An elderly man sitting on the curb this morning as I walk into town. The air around him heavy with metabolized alcohol and, more distantly, rancid human waste. “Can you help me get something to eat?” he says. A cloth sack in one hand, a tiny American flag in the other. “Sure,” I say. I […]
My expectations of mainstream media have gotten so low that, to quote Lord Feathering Walthamstone, they really have to “touch cloth” to get my attention these days. And that’s exactly what CNN.com did this morning with a homepage headline displayed at a size worthy of “JAPANESE BOMB PEARL HARBOR. AGAIN!!”. Sweating big black Franklin Gothic bullets […]
In “They Live”, director John Carpenter describes a world overrun by aliens very convincingly disguised as human beings. Then a drifter named Nada finds a pair of sunglasses that allows him to see through the disguise. He’s horrified to discover that every other passerby is, in reality, a skull-faced monster from outer space. Yikes, huh? […]
