I watched the first episode of M*A*S*H when it aired, though at one year (and 6 days) old, I don’t actually remember it. I do, however, acutely remember sitting on the couch in my school uniform, wrapped in an afghan,…
Graphic Novel Review: “Return Of The Dapper Men”
Firstly, it’s beautiful. That was my immediate impression when I picked this book: it’s absolutely lovely. Finely detailed, deeply textured paintings; a rich pastel color palate; deeply charming character designs; gold embossed text across the cover; huge sweeping panoramas stretching…
Roger Ebert, Huck Finn, and me.
It seems there’s a new edition of Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn being published, with all instances of “the N-word” replaced with “slave”, and it’s stirred quite the controversy. In particular, there was a mini-commotion over a post that Roger Ebert wrote…
Stuck In My Head: “The Cannibal Song”
Man, kids’ entertainment used to be so much… Edgier. Creepier. Just plain weirder. I’m currently obsessing over “The Cannibal Song”, a insanely catchy little ditty from Walt Disney’s Addition And Subtraction. This was an educational record from 1963, and the…
Advance Album Review: The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts”
The Go! Team: superheroes sent to save pop music from the tyrannical power of no-fun. Their secret hideout laboratory is located not far from here, in a blanket fort, in a treehouse, in a playground, on the corner of Beat…