My fellow Scrogue Denny Wilkins (Dr. Denny to you) passed along a great essay by Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review on the gradual disappearance of book […]
VerseDay: The imperative of political poetry
I’m not a political poet. Not for the most part, anyway. I certainly never wanted to be one, and I had been writing for a number of years before this finally happened: […]
VerseDay: The futility of unconventional poetry
I’m a poet. Whether I’m a good one or a bad one is, I suppose, open to debate. But the fundamental fact of my life and career is that the business activities […]
Ingmar Bergman and the cinema of self-evaluation…
Ingmar Bergman, a giant of 20th century cinema, died yesterday. He was 89. That’s the news. But that’s not what we should be talking about today as we enter the “re-evaluation” phase […]
Harry Potter and the Pile of Drivel
Once upon a time there were great children’s books If you’ve never read Neverending Story, or the Narnia series, or the Tripods series by John Christopher, or anything by Terry Pratchett (most […]
“On The Road” at fifty…goring a Boomer sacred cow….
Old Man: “What are you rebelling against?” Johnny Stabler (Marlon Brando): “What you got?” –The Wild One (1954) 2007 is a year filled with Boomer anniversaries – the 40th anniversary of Monterrey […]
The apple doesn’t fall as far from the tree as George Bush would like
Scholars & Rogues is pleased to present our first Guest Scrogue. Russ Wellen is an editor at Freezerbox and OpEdNews and a frequent blogger at AlterNet. -=- “FDR is a model presidential […]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Food and its discontents
By Robert Silvey Michael Pollan’s delectable new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, examines the wretched state of modern agriculture—and the unhealthy relationship most of us have with what we eat—by tracing the origin […]
It’s alway 1984 somewhere…
Today is the 58th anniversary of the publication of 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a corporatized totalitarian world where “Big Brother” is always watching and where the art of “double-think” (holding […]
It Came From Hollywood!
We went to see Once yesterday, and I came to an annoying realization. First off, let’s get this out of the way: go see this movie right now. I guess it’s a […]
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