Urban Honking

Plazm #30: our 20th Anniversary Issue We’ve got another big, beautiful magazine ready to go to press. Issue #30 features David Lynch, Bruce Sterling, and many other excellent artists and writers. We just need donations to help print it. We even got a grant, because high quality printing on truly good paper is very expensive […]

Anthony Lane maybe has fallen off the wagon of righteousness in recent days/years–but I insist that his collection of reviews, Nobody’s Perfect is filled with such delightfully cruel lines, such LOLs, that it’s worth a read. I cannot defend these particular reviews Regarding writes of I can say this is really really mean and funny […]

Ah, the boys of the New Yorker. You’ve gotta love ’em. Wait, do I? Do I have to love them? I have been increasingly irritated by the New Yorker, my all-time favorite publication, and its admirably staunch refusal to feature more than a couple token female writers every third issue or so (there have been […]

A few years ago I stopped reading the New Yorker fiction section and began to wonder about the state of mind and marriage of whoever edited that section. Seemingly three years straight, save for the occasional immigrant tale or magical realist African fable, every single story that ran was some horrible, depressing story about the […]

Well! If I have ever used the phrase “run, don’t walk,” to tell you to do something, I have never meant it more than I do now, when I say run, don’t walk, to your nearest cinema multiplex, and pay your money and receive your ticket and sit in the theater and laugh and laugh […]

The Guerrilla Girls created this original piece for Plazm issue #9. Now that Newt has announced he is running for President, if you can believe that, it’s time to dust it off again. Full size view — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog […]

The return of the great Steve Schroeder is almost upon us. I find myself very excited about his return to my social orbit and the promise of moving forward on various projects and activities that can only happen with a dash of that essential “Steve” in them. The greatest of course being the revival of […]

In honor of me about to see “Bridesmaids”–as you should all similarly be about to do (VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS, PEOPLE, RALPH NADER TAUGHT US THIS)–let us all bask in the terrible gender stereotype of the rom-com female, who, as the recent terrifying New Yorker article on Anna Farristaught us, is constantly falling down because […]

My friend told me her right-wing father sent her an email that said “here’s a picture of the Pakistani informant who told Obama where to find bin Laden!” and then it was a doctored picture of George W. Bush made to look like a racist caricature of an Arabic Muslim (turban, cartoonishly hooked nose, etc.). […]

I saw the last Claire Denis movie I saw, 35 Shots of Rum ( despite the title, it’s not the follow-up to Cocktail) which I saw in a New York Movie Theatre with my super-cool friend Mary Manning, who always knows about the coolest movies. I didn’t exactly like it, mostly because I didn’t understand […]