
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen



An tribute to the late great film critic
February 1st, 2013
Thomas Barrow and TV's trouble with 'the Gay Character'
April 16th, 2013

Walter White's Rebellion
July 13th, 2012
The evolution of the flâneur
February 2nd, 2013
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012


All King's novels, even the stinkers, have resonance.
July 17th, 2012
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
It was decided, a species of what we might call a “postmodern general strike” will come lumbering out of the revolutionary textbook.
November 12th, 2011


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More