Monthly Archives: January 2007

Morons March Again

Not to keep on kicking the Slate.com movie reviewers To go on kicking the Slate movie reviewers: there’s a hyperbolic review on that site of Mike Judge’s little-seen Idiocracy entitled “The DVD That Will Save America”. The title is no … Continue reading

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Land of 10,000 Wonks

Long years have passed since Minnesota unleashed Jesse Ventura on the unsuspecting policy world. It’s nice to see my home state is still in the vanguard of imaginary government. Maybe this sort of thing could be adapted to Iraq?

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Fun with Polysyllables

Read, reread and rereread with increasing lack of comprehension at Sartre’s Slate’s “Movie Club” feature: “What was Little Miss Sunshine if not a brilliant ontological dissection of the perils of sublimation?” I think the answer is, “A movie.” But I’m … Continue reading

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Closets and Windows

John O’Neill at Black Gate wrote me just after Christmas to tell me he was buying the most recent Morlock novella (a sequel to “Payment Deferred”), and I have been invited to submit stories to two different places. So naturally … Continue reading

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