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More on John Hughes

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Kate forwarded me this wonderful blog post, where a woman talks about a long correspondence she once had with John Hughes. The ability to connect with great people–especially great young people–is the best part of writing. I really value the pen pals and e-pals I’ve picked up over the years, but the normal crush of [...]

A few thoughts on John Hughes

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Last night at 11:45, my wife was in the bathroom, washing bits of Burbank off her face. I was in the bedroom twenty feet away, petting my cat, looking at the moon outside our window. Kate and I were doing the married thing, getting our stories straight after a long day. I’d just come back [...]

Michael Jackson died for our sins

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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When I heard that pop singer Michael Jackson had died, I could not help but remember what a staple he was in the late-night monologues. What would all the hacks, myself included, do now? Crypto-queer GOPers and philandering family-values types can only get you so far. Perhaps Roseanne Barr could be coaxed out of retirement [...]

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

Friday, January 16, 2009

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I happened across this excellent article from Salon, written upon the ascension of James Kaminsky to the editorship of Playboy in 2002. It’s right on the money, as far as–what the best magazines used to be; –why that worked for them, artistically AND financially;–why they changed to what they are now;–and why that destroys them, [...]

Unpacking my feelings about David Foster Wallace

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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The New Statesman has an interesting article about David Foster Wallace in light of his suicide. For various reasons, lately I’ve become more interested in Wallace, even though I have read only a smattering of his work. I am too impatient to enjoy his longer-form writing, as virtuosic as it clearly is. I acknowledge its [...]

Judging a “book” by its cover

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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I’m taking a break from writing (blogging in particular) for the summer and maybe longer. But there is a controversy afoot, a tiny little tornado in a teacup that, like the ringing of Pavlov’s bell, has wrung an inevitable response from me. I’m just as God made me, folks, a simple satirist and ex-magazine person [...]

Some Random Thoughts

Monday, February 4, 2008

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Random thought #1: I was as impressed as anybody during the regular season, and I was rooting for the Pats to win because the Giants bore the crap out me. But now that the Super Bowl is over, can we dispense with the idea that this year’s Pats team was the best ever? If the [...]

Okay, still busted….

Sunday, November 19, 2006

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…but I have faith that it will be fixed eventually, so here I am with some random thoughts: 1) I celebrated the Cardinals’ victory in the World Series with a bottle of Veuve-Clicquot. The trick to not becoming a lush is to cultivate sufficiently expensive tastes. 2) I celebrated Halloween at The Aero, a theater [...]

Reality: A dissenting view

Friday, July 28, 2006

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Several bloggers that I read and admire (okay, Jon Schwarz and Dennis Perrin) have posted recently about the crushingly bleak nature of reality. Jon linked to this Woody Allen interview in the Washington Post where, among other things, Allen reduces life to a concentration camp. Dennis, on the other hand, describes having a massive panic [...]

We have no chairs…

Friday, August 5, 2005

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…so I can’t type for long, but two things: 1) Santa Monica is GREAT. 2) There’s a great exchange of comments here at Jon Schwarz’s blog, Tiny Revolution (read down the thread). I didn’t want to besmirch the thread’s excellence by adding this factoid (you’ll see why), but I seem to recall from my reading [...]

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More on John Hughes

A few thoughts on John Hughes

Michael Jackson died for our sins

How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general

Unpacking my feelings about David Foster Wallace

Judging a “book” by its cover

Some Random Thoughts

Okay, still busted….

Reality: A dissenting view

We have no chairs…

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