But today I heard something that gave me pause, and I decided I needed to blog about it. I've done ...Read More
For otakus (anime fans) who love surrealism, the supernatural, and excellent storytelling, Shiki (lit. “Corpse Demon”) is a can’t-miss. Its creative plotting, true-to-life characters, naturalistic lines, brilliant goth-rock soundtrack and unusually surreal animation style are all interesting in their own ...Read More
2011 is shaping up to be a great year for film lovers, at least for those who share a certain set of aesthetic sensibilities: the carnivalesque, the grotesque, the masquerade, and probably other adjectives that contain a "que." Here is ...Read More
With heavy snows falling for the second day in a row, being trapped in my house, I felt it was time to post this piece I wrote last month. [Cue Tori Amos’ “Winter.”] How many of us felt a deep and abiding ...Read More
On a sunny afternoon early last summer, I met bassist Cody Bourdot at the Hard Times Café. I’ve known Cody since he was a senior in high school—and throughout the past ten years it has been a great joy to ...Read More
It seems like an appearance on the Simpsons is something of a literary rite of passage these days. Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Franzen, Tom Wolfe, Stephen King, JK Rowling, Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes and Art Spiegelman have all made appearances on ...Read More
Back in my college days, I took a tutorial on art and activism, trying to look at ways that one could be, or approximate, or even just inform the other. Now, thirteen years later, I have done both. Based on ...Read More
Last night there were three. They must be loud--I can hear them very clearly all the way from Powderhorn Park. But this blogger, who lives a couple of blocks away from the river, has been following the explosions more closely ...Read More
Tabatha Predovich is a tall, statuesque redhead and front woman of the band UZZA. Their sound is dark, guitar-driven rock, reminiscent of The Cure, overlain with Tabatha’s powerful, perfectly-pitched voice. Her voice has been compared with that of Siouxsie Sioux, ...Read More