Mamet on Writing
“QUESTION:WHAT IS DRAMA? DRAMA, AGAIN, IS THE QUEST OF THE HERO TO OVERCOME THOSE THINGS WHICH PREVENT HIM FROM ACHIEVING A SPECIFIC, ACUTE GOAL.” An all-caps memo from David Mamet…
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I’m Still an Animal
I was actually glad to hear “Animal” on the new 90210 last week. The second most luscious (“Sans Soleil” wins that prize) and first most catchy track on Miike Snow‘s…
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #15: Sinatra Time
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sinatra Time It’s got nothing to do with nothing, pal, if you wanna know the truth.
China’s Media Crackdown
Earlier this week Google pulled out of China. The Chinese government is now seeking to “control how Chinese media portray Google’s decision.” The Washington Post has “reprinted the government’s instructions”…
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Circle Jerk
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
Movies, Briefly: Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Footsteps in the Dark is just so wonderfully absurd; there’s maybe eight minutes in this movie that could exist in the real world: they rest is pure poppycock. It concerns…
“Why was such criminal behavior tolerated?”
“This month, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a pastoral letter of apology — of sorts — to Ireland to atone for decades of sexual abuse of minors by priests whom those…
“I had more to say, but this was enough.”
“Last year a friend came to stay with me for a night, when he was between apartments. […] “Now I enjoy weird, unresolved sexual tension as much as the next…
“He Didn’t Know What He Was”
“The year my boy Danny turned six, my wife Penny and me took him down to Lexington and got him good and scanned because that’s what everybody was doing back…
n+1’s Non-Boring Panel on Healthcare
Leave it to literary magazine n+1 to get interesting people together to talk about interesting things that are of interest right now. For example, in December they had Malcolm Gladwell…