I was at the Kennedy Center last night to see the Alvin Ailey dance company in celebration of Will Wilkinson‘s 63rd birthday. (Ok, not quite. But he’s old.) It was an excellent program well executed (hell, go see it), but as the performance came to a close and the audience got up for a standing […]

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The comics you liked as a kid typically seem preposterous a few years later—unless, of course, you liked Alan Moore comics. Jim Henley looks at what emerges on rereading Moore’s justly venerated Watchmen in a fine short essay. Jim also links to a short meditation on the impending wrap-up of the long-running Cerebus series. I […]

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…a mini-deconstruction of the SotU and Dem responses. Fellow debate geeks, take note.

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So, Tyler Cowen’s passing on email from a woman who thinks conservative guys pose as libertarian to pick up women, while Matt Yglesias posts on “conservacool,” and it some of the folks at the Lew Rockwell blog seem sure that anyone who hasn’t drunk their particular flavor of libertarian Kool-Aid must just be milking the […]

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For those of you not regularly reading Hit and Run (and why not?), Jacob Sullum links what is probably the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks: A fantastically obtuse, overblown column on the devil weed by A.M. Rosenthal. A few friends and I took turns reading it aloud; you might try it. My lungs hurt […]

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Sure you do. Back in high school, I was addicted to this brilliantly scripted cyberpunk show when it ran in syndication on the Bravo network. Over at Amazon, you can get the original pilot on VHS, but the rest of the series seems to be unavailable, and none of it is on DVD. A number […]

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I guess demographic targeting works; this ad almost makes me want to vote for Wes Clark. Almost.

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One of the things that makes Errol Morris’s fantastic documentary The Fog of War work is a haunting soundtrack by Philip Glass. Amazon is offering one of the tracks as a free download.

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Lane reveals in comments below that the brilliant-but-neurotic Spalding Gray has gone missing. I hope he’s OK. I remember the first time I encountered Gray: It was late at night when I was in high school and, channel surfing, I chanced across Monster in a Box on Bravo. Like most of his pieces, it was […]

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From my Crescat 20 Questions just before the new year: 14: What publication do you most wish would start a blog? My first instinct is to say the Economist, but I don’t know whether their comparative advantage is something that would translate well to the blog form. Maybe The Atlantic Monthly? Actually, what I’d really […]

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