Time to state the obvious: people who say “it’s so bad it’s good” are intellectual cowards. They are hiding behind a pose of irony and camp, afraid to make a sincere public commitment to their own taste. Camp itself, as defined by Susan Sontag was always supposed to be a subversive, rebellious impulse, but she …
Month: May 2017
Op-ed
It is so sad that no new movies have been made in Hollywood since the late 90s. They were getting pretty thin even then, but after the fin de siècle, I quit wasting my time in those arid, antiseptic chrome and neon crap-factories. I miss going to the movies like I did when I was …
The Dance of Changes
Summer hills in California are yellow with sunburnt foxtail and mustard weed. Imagine your way back before their seeds were brought from Spain caught in the wool of sheep. Imagine the short grass still green around Painted Rock under a solstice moon. See the robes of pelican and eagle feathers bounce and float, bounce and …
Jedediah Smith 