Archive for June, 2007
Cheap Thrill: Joan Crawford on The Sixth Sense
June 4th, 2007Here at Chez Scrubbles we’ve been getting a few jollies from a new channel that popped up on our DirecTV lineup earlier this year — Chiller. Chiller broadcasts lots of heavily edited ’80s vintage fright flicks, but constant repeats of Friday the 13th: The Series, Tales from the Crypt and shows of that ilk form […]
I’m Wishing
June 4th, 2007Reading through Eugene Robinson’s Washington Post editorial An Egghead for the Oval Office, I just kept nodding my head and saying “yes, yes” to myself. Is having a reasonably intelligent president too much to ask for? Unfortunately I’m not feeling Robinson’s optimism. Looking over our recent commanders-in-chief — Reagan, Clinton, even Bushes I and II […]
Just Deserts
June 3rd, 2007Rudy Adler sent along an email about the Border Film Project (which he helped orchestrate). From the website:
Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, […]
Book Review: Charley Harper
June 1st, 2007About five or six years ago, me and my partner stumbled across some excellent framed prints of stylized birds in a dusty antique store. They looked to be from the ’50s, but the prints’ appealing freshness and simplicity had a timeless quality. The birds literally appeared to fly off the paper they were printed on. […]
