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	Film/Lit Articles Avatars Anyone? Upgrading Movies to ‘Near Reality’ published on Web del Sol (2008). Do we Really Need More Moore? Another movie, another spin cycle. Posted on Web del Sol (July 2007). Go Make a Movie: My take on doing the 48 Hour Film Project posted on Misstropolis (May 2007). Oscar Goes Old School Is Oscar going limp? Posted on Web del Sol (March 2007). Before there was Darfur a profile of John Bul Dau, the Sudanese Lost Boy who’s featured in the haunting documentary God Grew Tired of Us, in The Boston Phoenix (January 2007). An Interview with Sylvester Stallone about aging and Rocky Balboa (aka Rocky VI) in The Boston Phoenix (December 2006). Is it too soon for movies like United 93, World Trade Center and The Queen? Read my blip Seeking the Truth in Dramatized Reality on Web del Sol (November 2006). New church sex abuse film rings familiar in The Boston Phoenix (October 2006). Copy Cat: a fellow critic cops a plea in The Boston Phoenix (June 2006). Moore Controversy: one rambling critic takes on another, posted on Web del Sol (June 2004). Post pub note (2006), this Rant on Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 will be published in the Web del Sol anthology, Your Life is a Movie. See the cover mockups. A Case of Written Conflict: Author vs Author, Rant 12: October 2005 gets published on Web del Sol (2005). The Politics of Writing: Beware the Pithy Pams, Rant 6: September 2005 gets published on Web del Sol (2005). SolPix @ Web del Sol run through the archives and poke around, there’s plenty there. The Ban in Iran an interview: the politics of Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi published in The Boston Phoenix (2000). An Interview with Laura Linney after getting an academy award nomination for You Can Count On Me (2000). Books My essay Moore Controversy: one rambling critic takes on another (June 2004) on Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 is now available in the Web del Sol anthology Your Life is a Movie (2006) available at Amazon. My short Scrambling is available in Thieves Jargon’s first anthology, Year of the Thief (2006), which will soon also be available at Amazon too. Read the review in the Boston Phoenix (2006). My nonfiction short The Season That Almost Wasn't, which won first place in the Ghost Road Press’s Open Windows contest, is out in GRP’s 2006 Open Windows Anthology (2006). All Stories Scrambling: a high school jock tries to work out complications in his life. Thieves Jargon (2005). The Season That Almost Wasn't how I almost missed the greatest comeback in all of sports (See the seats). Slow Trains (2005). Antenuptial: a woman’s second thoughts about marriage (adult material), was a finalist in the 2005 Bukowski Pint and the Pen competition. You can also get it on Double Dare Press (2006) and more recently the Hot Sex Issue at Web del Sol (2007) Hub: prose about a Boston landmark. Learning to Read Bukowski: complicated young love, this year’s Bukowski Pint and Pen entry that never made it in time. The Green Muse (2007). Date: short, short, published in Tuesday Shorts (2008). Film and Video For the Boston 2007 48 Hour Film Project I was the writer on Quin Quimby and the Itchy Scourge. Rants Rant 23: December 2006 Michael Richards, Talk to Me. Rant 22: November 2006 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Same Sex Marriage. Rant 21: September 2006 Nixon and Peace, the Pope and the Pedophile, Schindler’s Folly and even Hugo Chavez. Rant 20: August 2006 The End of Violence, or premature victory? Rant 19: August 2006 The Shamless Sham of M. Night Shyamalan. Rant 18: June 2006 Two for the Road: DVD Picks of the Week & Lost and Found, the Story of a Boy and his Bike. Rant 17: March 2006 Proulx BS, or How the Little Bald Guy Became a Political Lightening Rod. Rant 16: February 2006 Fascism Lives! The inane case of David Irving. Rant 15: February 2006 Oscar on the Cheap. Rant 14: January 2006 Direct to Video Too: Bursting the Bubble on Film Distribution. Rant 13: January 2006 How “Brokeback Mountain” Appeals to Us All. Rant 12: October 2005 A Case of Written Conflict: When authors review authors. Rant 11: September 2005 The Hunt for a Red October: It’s down to the wire for the Red Sox. Rant 10: September 2005 Cinematic Current Issues: Roll Bounce and Flightplan open with touches of Katrina and the war on terror. Rant 9: September 2005 Java Gouging: Why does it cost more for a venti iced coffee than a hot one at Starbucks? Rant 8: September 2005 March on What? Bush and the Stop the War protesters have the same agenda. Rant 7: September 2005 Venomous Thinking: Katrina hits and Dimension Films release a thrill kill flick set in Louisiana? Rant 6: September 2005 Into the Belly of the Beast: Fear and Loathing in a Writers’ Group Rant 5: September 2005 Is the Boston Film Festival on life support? Rant 4: August 2005 Is Lance a Dope? Is Lance Armstrong a target or is he a cheat? Rant 3: August 2005 Does Celibacy Sell? The 40 Year Old Virgin is cleaning up and the real sex in 9 Songs has no takers. Rant 2: August 2005 No Paradise: how hack Michael Bay made a decent film and no one cared. Rant 1: August 2005 Falling on Scissors, or a memoir gone bad? Will author Augusten Burroughs pay the piper in court? Book Reviews Lay of the Land by Richard Ford (October 2007). The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (July 2007). Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver (June 2007). Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (May 2007). Twilight for the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg (May 2007). The Road by Cormac McCarthy (February 2007). On Beauty by Zadie Smith (February 2007). Kafka on the Shore by Hauruki Murakami (December 2006). Oblivion by David Foster Wallace (April 2006). Envy by Kathryn Harrison (December 2005). Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (November 2005). Tooth and Claw by TC Boyle (October 2005). Jesus’s Son by Denis Johnson (September 2005). All Souls by Michael Patrick Macdonald (September 2005). 1776 by David McCullough (August 2005). No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (August 2005).
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