Year of the Month: The Happiest Comics on Earth (Part 1 of 2)
This is original artwork by Carl Barks, who created the Uncle Scrooge comics. He’s considered…
THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD (Year of the Month)
I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age.…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on SCANDAL SHEET
Scandal Sheet is a tight little crime melodrama set in the world of tabloid journalism.…
Celebrating the Living: Emilio Estevez
People come up to me on the street and say, Men at Work is the…
Attention Must Be Paid: Maya Deren
The past is full of shadows. After sixty years, most of what we remember of…
Disney Byways: “The Goddess of Spring”
In a way, it really doesn’t matter about the contents of this short. It was…
Year of the Month: Moses Supposes Erroneously by Persia
Famously, only two original songs were written for Singin’ in the Rain, both of them…
Year of the Month: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
For a long time, I was sure I was a fan of Old Hollywood musicals,…
Stuff My Kids Watch: Eating Up WAFFLES + MOCHI
A lot of health programming aimed at kids feels as though it was written by…
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 11: Bleeding Edge (and a Retrospective on Everything Else Too)
“I can’t really tell objectively how sorry I should feel for myself. I don’t give…