Archive for October, 2002

Brother, Can You Spare a Zine?

?Salon's independent accountants have included a paragraph in their report for the fiscal years ending March 31, 2002 and 2001 indicating that substantial doubt exists as to Salon's ability to continue as a going concern because it has recurring operating losses and negative cash flows, and an accumulated deficit.? - from Salon?s latest 10-Q, for [...]

Stealing Llamas

I awake in the damp cell that serves as my bedroom. Ordinarily, the moss creeping along the walls would be a comfort to my mutated, plant-covered body. But the frigid chill in the air reminds me it's just another day in the service of Thoom - Lord of Destruction, Scourge of Mysticana, and complete failure. I [...]

Red Dragon

"Fear comes with imagination, it's the penalty, it's the price of imagination."--from Red Dragon by Thomas Harris Dr. Lecter, I presume? The crime thriller, a combination of the classic pulp thriller and "true crime" accounts of the 1950s and '60s, was beginning to solidify into its own genre by 1981, when Thomas Harris published his second novel, [...]

The Transporter

Frank (Jason Statham) and a thug engage in foreplay. To say The Transporter is a bad movie is largely beside the point. I could write a review about how the movie is a plotless meandering action farce, that some of the lines are so clich?d the movie comes off as a parody of itself, that director [...]