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May 2008


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5/30/08    Some thoughts on SEX AND THE CITY and the mainstream media response to Scott McClellan  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Keeping this entry brief:

If you look at today's LOS ANGELES TIMES calendar section (o...
5/28/08    More random notes.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

I just returned from Las Vegas, a city that's morphed in twenty years from family destination...
5/20/08    AOL Truthwatch: misleading headline re DANCING WITH THE STARS.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

I'm aware that the good people (who occasionally overindulge in snark as if it was marzipan) ...
5/19/08    Tarsem's THE FALL--and why you may see fewer arthouse films like it.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Film-and-video auteur Tarsem (who as Tarsem Singh directed the 2000 thriller THE CELL with Je...
5/16/08    James Frey's back again and providing a litmus test as to how you fit in with the literati.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

The good folks at AOL which give me the opportunity to blog have printed this snarky front-pa...
5/15/08    Keith Olbermann followed the war herd in 2003--will he do it again?  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Some of you reading this entry probably watched or read tonight's Keith Olbermann COUNTDOWN o...
5/10/08    POETISTA--a poem still relevant four years later.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

This poem was written in 2004, but is still relevant as a snapshot of how a certain level of ...
5/10/08    A symbiosis of sorts between SPEED RACER and how I perceive Los Angeles poetry.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Given the high value placed on uniformity of critical opinion, you may have been saturated wi...
5/8/08    Eric Priestley--poet from Watts--fighting to keep his home.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

An op-ed piece from former L.A. WEEKLY writer Erin Aubry Kaplan (now with THE LOS ANGELES TIM...
5/8/08    REDBELT: Did David Mamet crib from Buster Keaton?  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

David Mamet's homage to mixed martial arts and notions of honor vs. venality--REDBELT--will e...
5/8/08    USA TODAY: unfit troops being sent into combat.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Regardless of one's position on the War on Terror, this article in USA TODAY (linked onto AOL...
5/4/08    Some signs of the economic times.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

As the tidalwaves of the recession keep smashing onto the shores of the middle-class......
5/3/08    Sidney Blumenthal helps Hillary win ugly; fellow traveler Joe Conason lends support.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

"It's just politics" department:

Here's a link to Peter Dreier's HUFFINGTON POST colum...
5/2/08    AMPTP repeating bullying behavior with SAG during negotiations.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Here's a link to Nikki Finke's DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD DAILY column about the state of the current...
5/1/08    The annual E-Book Free for All is here again--passing along info.  posted by terrymcca (0 comments)

Passing along this e-mail from Rick Lupert of POETRY SUPERHIGHWAY fame about his annual E-Boo...
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