The God Condition: Son of Man, Alien of Steel
If the Greeks taught us that the gods are human, and Christianity teaches us that a human is god, what does the third trailer for Man of Steel teach us? That the gods are alien, and that an alien is a...
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Time Is a Mouth: Elaine Kahn's Voluptuous Dream
I’ve got a short piece up at the City Lights Blog on SF poet Elaine Kahn: There’s a thread of disfiguring throughout that’s benign enough to be ominous — “I am cutting myself / out of a piece of...
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The Oblivion of Tom Cruise
I watched Oblivion a couple of days ago. Haters won’t be able to get past its shortcomings or acknowledge its topical relevance beyond superficial references to drones and the surveillance state. Good...
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Postmortem on the Colorado Deluge
For the past year I’ve lived in a valley at 6,500 feet, in a small community of homes tucked in the mountains of northern Colorado, surrounded by national forest. It’s just a fifteen-minute drive down...
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Gaga, Spears and Avril in a Time of Devastation
This is what the houses look like on the way to my house. Last week I returned home after being displaced for three months due to the September floods in Colorado. Undoing the devastation is both an...
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This Christmas, Bring Home Some Lightbringers
Heads up that THE LUCIFERIANS, the fifth and final book of Blood Work: The Apocalypse of Dan Hoy, is available as of Christmas Day over at Solar Luxuriance. Like the rest of the series: 33 copies, 33...
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The Impossible Situation: Altman Doing Star Wars
Kershner making it happen on the Carbon Freeze set of The Empire Strikes Back George Lucas’ first choice to direct Return of the Jedi was David Lynch. He wanted a gun for hire that didn’t belong to the...
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Montevidayites, ATLANTIS, book four of the Blood Work series and the last to be released, is now available in a limited edition of 33 copies from Deathbed Editions. http://deathbededitions.tumblr.com/...
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From the Motherland: The Apotheosis of Michael Jackson and Its Consequences
“I remember when your head caught flame.” – Lorde I passed through my motherland (Missouri) today, en route to Tennessee after abandoning my (not so) stronghold in the mountains of Colorado. For those...
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The Music Videos of Dan Hoy’s Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
A couple of Aprils ago I felt like making a version of 2001: A Space Odyssey with an alternate soundtrack just to draw out different tones and see what happens (Giorgio Moroder did this with...
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Hell on Earth: Work and the Fall of Man [sic]
[Note: I typically let these kinds of lexical slips slide, but every time I hear “man” or “mankind” as boilerplate applied to human beings (as in the title above) I can’t help but cringe and append...
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Mystical Materialism: Cargo Cults, Food Riots, Disease and the Political...
“I have an anxious and highly ambivalent relationship with food. This is informed by a thoroughly demoralizing struggle with digestive disease dating back to early childhood, and in my adult life with...
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Prisoners: A Prepper’s Nightmare
Prisoners takes as its protagonist Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), a man we might describe as a blue collar conservative Christian American who values family and self-reliance and views as intrinsically...
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