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Yale Does Shakespeare (and a Little Dickens)
Remembering Shakespeare is a fun online exhibition brought to us by Yale University. (Look at it here.) The curators are David Scott Kastan, a professor of English at the university, and Kathryn James,...
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey of “We3″
WE3 written by Grant Morrison art by Frank Quitely hardcover deluxe edition, 144 pages published by Vertigo Comics (August 2011) It is gruesome. It is drenched in blood. It is, as one of its creators...
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Portable Catharsis: Robert Bly’s 22 Poets
The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations by Robert Bly 2004, Harper Collins 405 pages I first discovered Robert Bly in Grand Rapids, MI, about six years ago. I was scanning the poetry...
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Visual Audacity: The Mill and the Cross
The Mill and the Cross (2011) Every execution has a history. Here are two men in the forest, choosing a tree; one slices a cross into the bark before they begin chopping. The bark will be cut away, the...
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Chateau Ste. Philip Morris: Big Tobacco and Washington Wine
I have mixed feelings about this. I’m admitting that. Perhaps I’ll be less conflicted tomorrow. But today I am disturbed. Today I let a simple question — “What is Altria?” — lead me somewhere I didn’t...
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Johnny Cash’s Faraway Places
Johnny Cash is talking to you. He’s telling you about one of the first songs he ever sang for an audience – “a critical audience,” he says. He chuckles at the memory. Even though you can’t see him, his...
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When Dice Die
Dice: Deception, Fate, & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell Quantuck Lane Press, 2003 I should hate this book. A 63-page quasi-history book with chapters averaging all of three...
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How Ryan Gosling Drove Out the Black Bile of August
I want to tell you about Drive. But I can’t do that without first telling you a bit about my bile. See, lately I’ve been feeling melancholy. Or at least that’s what I thought I was feeling. On a whim,...
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Remembering Places That Have Never Existed
It’s settled: I need to visit the island of Menorca. Located in the Mediterranean Sea and belonging to Spain, this gorgeous island is home to about 94,000 people, three ancient megalithic monuments,...
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“Do you think I’m just anybody? Do you?” Lawrence of Arabia Returns
One of my favorite moments in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) happens early on in the film. The android David, played by Michael Fassbender, is watching a movie and studying closely the voice and...
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