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Tune in today to Chicago's WLUW at 10:30AM C.S.T and hear me guest it up with Kevin Fullam on "Under Surveillance", his excellent show about politics and culture. Those of you in the Big ( Read more... )

Today's Ludic Log: corrections and retractions.

Also, those of you who subscribe to Blueprints, the trade journal of the produce industry, can today enjoy a gigantic article by me on the Chicago International Produce Market. The article almost kilt me, but I survived, and am looking forward to spending the giant check I received on Blow Pops and ( Read more... )

Today's Ludic Log:

The 2007 Crappys.

It's ON, baby.

Today's Ludic Log: South By Southwest Bingo!

Shout-outs for this entry: the center square joke is cribbed from solipsiae, and the B-6 joke is c-in-a-circle Whitney Pastorek. Also, if I were calamityjon -- which is to say, if I (a) was funny and (b) could draw something that didn't look like the product of a stroke-victim octopus with hooks at the ends of its ( Read more... )

As you probably know from my relentless whoring of the fact, I am one of the staff bloggers at Nerve.com's indie film site, the Screengrab. Which, it was announced today, is a finalist for a National Magazine Award!

Even though I have only been writing for them for three weeks, I would like to officially take credit for this.

There is a new Ludic Log entry up today, but it's so bad I dast not link to it. I honestly don't even know why I bother anymore, except perhaps to preserve the illusion that I have some ability to write things other than the content provision work people pay me for. (As an unrelated but equally whiny aside, I have officially hit the point with my ( Read more... )

Sometimes people pay me to write things, which is where I disappear to sometimes. Today, I thought I'd tell you about a bunch of people who paid me money, and then not link to it, just to get on your nerves ( Read more... )

If you're absolutely dying for new Ludic Log content, there is some, as I try to play catch-up: there is, for example, a brand-new music blog entry (with the inexplicably unlinked file located here); an expanded version of the "real men" post of a few days back located here; some new and used lists and sausages; and a brand-new little short story ( Read more... )

One of the things I'll be doing over at the Screengrab is something called "Take Five", a weekly Friday Five-style list tying in to a film opening wide the upcoming weekend. For my first go, I've selected five astrologically-themed movies, from the brilliant to the bizarre, in honor of David Fincher's Zodiac (which I hope to see this weekend, as ( Read more... )

Today marks my debut as a paid blogger for Nerve.com's indie film blog, The Screengrab. It's quite a fine little site, chock full of movie news, quotes, upcoming film production reports, links to other good film blogs, choice YouTube finds, interviews, humor, and, for those so inclined, lots of Maggie Gyllenhaal love. I would highly recommend it ( Read more... )