Swinging Modern Sounds #3: Time Has Done This To Me
I think it was in 1986 or thereabouts that my friend Jim Lewis gave me a bootlegged cassette of a live radio appearance by Peter Holsapple and Syd Straw (with,…
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Funny America: IF THE SHOE FLIES, HURL IT
The President of the United States looked into the sole of another foreigner- twice- as a pair of shoes was flung at him during a Baghdad press conference on a…
The Eyeball: What I Watched this Weekend – Dracula, Pages from a Virgin’s Diary
Hey tweens who enjoy a little abstinence-only subtext thrown in with your vampire movies: go out and get a load of the non-virginal variety in Guy Maddin’s Dracula: Pages from…
BitchCraft: A New Rumpus Blog About Handicrafts by Bitchy Jones
“If you have followed me here from my other corner of the internet, please know: I will not be knitting any handcuffs. I don’t think my excitingly rare sexual predilections…
The Eyeball, a Blog Ostensibly About Film by Ryan Boudinot
Your Weekend Popcorn Recipe My brother-in-law Chad Johnson’s popcorn recipe is the best. I’ve enjoyed it at his and my sister-in-law’s place over the years while watching Pulp Fiction and…
Swinging Modern Sounds #2: A Post Somewhat About Jazz
Arthur Danto, the Columbia University philosophy professor and frequent writer on contemporary art, has often referred to this “historical present” as a time after the history of art. What he…
The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Acts of Nostalgia My old friend Nate sent me this picture yesterday, taken some 17 years ago. That’s me in the middle, playing drums, wearing a pith helmet onto which…
A-18, A New Blog About The Back Of The Newspaper, by Ross Tuttle
Last Letter in the Alphabet – Zimbabwe Can we fault Sarah Palin for knowing little about Africa? (alright – it turns out she actually does know it’s a continent) But…
The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Double Features I created an account on The Auteurs a couple weeks ago. It’s an addictive site for film nerds started by a company working in close collaboration with The…
The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
I mentioned in my inaugural post that I’d recently watched The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith. The movie is about a man who struggles to support his family as…
Funny America, A New Political Humor Blog by Will Durst
THE CLUELESS CUP In an upset worthy of Marin Day School covering the spread against the Green Bay Packers through the first three quarters of a spirited scrimmage at Lambeau…
The Eyeball, a New Blog by Ryan Boudinot
Introduction I think the best criteria for judging the quality of a film is whether you’re still thinking about it a week after you watched it. Then there are those…