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You know you’ve made it big as an artist when your creation is appropriated for use as a cultural meme…copyright be damned. I was talking to somebody recently about how everybody these days knows the character Calvin from Bill Watterson‘s imaginative “Calvin and Hobbes” as that evil little kid who pisses on Chevy logos. Relatively…

Last year I wrote a tiny article for the Village Voice that exposed Michael Bay’s “The Island” — starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson — as a rip off of the 1978 sci-fi opus “Parts: The Clonus Horror.” Well, after I had a long talk with “Clonus” director Robert Fiveson, he decided to launch a…

How ya like me now? Yeah, baby, that’s genuine velour.

Salon.com has a new, super looooong interview (5 web pages) with superstar culture critic Camille Paglia. Camille takes on the Left, the Right, slams the media for creating a gay backlash with the Mark Foley “scandal” and generally goes against the grain…as usual. An entertaining read. How many sacred cows does she trample on? How…

36 years ago this week (October 29th, to be precise) saw the release of legendary director Billy Wilder‘s grandest production — The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The movie, intended as a “road show” extravaganza costing the then princely sum of $10 million, turned out to be the director’s biggest flop, grossing only $1.5 million…

Busy couple of weeks. Got my car broken into AGAIN. This time they busted out the window and took my prescription sunglasses. Nice. Went to the State Fair of Texas twice…once as part of a work-mandated trip. Hey, they bought the tickets and gave me a shitload of coupons. Biggest disappointment: the much talked about…

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Picked up a copy of the new Easy Star All-Stars album, Radiodread, this weekend on a trip to Austin. The CD is a track-by-track, reggae version of Radiohead‘s OK Computer from the NYC crew who brought you Dub Side of the Moon — a track-by-track, reggae version of Pink Floyd‘s Dark Side of the Moon….

Wired has a list of the Best Public Domain Movies. Nice to see that one of my faves, Detour the sleazy, Edgar Ulmer-directed Noir from 1945 made the list at number one. I really like the Fleischer Superman cartoons from the early ’40s as well. We’ll have to agree to disagree that Santa Claus Conquers…

Here’s the best thing I’ve seen all week.