On My Tweet About Mulholland Dr.The initial trappings of Mulholland Dr. are obvious — innocent, pretty young girl becomes trapped in the twisted world of Hollywood…Apr 27, 2021Apr 27, 2021
On eXistenZeXistenZ — Capital X, Capital Z. The game of games. Cronenberg’s bridge between the squishy-squeamy sex-pest films of his breakout career…Mar 17, 2021Mar 17, 2021
GOD’S LIQUOR CABINETAs it happened one of my wealthier friends was leaving town on short notice- something about a chemical plant in the northeast, poisonings…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
NOW, FOREVER, NEVEREvery time I visit the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, I am denied entry, due either to mass or- more often- matrimony. I tiptoe through the…Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
On CosmopolisEric Packer is dead, and we are his procession. We are as chilly of onlookers as Packer himself, at a camera angle just above and tilted…Feb 2, 2020Feb 2, 2020
The JewelboxesOne of the more incisive things I’ve ever heard about Uber is that one minute of Uber worker time will always equal one minute of…Dec 2, 2019Dec 2, 2019
A Good Eye Is Hard to FindThe literature-to-film pipeline has always been a lucrative field for Hollywood, now and in the past, but how a film is adapted has always…Nov 20, 2017Nov 20, 2017
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, the Twitter botThis is the only important paragraph, so it is the first.May 16, 2017May 16, 2017
Hilbert’s Grand HotelYou are the desk clerk at an upscale hotel, owned by a very wealthy mathematician named David Hilbert. Hilbert’s Grand Hotel is known…Feb 1, 2017Feb 1, 2017
