From We Belong Dead, Issue 31, published 2022
If you live in a place like New York or Tokyo, you’re used to seeing your hometown destroyed on screen. It’s a slow year if the Statue of Liberty isn’t decapitated in at least one movie.
I’ve spent most of my life in Kansas City, a mellow Midwestern town that’s often overlooked in popular culture. Except that one time in 1983, when we got obliterated in a nuclear war.
Continue reading “The Day After (1983)”
From Spotlight on Horror: Classics of the Cinefantastique, published 2020
From 1989-1993, I was part of a ragtag collective of aspiring artists who worked under the guidance of Adolfas Mekas, Peter Hutton, and John Pruitt. We were the People’s Film Department of Bard College, and they were our id, ego, and superego. Or, as my nerd friends and I called them, the Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
Continue reading “Long Live the People’s Film Department”Who will emerge victorious?
https://bluetowel.wordpress.com/2019/06/29/alternate-box-office-blockbuster-tourney-round-final/
My friend Ben McClure has an interesting experiment on his blog, in which I am a participant. I’ll let him explain it in the post. Suffice to say, I never thought I’d be choosing between Batman and Return of the King in any context.
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