Wednesday, August 7 2002
Dracula’s Revenge
At a lunch with two members of the Romanian Senate the discussion moved from NATO admission to Dracula Park.
Wednesday, July 31 2002
The Myth of the Right to Life
Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be needed in order to fulfill society's obligations to prolong, maintain, and improve our lives, but fulfill them they must.
Wednesday, July 24 2002
Northerns and Westerns
Both the Northerns and the Westerns tend to have an outlaw as their main protagonist . . .
Hollering Therapy
Confederate soldiers utilized the Rebel Yell to put fear into the hearts and souls of the Union Army. It also made them happy, I suspect, to holler in the woods.
Wednesday, July 17 2002
Ham and Eggs: On Experimental Film and Foreignness
Americans don't like to feel estranged at the movies. The movies are our home turf
Wednesday, July 10 2002
Lad Mags and Dangerous, You Know: The Risk That Rolling Stone Takes
Anglo Visions -- Lad Mags and Dangerous, You Know: The Risk That Rolling Stone Takes -- In the hands of the new breed of editors, style and gloss, surface and glamour, beat everything: bigger, deeper, harder, harsher matters cower in the shadow of the flash, the superficial, the vacuous, the ephemerally amusing.
Colour It Wild : David Goldblatt Turns Over a Colourful Leaf, in His Seventies
The tones that the sun inflicts on our spaces are often neither rich nor filled with gentle gradations.
In the Main It’s More Than the Mane
. . . (F)or all its post-war success, its unrivalled rise from the ashes, Japan views itself as the national equivalent of Charley Brown.
Friday, June 28 2002
And Then There Were Too Many: The Population Bomb
No one can vouchsafe for a 'critical mass' of humans, a threshold beyond which the species will implode and vanish.
Wednesday, June 26 2002
The Pantego Mud Run: A Fourth of July Event
Many have described the Mud Run as Heaven on Earth for folks who love beer, tattoos, tube tops, and tobacco
Democratic Vistas: East and West (with apologies to Walt Whitman)
We were no longer in a country where this soldier's actions were constrained by democratic niceties. When he said get off the bus, we got off the bus.
Wednesday, June 19 2002
World Cup Tart
He is the primo monogamous Alpha male that we all, at one time or another, fantasize about being close to.
Sunday’s Not-So-Guilty-Pleasure
. . . I think the series fills a void that is left by the other networks, which lately have limited gay characters to sitcoms.
Three the Hard Way: Black Art Outside the Flow
Ain't nothin' wrong with cats payin' the bills with their art. But there's always a real cost associated with stayin' true to your art, when market demands suggest that there's more money available following trends.
Wednesday, June 12 2002
Flavoured Underwear Not Found Here
For you see, if the Prime Minister were caught giving his aid a DVD player that he had purchased with taxpayer funds, the episode would have ended with the Prime Minister being chased down a hallway by a camera crew and a journalist screaming out, 'Is this what our taxes are for?'
Pop Goes the Palace but Pistols Remain in Exil
The chances of Osbourne biting the head off a live corgi -- the toy dog that has been the hearthside symbol of the latterday Windsors -- were maybe remote, but it is worth remembering that other members of the invited bill have not always toed the line themselves.
Wednesday, June 5 2002
Still Standing: The Sharpeville Six
. . . The previous government gave killers the golden handshake and the present government gave them amnesty . . .
The Thinker and the Rapper: Shusterman on Popular Culture
The beatnik has beaten the highbrow, the rapper has rapped the thinker.
The Complexity of Memory: Warsaw 1940-1991
Auschwitz and Warsaw clashed with Jennin; the Battle of the Boyne was fought again; memory struggled with memory.
Wednesday, May 29 2002
Touring the South
Agri-tourism. It seems people will pay good money to drive a tractor, weed collards, and pick cotton.
