Category Archives: arts

Nero Wolfe and the Drones Club

Posted on Sunday, 2009 July 05 by Anton

P. G. Wodehouse and Rex Stout were contemporaries and friends, I recently learned. The opening pages of Stout’s Champagne For One read like a Bertie Wooster story: an acquaintance known as Dinky, feigning laryngitis, rings to beg that the narrator … Continue reading →

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I watch stuff

Posted on Sunday, 2009 July 05 by Anton

I’ve been relatively quiet here since I stopped listing my Netflix rentals. I could do that some more.

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an international art

Posted on Thursday, 2009 June 18 by Anton

In the opening scene of Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, a Hungarian Jew plays a Japanese impersonating a German, speaking English in Arabia.

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separated at germination?

Posted on Wednesday, 2009 June 03 by Anton

Okay, the mascot of OurWaterOurWorld isn’t quite as similar to Bob the Angry Flower as I thought, but still …

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what’s in a name?

Posted on Monday, 2009 June 01 by Anton

“You enjoyed Lost in Austen, didn’t you?” “Sure. I also enjoy Austen in Lost.”

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Incandescence

Posted on Tuesday, 2009 April 14 by Anton

Greg Egan complains about sloppy reviews of his latest novel: About half the reviews of Incandescence made at least one of the following false assertions: The Splinter orbits a neutron star. Rakesh visits the Splinter. The relationship between the novel’s … Continue reading →

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deathist movie

Posted on Thursday, 2009 April 09 by Anton

In Renaissance (2006) there’s a Big Sinister Corporation whose advertising tagline is “Health, Beauty, Longevity.” Oo, scary! I don’t think we’re ever told what Avalon sells (vitamins? cosmetics? medical treatment?) but it doesn’t matter. The noirish visual style suffices to … Continue reading →

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