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Michael Moore — “Sicko” (mild spoilers, if you can spoil a documentary)
In recent years, Moore has become a sort of vexed figure. Under constant attack from the right, the left doesn’t quite know what to do with him. He’s a propagandist after all, so there are some sins of omission and some naked attempts to persuade. I feel as though in recent years leftists have maybe …
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Amon Tobin
We caught Amon Tobin and Ghislain Poirer at Metropolis last night during jazz fest. Yes, tickets were $40, but we got three solid hours of DJ entertainment. I hadn’t heard Poirer before and liked his stuff a lot — more conventional than Tobin but with a good feel, as he mixed DJing with a live …
Pure as the Snow Under Bambi’s Feet
Real Estate Saga: Part I
In June of 2006, Carrie drove by a sign in our neighborhood that said “large loft for sale” (well, it probably said “A Vendre: Grande Loft” or somesuch) and had a phone number. She called the agent to inquire. It wasn’t very large by our midwestern standards. But the agent inquired — how big of …
A New Spin on Media Effects
I’m not a big fan of media effects theory (other than the 3rd person effect), but my friend Carol Stabile has an interesting article in the works on what would happen if we started applying media effects theory to elite white men in government — instead of to marginalized groups, who are usually its subject. …
“Google your own name and ‘food fight'”
. . . said the reporter, “and you’ll find the article.”