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...mainstream comic studios, the poaching of auteurs serves two purposes: a technique to lure readers with a more independent sensibility, such as cynical college students, to characters they “outgrew” and as a look at the creators’ reaction to access to classic characters. These creators are more willing to challenge the dominant clichés of knock-down drag-out fist-fights that characterize much of mainstream comics. As might be expected from a work featuring such a diverse array of creators, the strength and tone of the stories vary widely...
...possible I’m just being cynical but I have no other way to explain how little I care about the outcome of last week’s Grammy awards. Nonetheless, I shall bash. This year’s Grammys simply hardened my opinion that the mainstream critical and commercial machinations are perfectly content with a steady stream of tributes to elder generations and a short list of inoffensive “approved” artists that sound like they’re from an elder generation. Ray Charles! The Pepsi guy, before he died this past summer, dropped...
...camp” arguments; this isn’t exactly “so bad it’s good” though it’s something close. I’m suggesting that this song is the best example of how the mainstream music industry machinery no longer makes songs, or records, or even music, but rather commercial media entities. This kind of synergy may be bad or good depending on your take, but it’s undeniable. Bubble-gum pop has always been around to sell itself, but “Toxic” takes that...
...There is today almost no mainstream disagreement about the reality of global warming or the urgent need for the world to reduce emissions. And the ets is an important step in doing so - yet the high-minded principles behind the scheme have so far been bogged down by technical limitations and legal wrangling. The European Commission is involved in a legal battle with Germany, which wants the right to revise its national emissions allocation plan in the future, and with Britain, which wants to increase the allotted emissions in a plan approved last year. Green groups contend that European governments...
...find love, not to mention hot PG-13 sex scenes, you certainly can too! Now go buy the soundtrack!” How then does a singleton, attempting self-actualization and the attainment of some level of personal integrity, find peace amidst this endless parade of monotony in the mainstream cinema, that most domineering and permeable of cultural discourses? Pure, unadulterated cynicism and the snobby dissection of such barfy films as Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About You is the only path one can take. Behold—a sample reading to guide your viewing of whatever date...