Tag Archives: satire

Tom Lehrer’s The Remains of Tom Lehrer

Posted on 20th March 2024 by Lars Nilsson

I have been waiting for this CD box for many years, in fact ever since I bought a CD player in 1987. It took 13 years but it was worth the wait. For those of you who are not aquainted … Continue reading →

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Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone

Posted on 24th February 2017 by Robert

Flesh and Bone is a prequel to The Surrogates, taking the story back fifteen years to the anti-surrogate riots of 2039. The incident that sparks the crisis is the beating death of a derelict by three teenagers who are using … Continue reading →

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Thomas M. Disch’s The Word of God, or, Holy Writ Rewritten

Posted on 19th February 2017 by Robert

Thomas M. Disch was best known in some circles as one of the New Wave generation of science fiction writers. In others, he was known as an accomplished poet, while in still others as an incisive and iconoclastic critic. “Iconoclast” … Continue reading →

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Antonio Prohias’ Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook

Posted on 4th February 2017 by Robert

Those of us who remember Mad magazine in the 1960s and ’70s also remember “Spy vs. Spy,” Antonio Prohias’ ongoing series about the Black Spy and the White Spy (and sometimes the Gray Spy, a female counterpart, as well) who … Continue reading →

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John Cameron Mitchell: Shortbus

Posted on 23rd May 2016 by Robert

Shortbus is one of those films that comes apart if you try to look at it element by element. There’s not much of a plot, which we should all be used to by now. The characterizations are not startling for … Continue reading →

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