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“I understand that about twenty years ago, you were interested in trainspotting.” “Well, what’s that got to do with my bloody music?” Trainspotting turned up in a pile of undiscarded DVDs the other day, and I gave it another whirl. It’s hard to imagine it’s been 15 years since …
Osama bin-Laden is dead. Everyone is supposed to have an opinion about every aspect of how that sentence came to awarded the status of truth, and I guess I do, but I’ll be damned if I can sort it out into anything worth saying. Mostly, I feel a combination of …
Having been out of print for four decades did a lot to raise the status of Decoy in a lot of peoples’ minds. In truth, it’s a second-tier film noir; stylistically, it doesn’t do much for the medium, and it suffers from some lackluster performances and a lot of scenes …
The classics, it is said, are classics for a reason. Thus far in the Sandwich Century, that’s been proven true; the classic sandwiches have panned out as being pure gold as a rule. But for every Roger Ebertian sandwich, defended by all as an exemplar of the for, along comes …
Because I guess we’ve exhausted all of our other entertainment options, somebody has gone ahead and made a movie of Atlas Shrugged. The troubled production has finally arrived in cineplexes, and while it’s not the big-budget blockbuster Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie extravaganza we were once promised, I’m sure it’s a wonderful …
In the real world, a skeptic is someone who, faced with a lack of convincing evidence, does not believe in the existence of the supernatural. She is, in short, someone who believes the evidence of her own eyes, and if tasked to explain the presence of vampires, unicorns or Jehovah, …
The problem with writing about the breakfast sandwich, as part of the Sandwich Century project, is that it’s not really a single sandwich, as such, but more a genre of sandwich. To borrow a line from Parks and Recreation, you can’t say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, …
Over at the National Review, they’ve given idiot-at-large Jay Nordlinger a column called “Impromptus”, in which he jots down his half-formed mental emissions. As with most such random-thoughts columns, you get what you pay for. Let’s watch! It was interesting to read Kate Trinko’s piece on Michele Bachmann and learn …
The thing that has been most appealing about Amon Amarth since they first came to prominence in the late 1990s is that they really seemed to be having a blast, and their stomping, rowdy form of Scandinavian death metal was more than capable of infecting listeners with that good-time, kill-your-neighbors …
Sometimes, in life, you simply have to take things on faith. Such is the case with this week’s sandwich, the existence of which I have only Wikipedia’s word and the vague memories of a friend of mine who spent her honeymoon in São Paolo to confirm. For all I know …
Now that the NCAA tournament is over, sports chatter will finally be able to turn to where it belongs — the beginning of baseball season — and away from a bunch of teenagers playing bad basketball. This year’s college hoops championship game was a dreadful affair by any reckoning, but …
So, here is something you might want to consider the next time someone tells you about how times are tight, and there’s a need for “shared sacrifice”, and we need to get rid of “entitlements” like Medicare, unemployment extensions, and Social Security hikes. It’s something you might want to remember …
If there even has been an example of not judging a book by its cover, Blood Ceremony is it. When their self-titled debut LP showed up in my mailbox back in 2008, I didn’t exactly look forward to listening: bad cover art, generic name rendered in a sloppy font, uninspiring …
Note: due to some ingredient acquisition issues, the Sandwich Century project is going to go off-book as far as alphabetic order for a week or so. We’ll try and set things right by the next entry. There are certain things that come to possess an iconic status not because of …
In the interests of fairness, and to placate those who felt yesterday’s column was a bit unfair, today we’re going to discuss America’s favorite hobby: dropping bombs on Middle Eastern countries. While it’s sometimes proven slightly controversial — although not so controversial that pretty much every post-war president hasn’t done …
