Sarasota :: FL :: USA
| 5 months ago
Media Glutton: Reviewing Obedience, Firefly Rain, and others
Double dipping of Media Glutton this week - part of the fallout of my massive dose of free bookage this past weekend. Plus I just saw Kung Fu Panda and wanted to get in a good word about that...
Tags: Rick Dakan, Kung Fu Panda, Obedience, Firefly Rain, Media Glutton
Sarasota :: FL :: USA
| 6 months ago
Media Glutton May 22nd, 2008
So I decided to wait until today to write up this week's gluttony because I wanted to write about the new Indiana Jones movie. I can say with some assurance that it was not, in any sense, worth the wait. The movie is aggressively...
Tags: Rick Dakan, Indiana Jones, Media Glutton
Sarasota :: FL :: USA
| 7 months ago
Media Glutton April 22nd 2008
by Rick Dakan
I really do like PBS. It makes up a surprising amount of my TV watching each week, pretty much entirely for their non-fiction and commentary shows like Charlie Rose, Nova, Bill Moyers, and Frontline. Those...
Tags: Rick Dakan, Sick Around the World, I want someone to eat cheese with, Neal Stephenson
Sarasota :: FL :: USA
| 7 months ago
So this has been an unusual media week for me, a time to try out new things and experience stuff I don't do nearly as often as I should (besides eating enough vegetables). In reverse order then, we'll start with last night, when I went with friends up...
Tags: Rick Dakan, Klezmer, Golem, The Last Word, McKinley, Battlestar Galactica, Rock Band
Sarasota :: FL :: USA
| 7 months ago
So I've been reading a lot this past week, mostly for my MFA program and thus nothing you would call new or even terribly recent stuff. Great stuff, but nothing you haven't heard about a bunch of other places before. I'm more interested here in highlighting...
Tags: Rick Dakan, Penn Jillette, The Mist, Splendid China, Brave New World, X-box
San Francisco :: CA :: USA
| 8 months ago
Media Glutton, March 26, 2008
by Rick Dakan
So I had a rather unusual but quite exciting media overload experience this past weekend - spoke and worked my publisher's table at the San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. It was, in fact, a lot of...
Tags: anarchist, books, dispossessed, china mieville, thomas pynchon, rick dakan