Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson (based on David Ayers’s original screenplay); Cast: Ian McKellan, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, and Josh Groban When I first heard that Wes Anderson would be remaking Training Day,…
2 Much Guff—The hotly anticipated sequel to Enough, Guff! rebuffs everything, including itself. — Guod Ynnuf, Prid, NJ
To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to express my particular interest in a teaching position at Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior High School. While I have no teaching experience per se, I did get…
There’s no point in not starting with the greatest bit of Mad Men insanity, is there? Of course there’s not. Apart from being the best imaginable sendoff for Robert Morse (1), Don has a habit (2)…
Ideas for Goggles—Like, reflective; 3D; smello-vision, etc. — Capt. Jeanne Reno, Port Republic, WA
Thank you so much kids for gathering here on such short notice for an all-hands meeting in the living room. I realize that your afternoon playtime is valuable and I wouldn’t bring you here if it…
This piece is part of Waterfronts, a series of personal essays that engage with the waterways of New York and/or Los Angeles, presented in collaboration with Underwater New York. I’ve worked on ships. I can talk about…
Pork-Fried Champs—A group of committed athletes decide that, while they would like to win a championship they are also unwilling to give up on eating fried pork. As a compromise, they decide that they will become…
Gemini (22 May – 21 June) Spring has sprung, the rose doth bloom more ruddy ‘neath the dew, and local fauns will decide you might be “one of the good ones” after all—even given That Thing…
Many writers have had a Salinger year, a period in which they read every word Jerome David Salinger ever published. It’s a common effect Salinger has on writers and readers. Once bitten by the Salinger bug,…
Star Wars: The Novels—Nothing could be simpler than taking the wildly popular Star Wars film franchise and extrapolating a bunch of other crap about it in book form. We could start with the children of Leia…
Blue Metropolis Literary Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada Five Stars I was recently in Montréal for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival. The grand prize winner of the festival this year was the American Richard Ford, winner…
Director: Kenny Ortega; Cast: Alison Janney, Saoirse Ronan, “Nubbins” The challenge of modern horror is to show us something new, amidst the minefield of exhausted franchises and self-referential irony-fests. With When No One Calls, television director…
Robot Book—Pretty much reads itself. — Nuff Sed, Gorptown, PA
When you sign up for a woodworking class, you don’t expect it to be much more than the advertised four-hour class; I just wanted to meet some people and take a break from working on my…