No surprise if you’ve forgotten that a movie called Birdman won the Best Picture Academy Award in 2014. The movie featured what the writers and the director obviously thought was a wonderful put-down speech by Emma Stone, berating her father,...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
Iconic. Similar to Curated. This has been giving us the dry heaves for years, but they keep sticking their fingers down our throats.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Curated. I knew this thing had escaped its cozy confines of museum administration when a few years ago I read an item in the LA Times describing a new strip retail center whose tenant mix had been “curated” by so-and-so. ...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
Game Changer. Not only has it quickly become a tired cliché, it occasionally becomes a downright atrocity such as this one I saw recently: "Gene therapy may be a game changer." Really. Yes, I guess the transformation of human life...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex
What happens to our urban built environment and the vitality of urban street life when all of us are huddling over our screens, ordering most of our goods and services on the internet in order to save a nickel? Call...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Flaneur
By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Bread & Circuses
A Note From Weimar: “’Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst,’ [Hannah Arendt wrote], ‘no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Priam's Daughter
"Dan Flanigan is a visionary poet. His series of poems, Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death, based on ancient services sometimes performed in the Roman Catholic Church, grapples with the death of his wife....I am filled with its humanity, its...
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Post No Bills
Sounds BOLD and BRAVE and FULL OF MEANING, but isn't. And the powerless deserve the truth too.
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By: Dan Flanigan
Categories: Gag Reflex