Wait, What? Ep. 76: Dares, Wins

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on February 28, 2012

Categories: Podcasts

And Lo, There Shall Come…An Answering! For most of you, anyway.  I fully confess Graeme and I did punt on a few questions that were either complex enough to take up a full podcast at a later date, or so good that it would require better men than us to answer it.  (Ah, yes: the old “It’s not  you, Listener Question, it’s us” strategy–never leave home without it.) Anyway, as you might imagine with so many exceptional inquiries, it would take us a while to answer them–and of course us being us, we’re going to go egregiously off-topic, right?–so, yeah.  Two hours and forty minutes is what we’ve got for you. We talk so long Graeme turns into The Lord…  Read More…

STRANGEly fascinating

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 8, 2009

Categories: Reviews

Wow, I really loved Marvel’s STRANGE TALES #1. If this was an attempt to “counter-program” DC’s WEDNESDAY COMICS, it’s a pretty solid drubbing — there’s a tremendous amount of energy and passion on display on most of the strips here that I’m finding lacking from WC (which is beautiful, and all, but I found myself suddenly stopping reading WC at around week 3, saying I’ll read again when the whole thing is complete, which I guess will get me there around 9/23) Like with most anthologies, there’s not a lot here of real lasting and permanent value, but even the slightest pieces are inventive and fun — for example, Paul Pope’s “Inhumans” story is nearly an episode of Seinfeld on…  Read More…

Modern Art! Makes me! Want to! Rock out!: Graeme loves The Salon.

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on April 29, 2007

Categories: Reviews

It almost feels like an insult to say that THE SALON should be compulsory reading for any course teaching the history of 20th century art; it suggests that the book is some kind of dry, informative, educational text, which couldn’t be further from the truth; someone who has absolutely no knowledge or interest in art could read this book and come away as in love with it as I did, without feeling as if they were being lectured or preached to. But nonetheless, one of the wonderful – and wonderfully sly – things about this book is the way that, almost without you noticing, it tries to explain the thinking behind the cubist movement and introduce you to Gertrude Stein…  Read More…