document.write("Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace. Finite jests. DFW noodles in various genres -- political history, tall tale -- but most of these miss the mark. 'My Appearance,' though, is superlative, as is the first story.
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document.write("Cléo de 5 à 7. Maybe we shouldn't have watched this over several days, when it's supposed to take place in 'real time.' Not too gimmicky, but perhaps too -- French?
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document.write("D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat, Junior Senior. The Deee-Lite of the 00's. I dare you not to dance.
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document.write("The Fabulous Pontani Sisters. Debbie's choice of celebratory entertainment after her dissertation defense. Retro-a-go-go at Marion's Continental on Monday nights.
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document.write("The Hanged Man -- read my review.
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document.write("They Might Be Giants concert. TMBG has always appealed to the inner child of the alternafan -- and now they're doing children's albums and concerts! We took Ben for his first ever mosh pit. All three of us had a great time. Ben especially liked the confetti.
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document.write("Ringu. Our Halloween Party film this year -- I'd heard that the Japanese original was scarier than the American remake which scared the bejeebus out of me. But while it was more understated, Ringu didn't raise the hairs on my neck the way the Ring did. Maybe it was because it was on the small screen -- or maybe because the remake was faithful enough to the original that there were few surprises.
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document.write("Steamboat Bill, Jr.. Great schtick (and special effects!) Somehow I've missed seeing any of Buster Keaton's silents before, an error I am now correcting.
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document.write("Lost in Translation -- see my cynical review.
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document.write("League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2.6. The last of the League. Mr. Hyde turns out to be the most interesting character of this series. It's sort of a shame that Moore's ended the series, which was vastly fun. Maybe he'll write about the earlier incarnation of the League, with Lemuel Gulliver, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Doctor Syn, Fanny Hill, and Natty Bumppo?
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document.write("The New Yorkers. Mixed media is often, well, a mixed bag, and this very-loosely-hung-together show was no exception. Stuff we liked: Ben Katchor's comics, narrated by Bill Irwin; a video by Douglas Aitken set to a languid cello-and-voice rendition of the VU's ''Heroin''; and two films (with music by Michael Gordon) by Bill Morrison -- one (City Walk) a trip through Brooklyn and into Manhattan (yes, Debbie, that was the Manhattan Bridge) as seen through a xerox machine, the other (Light is Calling) a gorgeous and haunting screening of a silent movie on decaying nitrate film (see pic below).
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document.write("1602 (nos. 1-3). What if the Marvelverse had happened in Europe in 1602? Gaiman is clearly having fun with this, although I really did need the annotations to understand who some of the (for me) more obscure Marvel characters' analogues were.
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