By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Our birthright is a vibrant cityscape that we seem to be doing everything possible to decimate. More broadly and devastatingly, with Walmart (devastation to rural and semi-rural small retail businesses, gutting fragile...
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
Forever. Everything now seems to be changing something “forever.” Of course it has. It’s always been true. Needless, repetitive to create false drama and significance. And now a cliche as well.
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
These are some of my favorite movies. Comments? Blade Runner Alien Breaker Morant Lost In America Amelie The Big Lebowski Young Frankenstein A Man For All Seasons Z
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
Site-specific. When referring to dance, theater, etc. All the world is not a stage. Will was wrong on that one. Give me the proscenium arch every time. (Yes, a dullard, I know--unimaginative etc. But i embrace it.)
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
The Genius of Certain Geico Ads For example, "Antonio": The opening question: "Who's dog is this?" (For awhile I missed this because it happens at the beginning and so quickly. Don't make that mistake.) The spirit of Mad Magazine is still...
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
The Coming Recession: They say a bull market (also read "fairly healthy economy") does not die of old age. Perhaps true. But it can certainly die by suicide. And this is exactly what is happening. It's as if the financial...
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
Agent/Agency. It's everywhere now, suggesting some form of liberation. How did a word that means "acting for another" come to replace the word "empowerment"?
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Existential. Everyone's using it now along with the word "threat," i.e. Existential Threat, a threat to the existence of something or other. Let's make sure not to confuse it with Existentialism, which grapples with the issue of individual human responsibility,...
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
My candidate for the most overrated movie of all time: Vertigo. What is wrong with you people? More later.
Continue Reading →
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses