The Collected Neil the Horse revisits one of the craziest comics published during the eighties black-and-white boom
Making the world safe for musical comedy (and Canadian comic books)
Category: books
Back in the day – Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge
Jennifer Egan on shoplifting and music journalism
Never meet your heroes pt.1
Looking back at Judith Rossner’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Weird, wacky and often well-written, the 1973 bestseller-turned-into-a-Diane-Keaton-film was based on a true story.
“I never met anyone I didn’t like at a record company…”
Like myself, Bif Naked was raised in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in the early nineties. Unlike me, she’s been successful. Ba dum tsh! I like Bif. I think she’s a nice person (I’ve interviewed her – twice, I think;…
‘Ants cannot be wrangled,’ and other life lessons from Werner Herzog
Coming in at nearly 500 pages, A Guide for the Perplexed is enough Werner Herzog for even the most ardent fan of the German (he would say Bavarian) director. Throughout the book, which is a series of interviews with film…
10 Days of Leonard: Get Shorty
In honour of the passing of Elmore Leonard last week, I’ve embarked on a mission to watch 10 movies based on the writer’s books. In the first entry, I reviewed 52 Pick-Up, a 1986 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring…
10 Days of Leonard: Killshot and Jackie Brown
10 Days of Leonard: 52 Pick-Up
It was with great sadness I learned of Elmore Leonard‘s passing yesterday. In honour of my favourite crime writer (at least, among the ones I’ve read, including Hammett, Chandler and Highsmith), I watched the 1986 adaptation of his novel 52…