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2010-09-01 Donuts at 2 A.M.: August, the Mother of All Months by Gary Phillips
Did anyone really believe this Don Draper crossed with Lonesome Rhodes would succeed in hijacking the legacy of the momentous March on Washington?
2010-08-04 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Shape of Things to Come by Gary Phillips
Just when I’m ready to ignore one more overdue notice from the L.A. Times, son-of-a-gun if they don’t prove there yet remains a reason for the daily newspaper.
2010-07-30 California Dreaming: Working by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I worked on one project only, over and over again: proofreading 38 minutely differing versions of the same insurance company brochure, broken up into regions …
2010-07-23 California Dreaming: Some More, Please by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I listen to the Mel Gibson tapes, and the lawyers’ takes on their admissibility. I am the reason the Huffington Post overpromises so gloriously in its hyperventilating headlines.
2010-07-21 Donuts at 2 A.M.: Vooking by Gary Phillips
In this past Sunday’s front page story in the L.A. Times, there’s a passage more chilling than the chest burster ripping out of John Hurt in the first Alien.

 

Latest Weblog Posts

2010-08-26 You Won’t Be Sorry by Donna Schoenkopf
You won’t be sorry if you read the writing of Ann Calhoun.
2010-08-13 The LA Times Can Tell If You’re Gay by Jim Washburn
At least it can with Judge Walker.
2010-07-24 Awkward Headline of the Week: Gay Soldier’s Discharge by Jim Washburn
The OC Register shows its usual tact.
2010-07-15 Mr. Pekar by Gary Phillips
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor, comics.
2010-07-15 Evolution by Donna Schoenkopf
Teillhard de Chardin had it right.