Urban Honking

The tenth anniversary is here! The tenth anniversary is here! It’s crazy how long it’s been. It’s crazy that my students were EIGHT when it happened. I wonder how it appears to them in memory. Hazy and bizarre. Like my memory of the Challenger? I remember all the high schoolers crying. “Now class, we will […]

I saw that! We rented it after hearing its creators discuss it on an episode of Doug Loves Movies. It sounded very weird. I also remembered that it got terrible reviews from both jackasses and smart people, which I always find interests me in a film that is not, like, of the “Scary Movie” franchise […]

I know I knew, right away, as the movie was happening, what was wrong about Miranda July’s THE FUTURE, but I needed a few days to marinate, to make sure, because it I am reluctant to say it, as someone who is, generally, a fan of her work. I think I am more a fan […]

Yay us! From the front page of the art/living section: Plazm’s transfusion gives the art and culture ‘zine new money, new energy Barry Johnson / Special to The Oregonian The new Plazm magazine is the heftiest yet, almost 180 pages jammed with photography, art, stories and a crazy quilt of graphic design ideas that manage […]

Ok, guys, gals, whomever is reading this. I might get to go see a movie this week (I know that makes it sound like I am on house arrest) and am considering Miranda July’s new one, The Future. When he last one came out, I wrote a bunch abut it rather hyperbolically, that it was […]

I went and saw “the Trip.” It was so good. I wrote it up for I Saw That but I feel I did not do it justice. Then I just watched clips from Tristram Shandy on youtube for awhile. Tomorrow I turn 34 years old. How did this happen? Katy told me the other day […]

Well! We went downtown to the fancy Living Room theater where you can get beer and wine and champagne and all kinds of food delivered to you as you recline on a sofa-like seat in a small pleasant screening room. How can the ticket price be the same as a regular film down at the […]

J. Hopper has been completely tearing it/ass up in here, during my amazingly lengthy absence, and I for one salute her and all that she stands for. It is true that I very quite nearly cut off my own arm in a freak dishwashing accident involving an Ikea bowl (unfortunately thrifted thus un-litigatable, as I […]

I am almost loathe–quite nearly!–to review this just because I was hoping that dear Regarding (she has been on the mend from nearly severing her arm in a freak dishwashing accident–QUITE NEARLY!) who is a veritable EXPERT on this movies subject, would review it first and just regale us with the grand backstory of ONE […]

Wooden Spoon  /ˈwʊdn spun/ —noun A figure intent on erasing itself. Corner-blind; a neck and a cheek, only. The entire faceless darling an instinct of soup.   –origin There was a time when a wooden spoon might be a girl’s only worldly belonging. If afforded some clarity before death, she might will it to her […]