Sweeeet.  The first in-costume stills from the upcoming Watchmen movie have been released.  Though as New York magazine notes vis a vis that Ozymandias outfit, the fake-muscles-with-nipples look has a bad track record. And yes, I realize Watchmen is probably completely unfilmable, and that trying to translate a classic work that makes such brilliant use […]

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Tonight: Graphic novelist Adrian Tomine at Politics & Prose, 7pm. Tomorrow: Brilliant Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who is sick enough to flow over bizarro electroclash beats and make it sound perfectly natural, at DC9.

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As I mentioned a little while back, the latest Mike Doughty album, Golden Delicious, is damn good—and especially gratifying if you’re an old Soul Coughing fan who’ll appreciate a few tracks that skirt the borders of that late-lamented band’s aural territory.  Now, being a longstanding Doughty fan, I actually pre-ordered the album as soon as […]

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Ingenious.

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Mike Doughty‘s new album? Solid, of course. Samples here.

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Slate‘s Jeffrey Goldberg sums up my reaction to some of the current season’s storylines on The Wire. This weird fabricated serial-killer plot has taken a show hailed for its gritty realism straight into it-was-my-evil-twin soap opera territory. (Maybe the old Jimmy McNulty has been replaced by Detective Popil from Hannibal Rising? But then where’s Dominic […]

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My first thought upon being sent this Ashlee Simpson video was: “How bizarre! This is basically just a string of visual and aural quotes from 1980s pop culture, but it’s pitched at a demographic that—unlike, say, many viewers of Family Guy or fans of New Wave revival bands—can’t possibly be nostalgic for the 80s. Hell, […]

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So sez Bob Dylan, and MP3s and cheap headphones are to blame.

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Awwww yeah.

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Therefore, a politician must be able to strike fear into their hearts. I shall become… Ron Paul! Well, that’s how it could have happened, anyway. Ron Paul tells ComixMix that his favorite superhero is the “Berlin Batman,” aka “Baruch Wayne,” from an Elseworlds story by the awesome Paul Pope. In a tale now notorious among […]

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