Remarkable

The commonplace book is supposed to be a collection of good quotes. But I can use it for cool YouTube clips as well. Here is one of doofy Br...

Because I am interested in genre and influence people often ask me what my favorite one is, if they don’t just assume it is superhero comics...

Rock and roll is the crossing of the cowboy and the dandy. If you grew up on Westerns and Sherlock Holmes, your destiny was rock and roll. A...

The eighth episode of Studio 60 just ended ("Nevada Day part 2"). The seventh episode had some of the old Sorkin kick to it, and ...

The fourth Episode of Brad Winderbaum's Satacracy 88 is out today, another five minute story that continues to open this world up. If y...

Married with Children was a hugely popular show during its ten year run (1987-1997), and spawned an unbelievably shameless rip off in 1995,...

I saw the full-length version of Honda’s Power of Dreams (Impossible Dream) ad in front of a movie recently, and I was knocked out by it. Yo...

Last Sorkin post for a while, until I am ready to write about why Studio 60 is not working. Plato distrusted the arts, because he was conce...

The pilot of Studio 60 also alludes to real life in order to ingratiate us to one of the main actors -- when we are introduced to Matthew Pe...

I wanted to walk through a few allusions in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , to show on how many levels Aaron Sorkin’s writing works. You don...

BenBella is putting out two more Smart Pop books, one on Firefly/Serenity (a sequel to their Finding Serenity , edited by Jane Espenson) an...

A few years ago I edited an issue of the online journal Reconstruction (the issue in which my essay on the X-Men and Gnosticism appeared ). ...

Brad tells me that in LA, once something hits DVD, all bets are off, spoiler-wise, and everyone can speak freely about the secret twist endi...

The third episode of Satacracy 88 is up at itsallinyourhands.com, and in it we begin to get a much larger sense of the world in which Angel...

Dexter is Showtime's new TV series about a cop who is also a serial killer. After years of movies and television shows playing though t...

Since Blogger is being wonkey this week, I thought I would just post a single fun fact I discovered today (in a free copy of the New York Po...

The message “eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die” is a cliché, and as such it has lost all of its imaginative persuasive force. We ...

Fault Lines also has a good example of Darnielle’s technique of a specific detail (often from the landscape) placed parallel to some romant...

Weeks ago I mentioned that I was invited to write an essay on the show Veronica Mars for an essay collection from BenBella Books. My contri...

There are four matching refrains in The Mountain Goats' Fault Lines in which he describes first himself, then his lover. In the first a...