
Spring 2006
Letter
from the Editor

Hello! I'm Leonard Pierce.
BY LEONARD PIERCE


Abner Dean Made This
An Appreciation
BY CHRIS LANIER

DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths
Like Shiva, only with more Supermen
BY MATT ROSSI

The Very Definition of Lame
Punk Rock Nostalgia
BY GARY MAIRS

Are You Trying To Be Funny?
Literature is Easy; Comedy is Hard
BY LEONARD PIERCE

Delicate Balance
The Rolling Stone Record Guide (First Edition)
BY HAYDEN CHILDS

Hell Is Not Socially Constructed
Postmodernism and horror meet in the stories of James Hynes
BY JOHN JAMES

Little Deviant Kid Stuff
An Interview with Keith Knight
BY CHRIS LANIER

A Line in the Sand
Supreme Power's Superhuman Reality
BY KEVIN FULLAM

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
The manga of Yuichi Yokoyama
BY CHRIS LANIER

Addio Milosevic
A Serbian cartoonist responds to the death of a despot
BY ALEKSANDAR ZOGRAF



Career Opportunities
The Future of the Bush Administration
BY PHIL NUGENT

Intelligent Design?
Threatened by Darwinism in the World of Computer Games
BY KEVIN FULLAM

The Abomination of the Pink Baseball Cap
Modern Culture Through A Major League Lens
BY VEEJANE ACHESON




The Life Fascistic
Fascist Aesthetics in the Films of Wes Anderson
BY DAVID NORDSTROM




Out of Time
Olivier Messiaen’s Quatour pour la fin du temps
BY STEVE HICKEN

Lessons on the Ecstasy of the Moment
Notes, Thoughts, and Observations on Morton Feldman and His Rothko Chapel
BY JEFFREY LETTERLY

Sing Me a Song to Set Me Free
Belle & Sebastian’s Rock Problem
BY LEONARD PIERCE

We Have the Technology
Thoughts on Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman”
BY MICHAEL TOMCZYSZYN




The Yelling Will Cease and the Killing Will Commence
The Case for 3rd Rock from the Sun
BY LEONARD PIERCE
Inside Hollywood
Entertainment’s Love Affair with Itself
BY PHIL NUGENT
Paint-By-Numbers Cult Television
I Come Not To Praise Carnivàle, But To Bury It
BY ERIC M. O’BRIEN




Pure Profit
The Baddest Man on Television
BY PHIL FREEMAN

Freddy Got a Bum Rap
Tom Green’s Film Triumph
BY ISAAC KELLEY

Welcome to Zitherland
In Search of Ruth Welcome
BY JEFFREY LETTERLY

Proud Desperation
The Stories of Guy Vanderhaeghe
BY GARY MAIRS

Templeton, Lay, and Tyler
BY PHIL NUGENT

He Who Laughs Last
The waking dreams and political nightmares of Killer7
BY NATE PATRIN

The Bottom Shelf
Academy of the Underrated Edition
BY SCOTT VON DOVIAK

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