Every so often, on Facebook, Roger Ebert posts his submissions to The New Yorker’s weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I’ve never given it a shot, as I don’t think I really have a handle on the editorial voice of The New Yorker, but, as I’m laying in bed sick at the moment, with nothing better to […]
By Mark | December 15, 2012
As you’ve no doubt heard, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday morning, taking the lives of 20 children (all 6 and 7 years old) and 6 adults. It’s a heartbreaking story, and I don’t know that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been said better by our obviously […]
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I should be spending my evening thinking about just what in the hell I’m going to do at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair, but I can’t stop reading about last night’s horrific events in Colorado. Predictably, a lot of people, like our friend Roger Ebert, are taking the opportunity to argue that more meaningful gun control […]
Posted in Other, Shadow Art Fair | Also tagged AceRock, Amok, Batman, Christians under attack, Colorado, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, gun violence, How The Mind Works, insanity, killing, Louie Gohmert, Malay, Marilyn Manson, mass murder, mental illness, National Institutes of Mental Health, Papua New Guinea, Steven Pinker |
By Mark | January 31, 2012
It’s not that I want to run people over, but, occasionally, I see something that brings Death Race 2000 to mind, and I wonder, if I were to slip into Machine Gun Joe Viterbo mode and do the unthinkable, how many points I’d get. Today, driving through downtown Ann Arbor, I had one of those […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1975, Annual Transcontinental Road Race, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, cars, cult classics, Death Race 2000, donkey semen, dystopia, Fear Factor, Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, Rocky, running people over, Russ Meyer, Sandy McCallum, Sylvester Stalone |
By Mark | February 5, 2011
Somewhere around this drafty old house of ours, I have an audio recording of director Russ Meyer talking with Linette and me about his career. It was probably recorded in 1994. We’d met him in Atlanta, as I recall, at a screening of his cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! If memory serves, he was […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged actress, another famous person has died, b-movies, bad girls, bad movies, breasts, cult films, Elvis, exploitation films, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, go-go dancers, Harold Lloyd, horror movies, Kate Moss, King of The Nudies, Manzanar internment camp, pin ups, Reno, Russ Meyer, strippers, Ted V. Mikels, The Astro Zombies, tough broads, Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, Tura Satana, Varla, waif models, women who kick ass |
