Please Talk About Me When I’m Gone*
Sean MurphyL’amour de l’art fait perdre l’amour vrai. I did not say that. Although that is...
Whispered Words*
How long will it take? I did not ask, because I wanted to make every...
Pythagoras*
I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience, but my grief has made me, against all...
Strictly Business (Class): The Dreaded Day Trip*
A.M.: Departure Early, at the airport. Look around: some of the pretty people, many of...
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality (6/09)
Anyone who happened to miss this piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, entitled My Guantánamo Nightmare should...
Human Connections, Missed Connections, Chance Connections: ‘Three Colors: Blue, White, Red’
Words need not be minced here: the Criterion Collection treatment of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy is...
We Shall Overcome
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it...
Remembering (and Celebrating) The Kids In The Hall (7/10)
This weekend PopMatters is revisiting an outstanding feature from a couple of years ago: The...
There’s Just A Meanness In This World (11/09)
As obstreperously opposed to the death penalty as I remain, it is nevertheless difficult to...
Alligator Lizards in the Air: In Search of the Sublimely Awful Lyric (9/09)
I can think of a lot of rock bands who have written some laughably awful...