I’ve pretty much given up on my campaign to mock and/or eliminate Parade Magazine. It’s an embarrassing publication that no self-respecting American newspaper should include, but it’s not worth the time to regularly dissect its inanity. Particularly when it can embarrass itself so well. This morning’s Parade Magazine (January 6th, 2008) cover article is on […]
Parade
On Parade
For a short time, I was running a bit where I would re-answer questions sent to Walter Scott’s Personality Parade™, one of the most odiously irrelevant and self-congratulatory bits of cultural fluff in the lint screen we call popular culture. While I was inspired to write it out of true anger at its existence, the […]
The Nines at Cannes
In case you’re wandering La Croisette, wondering where all the interlocking three-part dramas with unexpected science-fiction elements are, you might want to check out The Nines, which has three market screenings scheduled this week: * Wednesday, May 16th at 12:00pm – Palais K (Market) * Friday, May 18th at 8:00pm – Palais K (Market) * […]
Eddie Murphy on Parade
Several readers have expressed bewilderment at this site’s weekly Parade feature, asking, “What is the point, exactly?” That’s a question worthy of koan-like contemplation: can utter pointlessness have a point? International readers in particular have no frame of reference for Parade, so let me offer the briefest of introductions. Parade comes free in the Sunday […]