Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him. (Public Notice)
Trump wouldn’t promise cash if he’d rigged the midterms. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
On “Choosin’ Texas,” country music, and racism. (EIH)
How to movie critic. (EIH)
The Prowler is an anti-cop noir. (Splice Today)
On the Cramps new/old album and how they are the original rockabilly. (Splice Today)
Verity offers female villains for everyone. (Splice Today)
The President’s Analyst and politics eating your brain. (EIH)
Project Runway doesn’t care about your creative vision. (EIH)
Poetry
Roberta Beach Jacobson nominated one of my poems for Best of the Net. (Five Fleas)
M.
You sleep around my sleep
because you dream of me
while I dream of you or
because the other way around or
because you went to sleep first
and woke up later.
A parable. (dadakuku)
Dare to Dream
not like that
From the archive
Femme Fatale And The Joy of Castration
Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale (2002) is a kind of inverse body double of his earlier film Body Double (1984). Both movies are obsessed with undermining, or castrating, the male gaze. Where Body Double frames the male viewer as impotent and frozen outside the narrative, though,
Track of the week
Post-rock jazz coolness.
