MEDIA DIET
Deb Chachra on: the Library app, Midnight Radio, Vancouver museums.
PLANET OF PERIL (49)
TALKING CARS & DUMMIES
16th
Dec
Dec
Philip K. Dick
“My books (& stories) are intellectual (conceptual) mazes & I am in an intellectual maze in trying to figure out our situation (who we...
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15th
Dec
Dec
Special Guest, Enoch Soames
Charlie Rose: Tonight on the show we have a very special guest, Enoch Soames, long thought to be a fictional character. In Max Beerbohm’s...
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15th
Dec
Dec
Teletheremin-athon
Dr. Mabuse has sensed a disturbance in the Force. He has been instructed by Morpheus to conduct a spirit telethon. [still from Dr. Mabuse,...
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15th
Dec
Dec
The Book is a Weapon (11)
Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson (Frank Cellier) inspects a Church Hymnary that has stopped a bullet intended...
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15th
Dec
Dec
Paul Simonon
The Clash was on the front lines of the punk revolution of the late 1970s, but bassist PAUL SIMONON (born 1955) shared some similarities...
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14th
Dec
Dec
Love and Tentacles
A few months ago, a friend of mine started Twittering his doodles. An irrepressible draftsman, Walter Sickert has the kind of old-skool muse that...
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14th
Dec
Dec
The Dogs in the Trees
The first sightings of dogs in trees were reported not long after the Fall equinox. Early rumor came in the form of videos shot...
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14th
Dec
Dec
Lester Bangs
Strictly speaking it’s Meltzer who’s the hilo hero, who inverted the language of academe in pursuit of the rock thrill, but here’s what puts...
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