Thought for the day: Just sold my first short story since…well, longer than I’d like to admit. Other writers have commented on the comparative ease of getting non-fiction published compared to fiction. I agree. And it is much worse now than it was ten or twenty years ago. And yet, I’ve also noticed that the… Continue reading
Martin Peretz’s excellent piece in this week’s New Republic deserves more notice. Peretz has always been a big supporter of Al Gore, and he came under some fire over the past couple of years for using his magazine to boost Gore during the presidential campaign. Indeed, to the point of firing at least one editor… Continue reading
Are DVDs the wave of the future for independent filmmakers? Chris Gore at Filmthreat thinks so. And his piece in the newsletter this week is worth quoting in depth: Independent film is currently at a crossroads. The former titans of the indie film world, the Miramaxes and the Artisans, have all but stopped taking risks.… Continue reading
John Ellis has a great piece touting netflix.com, one of the true success stories of the over-hyped dot.com era. Meanwhile at The New Republic, John Judis explains why Major League baseball won’t be much better off, even if the Players and Owners avoid a strike this Friday….
University of Rochester biologist H. Allen Orr does a good job exposing the nonsense in the latest publication from the never-never land of those humorless conservatives who believe in “Intelligent Design.” (presumably there being such a thing as stupid design?) Question:Do reasonable liberals get annoyed by the fringe types on their end of the spectrum… Continue reading