The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Appointment in Samarra

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Lindsay Lohan should be awarded the Darryl Strawberry Prize, which is given each year to celebrity relapsers. The real question is, why is L...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Number One Son

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The Times reported that Kim Jong-il’s son, Kim Jong-un, was made a general in the army, along with his aunt, Kim Kyuong-hui, whose husband...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Head Trip

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Inception is an old-fashioned head-trip. The Leonardo DiCaprio character is an extractor and implanter of ideas who is haunted by the suici...
Monday, September 27, 2010

A Grave Matter

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Did you know that there is a difference between a coffin, which has six sides, and a casket, which has four, or that casket sales are down, ...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

On the Bowery

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Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery (1956) looks backwards to the great Russian dalliances with reality, like Dziga Vertov’s Man With the Movie ...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Don't Throw the Bath Water out with the Baby

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In an era in which everyone is trying to make ends meet, why not take your chances on some DeCoster eggs? With medical and dental insurance...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Towering Words

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Wells Tower is Raymond Carver minus the specifically lower-class settings and the minimalist language. It’s fun to think about what Carver’s...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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