The Brutal Grace of Flannery O’Connor
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of Southern writer, Flannery O’Connor. Below is a recording of her reading her short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find. “I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man Is Hard to Find brutal and sarcastic,” Miss O’Connor wrote before her death. “Grace changes us and change More...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – 1968
Ever wonder why Jimi Hendrix is still considered the greatest rock guitarist ever? Newly unearthed footage of The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing “Foxey Lady” at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival should More...
Mad Men: Truth in Advertising
Watching the first season of Mad Men was like flipping through a dozen John Cheever short stories: three martini lunches, chasing the secretary around the desk and then home to the wife and kids in the suburbs. More...
Groupies: A Love Story
“Do you have the clap?” This charming pickup line is slurred by English musician, Luther Grovesnor, to an overeager groupie named Lixie in the notorious 1970 documentary, Groupies. “Yes,” she admits over More...
John Wayne Refutes Keynesiansm
Here is an excerpt from an insightful interview that John Wayne gave in 1975. In it, he discusses his aversion to liberals, socialism and John Maynard Keynes. His main criticism of liberals is that they don’t More...
Don’t Believe the Hollywood Spin, Han Shot First.
The latest liberal – conservative controversy revolves around Han Solo’s shooting bounty hunter Greedo at the Mos Eisley Cantina in the movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In the original movie, More...
Christopher Hitchens: Courage to be Contrarian
The passing of Christopher Hitchens this week leaves a deep intellectual hole in the English speaking world. A contrarian by nature, he first made his mark as an anti-imperialist Trotskyite of the 1968 stripe before breaking More...
Almost Free at Last. Runaway Slaves Leaving the Dem’s Liberal Plantation
Herman Cain may or may not be qualified to be President of the United States, but if experience is the criteria, surely he has more than the current occupant did when he ran in 2008. What is clear, however, is More...
Pin the Tail on the Nazi
Susan Sarandon is an attractive and intelligent actress whose work I much admire, but when she pipes in on politics, as she did recently by calling the current pope a Nazi, I think to myself; “Oh boy, is she a More...
Why You Should Watch Californication:
A writer tries to juggle his career, his relationship with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend, as well as his appetite for beautiful women. That is the simple tag line from the IMDB website describing Californication. More...
