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Clelia Mosher, Victorian Sex Researcher
Decades before Alfred Kinsey, Stanford professor Clelia Mosher was collecting information about the sex lives—and bedroom attitudes—of American women. Tucked away in an archive for decades, her papers unearth some surprising discoveries…that are really only very surprising if one struggles under our ridiculous prejudice towards the contemporary. For some reason (I suspect advertising), it’s very [...]
Continue reading...Then, They Came for the Zebras, and I Did Nothing Because…
30 March 2010
[Just for fun, I'm practicing reading my stuff aloud. If you can stand a flub or two, here's me reading this piece.] Can I just say, “Thank God for the internet”? Without the world wide web, who knows how long it would’ve taken me to learn that “UK Restaurant Is First to Serve Zebra Pizza”? [...]
Continue reading...Ancient Rome in Glorious 3-D
29 March 2010
I’ve been fascinated by ancient Rome from the moment I started watching “I, Claudius” on PBS at age eight (that was 1977, for those of you keeping score). Every Sunday night, my mom and I would curl up on the couch and watch Derek Jacobi brilliantly stumble and stammer his way through the bloodshed and [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: Terry Jones’ Ancient Inventions
26 March 2010
Oh, this hits me where I live: Monty Python and ancient civilizations? Did they talk to my parents or something? “And what type of documentary would Michael like?” I’m having trouble typing this post because I can’t stop watching the film! There, switched it off for a second. “Ancient Inventions” is a three-part documentary hosted [...]
Continue reading...Weird Al biopic
25 March 2010
I had a girlfriend once who loved Weird Al Yankovic. I mean, like, saw him in concert. Several times. Of course it didn’t work out. What does it say when we all know the hackneyed forms of media so well we can parody them exactly, but stop there? This is a key problem with much [...]
Continue reading...Documentary: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
24 March 2010
I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here. I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Perrin at the UCB
23 March 2010
Dennis Perrin is the only person I know who is as obsessed as I am with the comedy of the 1970s. Actually, who am I kidding? For all the best reasons, Dennis is MORE obsessed than I am, as anyone who has ever picked up his tremendous biography of NatLamp/SNL stalwart Michael O’Donoghue can attest. [...]
Continue reading...Do YOU remember Three Mile Island?
22 March 2010
I sure as hell do. It was a prominent ingredient in the Anxiety Stew that was me as a nine-going-on-forty-seven-year-old. For those of you who don’t remember, or have an odd idea of fun, Frontline has made an excellent documentary about the event that doomed nuclear power in the US for a generation, and spoiled [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: “The Second Gun”
19 March 2010
Everybody agrees that Robert Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968, in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel here in Los Angeles. Everybody also agrees that Sirhan Sirhan was in the pantry firing a gun at the Senator. But after that, nobody agrees on much—not witnesses, not coroner Thomas Noguchi, and not the LAPD. A [...]
Continue reading...The carrot clarinet!
18 March 2010
This goes out to my friend Jer, who is both a clarinet player and a vegetarian.
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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