Tag: Television

07 Oct

And the strangeness of our public discourse

the strangeness of our public discourse: there should be a distinction between news and entertainment
02 Oct

Damn, PBS rocks — even if they are quietly selling out to the Man for funding

Bob Dylan, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right 1963
26 Apr

The Return of the big plastic headed King

This neverending Burger King campaign — waking up in bed next to a burger toting, big plastic headed King — makes me cringe in a Buñuel/Dali eye-slicing way. And not just because I’m vegetarian. In Un Chien Andalou, Bunuel shocks and scandalizes the viewer by juxtaposing what is generally [...]