The sleepy pit bull is always a comfort.
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
The plight of the USS Lincoln shows Trump hates the troops. (Public Notice)
There’s no evidence El-Sayed is a bad GE candidate. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Schindler’s List and gentile liberal Zionism. (EIH)
Hopkins’ poetry as an alternative to Christofascism. (EIH)
The Killers is almost a great noir…but gets distracted by patriarchy. (Splice Today)
The gentle erasure of grief in My Neighbor Totoro. (EIH)
An American Werewolf in London refuses to moralize. (EIH)
Poetry
Walking around outside poem. (Five Fleas)
electric city sounds
car alarm
cicadas
From the archive
Double Psycho Misogyny
Above is a famous still from Billy Wilder’s 1944 classic noir Double Indemnity. Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) is sitting in her stopped car, looking straight ahead as, offscreen, her lover and accomplice Walter (Fred MacMurray) strangles her husband as per their intricate, preconceived plot.
