Wailing Into The Void

Idea #1:  Don’t try something like this. 

This movie works better when seen as a story of the irrational behavior of a severely depressed man as opposed to a story of redemption.  I’ll let the professionals hash it out from here.

Somehow I missed this story during the post-election decompression.  Will Smith, you need to start dialing it back a few notches.  And please feel free to respond to my calling you out by posting a comment here.

Andrew Sullivan links to a fascinating interview  from the late 1980’s between Allen Ginsberg and John Lofton.  Lofton is a former Washington Times columnist and a current crazy right wing blogger.  Here’s a teaser:

LOFTON: Well, that’s certainly what S&M is all about—power.

GINSBERG: And you seem to like that don’t you? Have your sexual fantasies ever involved that kind of power relationship?

LOFTON: No, not to my knowledge, I’m a Christian. So I don’t fantasize.

GINSBERG: Do you ever have sexual fantasies?

LOFTON: No.

GINSBERG: None at all?

LOFTON: No, I said I am a Christian.

GINSBERG: You’ve never had any sexual fantasies!

LOFTON: Before I was a Christian, I had them, absolutely.

GINSBERG: And since you’re a Christian you don’t?

LOFTON: No.

GINSBERG: And when you had them, did they involve any dominance/submission fantasies!

LOFTON: Mine were pretty orthodox heterosexual kinds of fantasies. But there’s no doubt they were bad. And I am so glad that Jesus Christ delivered me from them.

GINSBERG: You have no erotic dreams now, at all, that you remember!

LOFTON: None that don’t feature my wife, no.

GINSBERG: Yeah.

LOFTON: It’s an amazing thing what Jesus can do for a person.

GINSBERG: Uh-huh.

I missed this from a few weeks ago:

After 21 years, and almost 40 million posts (we’ll have to check those numbers, but it’s something like that), we have decided to bring FJM to an end.

Doesn’t the Sci-Fi Channel have anything better to air than Mork & Mindy re-runs?

This photo is not of Yankee Stadium, Google. C’mon.  It looks like the Polo Grounds to me, although I’m not positive about that.

Google now has the LIFE photo archive up.  I’m grateful for the new time-waster but wondering who’s in charge of the captioning these photos.  I’m pretty sure the photo below is of the Williamsburg Bridge, not the Brooklyn Bridge as Google is trying to tell me.

If you followed the DNC hearings on the Florida and Michigan primary votes as closely as I did you have to watch this until the end. It’s worth it. Trust me.

It’s still weird, though.