February 2010
18 posts
The last days of Moscow’s angriest alternative newspaper, The Exile Vanity Fair has a good article of the final days of Matt Taibi and Mark Ames’ Exile newspaper in Moscow.
In its time The Exile was arguably the most abusive, defamatory, un-evenhanded, and crassest publication in Russia, and Ames and his staff had paid for that fact, or at least for the fact that they were arrogant...
A picture of every page of the fourth edition of the London Weekly I never did find a copy of the third edition. If you did, would you please contact me here. Also, Shouldn’t you be following me on Twitter? Week One | Week Two
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How to start a container garden I’m posting this to remind myself. We have a tiny and dangerous balcony off the bedroom that would be perfect for falling to one’s death and growing tomatoes. This year will be the year that something actually grows. #
Ted Rall looking to his readers to fund his return to Afghanistan We ran Ted Rall periodically in Terminal City, often his pieces on Afghanistan. The actual trips were paid for by major media outlets – we just paid his bargain-by-comparison column fee. Now he wants go back back and he has set up a fund for readers to pay for it. #
Why are coups always led by colonels? The short version: They have a taste of power but not enough fiscal incentives not to rock the boat. This short article in Foreign Policy lays it all out. #
No sign of London Weekly #3 yet Although the website of the London Weekly says the third edition has been released, we have been unable to find it at our usual locations. All staff of RevMoonbeam remain on high alert. Hit Twitter #revmoonbeam or contact above if you have any leads. #
Or is it Phantom of the Paradise? Doesn’t this description of the sequel to Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, sound a lot like the plot to Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park? #
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man This is a first rate profile with the last of the great reviewers. #
A picture of every page of the second edition of the London Weekly It seems that finding actual copies of the London Weekly is still a problem, so I’m posting the photos of the second issue. I picked mine up at Holborn Station at 7:30 am (after checking Oxford Circus at 7:20). The vendor was friendly but wasn’t forthcoming on anything. When I asked how I could get a job as a London Weekly vendor,...
Conan’s contract details The Hollywood Reporter, Esq. has seen Conan O’Brien’s contract with NBC – and it did include a statement that the Tonight Show begins at 11:35pm. #
New Yorker’s 85th Anniversary covers There is a secret image hidden in the four New Yorker covers commissioned to Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine, and Ivan Brunetti. PLUS: A bonus story by Chris Ware on Rea Irvin, the New Yorker’s first art director. #
The Return of the Baffler Thomas Frank’s excellent quarterly magazine returns with its 18th issue in 22 years. #
Return of the Jedi, Polish Movie Poster Designer Witold Dybowski nails it. #
A short interview with Bill Watterson Why now? And why with the Cleveland Plain Dealer? I don’t know – but this is the first interview with the Calvin & Hobbes creator that I have seen since the definitive Honk piece in 1987. #
Print your own first edition of the London Weekly
Everyone has been talking about the new London Weekly - but noone can find it. Yet, I did - in a binman’s cart. Click here for the pix of every page.
I mean not tolerated Popery
The US Supreme Court last week recognised that corporations have ‘free speech’ like natural persons and thus could not be barred from influencing elections through advertising. The argument, of course, is that corporations may have access to much more capital to use in advertising than the average, old-style, human-type person.
However, Douglas Rushkoff...