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Why they call it “spunk”
A new documentary called “Sizing Up Sperm” uses real people to represent 250 million sperm on their treacherous, exhausting trip from the testicle to the egg. Along the way, they encounter antibodies (hey! I thought you loved me!), walls that drip acid, and the knowledge that the so-called winner faces a life of doing taxes. [...]
Continue reading...Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies
16 March 2010
Each one of us picks a few things to glom on to as a child, a movie or a piece of clothing or even a kind of food, and those things become part of the furniture we carry around upstairs. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson—think Charles Addams, but infinitely more threatening and hallucinatory—is definitely in my own [...]
Continue reading...What would be in YOUR library of 1,000 books?
15 March 2010
This post, like every other, blurts to you from the mouth of my book-lined cave, situated a mere six blocks from the el grande wetness here in Santa Monica. With a bright public library just down the street and the cyber-servant flickering in front of my nose, a personal library seems like a bit of [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: The King of Kong
12 March 2010
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: if you have anything important to do, do not start watching The King of Kong. This 2007 documentary about competitive classic videogaming is absolutely mesmerizing—much to my chagrin, I missed this when it came through the theaters; as punishment, it has eaten my morning whole. In 1982, legendary gamer Billy Mitchell set [...]
Continue reading...On Twitter? Like Breaking Bad?
11 March 2010
Ta-ra! Ta-ra! It’s my first TWITTER CONTEST! My lovely wife has graciously donated a brand new Breaking Bad S2 DVD box set. I am, of course, a fan of anything that keeps her gainfully employed, but my enthusiasm was cemented by the season three premiere party we went to on Tuesday night at Hollywood’s hangar-like [...]
Continue reading...Interesting People: Kubrick, Blakemore and “The Shining”
10 March 2010
Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorite directors, and I spent most of my teens watching and re-watching his greatest films in pot-scented, sticky-floored arthouse theaters. Even today, my mother and I seem to watch one or two every time I come back for a visit. A conversation enroute to the premiere of “Breaking Bad” [...]
Continue reading...Introducing…The Civet!
9 March 2010
Last night I fooled around a bit with this 3-D movie site, Xtranormal.com. I made a movie, which is embedded below. It’s a bit hard to make out some of the computerized voices, so I’ll paste the script below that. Civet: So, Broccoli Man…is this your first superhero convention? Broccoli Man: Yeah. Sucks we have [...]
Continue reading...Why Beatles > commercials.
8 March 2010
Spontaneous “Hey Jude” in Times Square subway station, 3/6/10 Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.
Continue reading...The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me
8 March 2010
In the fall of 1990, I had no interest in World War I; then as now, I studied history for the story of it, and there didn’t seem to be any narrative in that conflict. No personalities, no resolution, just four years of static, blood-drenched dress rehearsal for the much more satisfying sequel played out [...]
Continue reading...Fri Doc: Timothy Leary, the Man Who Turned On America
5 March 2010
This Friday’s documentary, originally aired by the BBC in the late 90s (?), tells the strange, dramatic, and ultimately quite sad story of acid guru Timothy Leary. The question with Leary—and perhaps with all such larger-than-life characters—is this: what was behind the surface we all saw? What was inside him? What made him different from [...]
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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