And here’s Part Two and Part Three. They don’t make television like this anymore. Name a single interviewer today who would openly call a mass…
Well, I thought I’d get the third and final Alternative Press Expo podcast up today, but other things — namely, lower back pain caused by…
CONDITION OF MR. SEGUNDO: Longing for phone numbers and fistfights. GUESTS: Julia Wertz, Julie Walker, Levni R. Yilmaz, Bill Morse, Neil Fitzpatrick, Brandon Bird, Ming…
Rupert Thomson is coming to New York and Maud will be interviewing him at McNally Robinson on Friday, August 17, at 7:00 PM. I’ve expressed…
A saner man would simply throw his issue of Parade into the dustbin, pretending that the dreaded Sunday supplement simply wasn’t a part of the…
I have also learned from a reader that Tom Snyder died on Sunday — a day after I wrote at length about him. This too…
Ingmar Bergman is dead. My first Bergman experience involved seeing a 16mm print of Persona as a teenager and becoming thoroughly lost in its dreamlike…
The sixth Torrent pack of The Bat Segundo Show, containing Shows #101-120 and featuring interviews with Martin Amis, Ron Jeremy, Lionel Shriver, Berkeley Breathed, and…
The IMDB reports that Diary of the Dead, written and directed by George A. Romero, has been completed and has European distributors lined up. The…
Walkscore. My neighborhood scores a 78. My old neighborhood in San Francisco scores a 98.
Jerome Weeks cracks open the spine of Gail Pool’s Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America — that book that Orthofer mentioned a…
The reputedly intelligent Sven Birkerts has entered into the print vs. online fray in today’s Boston Globe. He very kindly cites me, as well as…
And here’s Part 2 of the John Lydon vs. Tom Snyder exchange. RELATED: Wendy O. Williams smashing a television set and Snyder interview. More on…
[This is the first in a series of podcasts devoted to Alternative Press Expo 2007.] GUESTS: Carmen Ogden, Heather Morgan, Jess from CW, Sacha Arnold,…
Variety: “Johnny Depp is getting in touch with his inner vampire. Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films to develop…
The first dirty little secret of writing a review for Sam Tanenhaus is to come across like an ill-informed wanker who knows nothing of the…
Craig Davidson offers this lengthy account of Tuesday night’s boxing match, observing, “Jonathan’s dating the singer Fiona Apple. So that’s pretty cool. I’m thinking, hell,…
The August issue of Harper’s contains, in its Readings section, a fantastic sentencing memorandum offered by Judge Gregory R. Todd, in the case of Montana…
Several groups of men have, at long last, discovered the true evil that lurks beneath the nightlife underbelly and have initiated the appropriate legislation to…
This Baltimore Sun item describes how the big box bookstores are no longer placing the nooks, crannies, and chairs that were once de rigueur a…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Revisiting his flipbook-authoring hobby. Author: Steven Hall Subjects Discussed: The relationship between narrative and text design, textual malapropisms, speculating upon “wooden”…
Hollywood Reporter: “Mickey Mouse went cold turkey Wednesday when the Walt Disney Co. told influential Congressman Ed Markey that it will ban smoking from the…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Attempting to understand Tasmanians. Author: Richard Flanagan Subjects Discussed: The novel as a warning, interviews with overly serious journalists, the novel…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating an ethnic switch to Russian. Author: Gary Shteyngart Subjects Discussed: Prince Myshkin and Misha Vainberg, Doestoevsky as a muse, fat…
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