The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years […]
Adventures in Cooking: 10 Lessons Learned the Hard Way in 2006.
I’ve been cooking for a while now and I’d say I can make some decent stuff. You get to take […]
How I learned to stop scoffing and love Captain America.
Having never really read comics until about two years ago, I’m pretty new to all this comic book related stuff. […]
“The Western”: An American Mythology.
At not quite 250 years old, America is a new country. As is the case with all new nations, this […]
Not So Awesome Movies – Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1986).
I am a pretty big fan of portraying myself as a PFC (pretentious film cock for those not in the […]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Reevaluation of Hitler’s Russian “Blunder”.
Having read literally ONES of books on World War II, and perused literally TENS of Wikipedia articles on the subject, […]
The Merit of Genre: The Brief Lives of Black Metal and Die Brücke.
Here it is the end of January and I haven’t posted anything all month. Since I try to get at […]
The Safari Films of John Ford and Howard Hawks
John Ford and Howard Hawks are very tempting to lump together when talking about great American directors. And indeed, their […]
My Favorite Movies 4 – McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
There are few things I think of as fondly as American Westerns, but the movies of Robert Altman sure come […]
Rousing tales from Isley’s spirited past 1 – The BB Gun Letter
Being a rambunctious sort, my past is full of tales of derring-do and mischievous insubordination. In this series I will […]