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“Don’t you think the world’s greatest game artist out to be punished for the most effective deforming of reality?” From eXistenZ. David Cronenberg. 1999.

Panel Busting, iterations 1-4 at The Oxford American. Coming soon there: a clue about a Civil War deserter.

When machines see for us, at Berfrois.

Parts I  II  III  IV & V of “The Revelation at the Rampart” have been published over at 3:AM Magazine, complete with audio (part II).

A long half-century’s drift into meta-. 1962. Cliff Richard and the Shadows: 1965. The Beach Boys: 1979. The Ramones: 1981. The Ramones:

The Blue Velvet Project at Filmmaker Magazine began one-year ago on August 8, and will end with post #152 on August 17. A bit of coverage of the project at A Piece of Monologue, The Rumpus, and HiLobrow. And and end-of-project … Continue reading →

A new issue of Frames Cinema Journal has been published, guest-edited by film scholar extraordinaire Catherine Grant of the University of Sussex. There are essays and video-essays by a range of writers, including Kristin Thompson, Adrian Martin, Girish Shambu, and … Continue reading →

Good things are happening over at Fiddleblack. They will be redeveloping Clive Barker’s novella Cabal, with the participation of Barker himself and essays and appreciations from a range of writers and editors. And later this year they’ll publish Apparitional Experience, … Continue reading →

“Go Go Girl” appeared on the first and only album by the New Wave band Nervus Rex.

I was happy to see that ShortList Magazine selected A Cultural Dictionary of Punk (which Publishers Weekly called “a personal investigation into the significance of punk rock, an attempt to inject critical studies with ‘a big dose of chaos and anarchy’ and … Continue reading →