Now that I’ve emerged from my symbolic journey through the desert that took place over the last few months, I need to start cracking away at a variety of topics that have sparked my interest lately. The timeliest of those topics is WikiLeaks, a site that I heard about a few weeks ago via an [...]
Posts under ‘television’
Tom Burrell On His Book ‘Brainwashed’
I feel like everything I’ve been working on is suddenly coming together with a new clarity. On March 18 NPR ran an excellent interview with Tom Burrell, who worked in the advertising industry for 40 years and just published a book called Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. I find Burrell’s story to be [...]
The Co-opting of Youth Culture
Yesterday I took my little sister to the mall to pick up a DVD and look for anything related to Alice in Wonderland. She’s really, really excited about the upcoming remake — and it makes me sad to think that this younger generation won’t be as critical of these so-called “films,” these CGI landfills. But [...]
Reality TV’s Answer to Self-Analysis
The past few posts have been pretty heavy. Or maybe that’s a matter of taste. Some might claim that the only light post on this blog so far was the horror movie guide last Halloween. And anyone making that claim wouldn’t be totally incorrect. Either way, I owe you a “light” post, and my idea [...]
The Suffocating Aura of Television, 1990 to Now
David Foster Wallace was a new name when an acquaintance lent me the book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Inside the 1997 collection of essays and articles, a bookmark had been placed at a selection titled “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” an 80-odd-page exploration of the relationship between TV and [...]
