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An Interview with Me at Untoward

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, Agnès Varda, Dalkey Archive Press, David Foster Wallace, Curtis White, Lawrence and Gibson, Charles Baudelaire, Mutable Sound, Peter Greenaway, Batman, G.I. Joe, Viktor Shklovsky, George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, Marina Abramović, Apollonian, Dionysian, Inception, Television, Situationist International, Mike Kitchell, Aurora Tabar, Amira Hanafi, Ayn Rand, Giant Slugs, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Super Mario Bros., Gilgamesh, geek culture, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Epic of Gilgamesh, ninjas, Untoward Magazine, Matt Rowan, Ota Benga, walking art, Michelle Tupko, Hamish Fulton, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Francis Alÿs, dérive, flâneur, gleaner, Sin-liqe-unninni, Legend of Zelda, ALF, Iraq, Iraq War, Uruk, Sumeria, cuneiform, The Spirit of Disobedience on June 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy), G.I. Joe, geek culture, Ota Benga, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and bad writing habits; we also discuss Curtis White, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, and ninjas, among other things. [Update: Part Two, which focuses more on [...]

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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 7-Eleven, A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, A Mind Forever Voyaging, A Simple Twist of Fate, Alexander Kluge, alien, apichatpong weerasethakul, Applebee’s, Back to the Future, Bangkok, Blissfully Yours, Chicago Metra, Daily Variety, David Bowie, Der große Verhau, Duncan Jones, DVDSavant, Fantastic Four, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Howard Hawks, Inception, Invaders from Mars, Jean Luc Godard, Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy M. Davies, Justin, Kick the Machine, kluge, La jetée, Michael Crichton, mindfuck films, Monica Bellucci, Moon, Mysterious Object at Noon, Pauline Kael, Philip K. Dick, Planet of the Vampires, Quantum Leap, Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonald’s, Sakda Kaewbuadee, salapao, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, science-fiction, Scott Bakula, Sliding Doors, Source Code, Stan Lee, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Syndromes and a Century, Tears of the Black Tiger, technobabble, Thai, Thailand, The Big Mess, Thor, time travel, Tropical Malady, Unbreakable, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Vera Farmiga, Wesley Willis, Wisit Sasanatieng on May 23, 2011 | 15 Comments »

[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service at an Applebee’s, following a screening of Duncan Jones’s Source Code. Increasingly hungry, increasingly desperate, we debated the nutritional value of our napkins and tablecloths, before Jeremy remembered that Applebee’s coats all such textiles in [...]

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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work!!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged EC Comics, G.I. Joe, Galaxy Science Fiction, Joel Johnson, Larry Hama, MAD Magazine, The Crying of Lot 49, The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, Thomas Pynchon, Wally Wood, Weird Fantasy, Weird Science on April 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I recently acquired Kitchen Sink’s The Outer Space Spirit collection, two months’ worth of Spirit comic strips from 1952, written by Jules Feiffer (yes) and drawn by Wally Wood. They are truly something—and I’ll write more about them soon, soon. In the meantime, I wanted to call some attention to “Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That [...]

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Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 40 Comments »

On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything by him; I knew some people liked him and some didn’t like him. [...]

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Postmodernist Identity, part 1: IPCRESS, Bond, Austin Powers, and G.I. Joe

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Austin Powers, Casino Royale, Cobra Commander, Crimson Guard, Fred Broca, G.I. Joe, Harry Palmer, Harry Saltzman, James Bond, Larry Hama, Len Deighton, Luis Buñuel, Marvel Comics, Michael Caine, Patrick Armstrong, pulp, Springfield, Spy Story, That Obscure Object of Desire, The IPCRESS File on January 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »

OK, time to get really geeky. Paul’s recent post mentioning Len Deighton’s The IPCRESS File (1962) jostled a few thoughts I’ve had about—well, about G.I. Joe. And pulp. Which I’ll get to. But first: The Unnamed Spy The IPCRESS File is a first-person Cold War spy novel. We never learn much about the novel’s narrator, [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘G.I. Joe’

An Interview with Me at Untoward

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work!!

Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

Postmodernist Identity, part 1: IPCRESS, Bond, Austin Powers, and G.I. Joe

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