WHY DO YOU INSIST ON MARKETING to us as though we were all ignorant, venal, cynical, cruel, swinish oafs? We at The Metaphorager decry these loutish generalizations and will boycott the offending generalizers: we may not starve you into submission,…
Tag: Media
Fish talking about water.
Another “Next Big Thing”
“LOOMING” (N): PEOPLE BEHIND STUFF.
Pithyism #108
WITH THE ADVENT OF BLOGGING, men of letters have become men of keystrokes.
What I Stand, For
HAVING JUST RECEIVED ORDERS FROM Fearless Leader to define my principles in 106 characters or less and then disperse them yea seedlike to the multitudes, I replied as follows: Clearer thinking. Don’t litter. Say “please” and “thank you” and mean…
Ol’ Thinkypants’ Question For The Producers
“WHEN DID ART BEGIN TO be about purging one’s personal demons instead of making people smile, wonder or otherwise get over themselves?”
Why “Carmageddon” Didn’t Happen
THEY SHOULD HAVE CALLED IT “Carpocalypse.” %$#@!ing publicists.
Synoptipitch: Firefly
“It’s like if Star Wars were about Han Solo, but without aliens and blasters and hyperdrives, with the Jedi a 14-year-old induced-psychotic girl and sprinkled heavily with Old West individual-vs-the-Man subtext. Oh, and written by geeks. That’s Firefly.”
Consensual Art: Do Not Screen
THE LAST MAIL-ART PROJECT I “did” was a series of one or two audiocassette collages with (sub)genius co-conspirators Alan K. Lipton and David Wilson circa 198x-199x. We’d record a bunch of weird stuff and send it on to the next…
Click A Laugh A Day
“COMIX” IS TO “COMICS” AS Zippy the Pinhead is to Snoopy, or Robert Crumb is to Jack Kirby: irreverent satire rather than bemuscled superheroes. The Internet has made it easier for would-be comix artists to reach an audience, and the…
Today’s Most Tweeted Non-Mark Twain Quote
“I’VE NEVER WISHED A MAN dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” Whether or not Mr. Twain actually Why Clarence Darrow said these words I do not know. But for those having difficulty cheering one more death,…
Sign In A Radio Newsroom, c. 1993
SAW THIS WHERE I FIRST interned as “Neal Ross.” I was naive enough then to think it merely humorous. Cub reporter: “If it’s news, I report it.” Old journalist: “If I report it, it’s news.” Newsman Emeritus: When I report…
Cinematic Question: Shifting Allegiances
SINCE WHEN, IN THE MOVIES, did the Romans become the good guys?