Now that this blog has been redesigned to take advantage of the latest in Web technology — thanks to ArtsJournal’s publisher and editor Doug McLennan, also known as “resident genius” — it occurred to me to check the first blogpost put up here. This is what struck me: Have an online look at two things […]
Archives for March 2008
Not the Yellow Brick Road
The title — “Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz” — tells you it’s an unusual novel. But it still doesn’t prepare you for the story (or the swastika on the cover). Which is why “Horror Panegyric,” published today by Savoy Books, works so handily. As Keith Seward explains in his introductory essay: Motherfuckers’ principals are Meng […]
A View from the Top
Things are going so well in Iraq that, as the headline says, “Pentagon Urges Delay in U.S. Troop Reductions in Iraq.” Or as retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey said the other day at the Council on Foreign Relations, “If you look at the totality of our experience in Iraq, it’s been a major disaster. There’s […]
Five Years Later
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Putting Him Where He Belongs
President With His Head Up His Ass is well named. The column is also charming proof that Collins must be a fan of the 1940 screwball comedy
Take the What Train?
Some folks in Montreal want to name a busy subway station for the late great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson in the Montreal nabe where he was born and raised, The Globe and Mail reports. But zehr eez a leetle problem: The station is already named for Lionel-Adolphe Groulx, a locally famous Quebec priest notable for […]
Blog Miscellany
A reader from Oregon writes, “Help us, we who check your blog regularly!! Please add something — ANYTHING!!!! I forget about it being there and then get my The Blinding Titties! I’m wearing a string of garlic around my neck now which I clutch feverishly whenever they appear … and I’m stuffing chunks of garlic […]