Tag Archives: Michael Cera

The Untold History of Zines… Amy Fusselman on Bunnyrabbit

Before Amy Fusselman made a name for herself in the world of publishing as the author of books like Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), The Pharmacist’s Mate (McSweeney’s, 2013), and 8 (McSweeney’s, 2013), she produced the delightfully […]

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Gregg Turkington, movie star

I’ve had the good fortune over the past couple of decades to cross paths with Gregg Turkington, the star of the soon-to-be-released film Entertainment, on a few occasions. [One of these days, I’ll scan and post some of my old interviews with him, which appeared in the pages of Crimewave USA.] Rarely does someone I […]

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What Would LBJ Do?

I was just sitting here in bed, holding a wet washcloth to my throbbing head, and thinking about how ineffective Obama has been at pushing the Democratic agenda (see last post), when it occurred to me, as it often does at times like these, that we could use a man like LBJ in the White […]

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You got your Gog in my Magog

It’s been requested that I move this bit of craziness up to the front page, from the comments section of a recent thread, where it was left by a reader in Ypsi Township calling himself EOS. He didn’t indicate it in his comment, but the first two paragraphs were lifted verbatim from an Israeli news […]

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Youth in Revolt

Prior to seeing Inglorious Bastards this weekend, I caught a preview for the upcoming Michael Cera film, Youth in Revolt. It looked good… And I’m not just saying that because we get to see a little part of Ann Arbor explode. I’m not sure how much of the film was shot here. If memory serves, […]

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