Archive for April, 2010
Bang! Who Got Shot?
A couple of NBC sitcoms make frequent use of racial humor: The Office and 30 Rock, both of which straddle the pre-Obama and so-called (not by me) post-racial eras. The differences in their approaches are revealing of . . . well, I’m not sure what. In the early rerun of The Office I saw recently, the hilariously clueless Michael [...]
Citizen Kane: Okay, Now I Get It
Months ago I published a blog post called “I’m Supposed to Like It, But I Don’t,” in which I had the myopia, the gall, the sheer cluelessness to list — among other things I found overrated — Citizen Kane. The other night, at the suggestion of a friend, I saw Kane again, on the big [...]
Book/Film/Jazz Grab Bag
In “About the Blog” I wrote that I would be focusing on books, film, jazz, and visual art. Following is a kind of grab-bag of those things. So– BOOKS An example of the way my mind works: weeks ago I read a review of the new book The Possessed, by Elif Batuman, which combines memoir [...]
Signifying Nothing–the video!
Below is a link to the two-minute video of the first scene of my novel, Signifying Nothing. A brief excerpt of the novel itself is above. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es5aWk0JoRM This video was originally going to involve three actors, me, and my wife’s Flip camera. Then people encouraged me to find a director, and the director — the brilliant Jennifer Callahan [...]
