The French philosopher Simone Weil once said that “the beauty of the world is like the mouth of […]
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.
Cults and multilevel marketing schemes are more American than apple pie, it turns out.
I’ve gotten physically assaulted by anti-trans psychos twice in the last few months, but… like the limo driver in The Big Lebowski, I can’t complain.
Like so many things in American life, this momentous and catastrophic event should teach us a lot but has instead gone down the memory hole.
In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
Panic in Echo Park provides a fascinating slice-of-life take on 1970s LA, as well as Hollywood’s awkward effort to be more inclusive and with-it.
They say that comedy is tragedy plus time; one could say the same for nostalgia, but in any case, the key ingredient is time.