Dave Cullen: Best PostsDave's Favoritesmy brother owes me . . . a dollar- October 17, 2005 i had given up on this a long time ago. but it feels good, finally. really good. i just watched the white sox win their first pennant in my lifetime. had just missed the last one: came in 59, two years before my birth. i used to listen to the games every night in in the bottom bunk with my tiny transistor radio. with the volume turned all the way down to the edge of the off click, with it laid right up against my ear on the pillow, so i could just make out Harry Carrey calling the balls and...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/10/16.html#a1741 Charactericide- October 4, 2005 after 24 hours' reflection on the last post on Lars von Trier and Dancer in the Dark, i have decided that his crimes are far worse than i imagined. and yet, curiously, i am all the more eager to forgive him. (yeah, i still understand he surely doesn't give a shit. not the point.) it's one thing to blind your protagonist, and betray her, and rob her at the most horribly inopportune moment, under the most incredibly tragic circumstances, and slip that gun into her hand at still worse moment, and.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/10/03.html#a1700 Forgiving Lars- October 3, 2005 I have decided to forgive Lars von Trier. I'm sure he will be relieved. Hahaha. Apparently it's been nine years now that I've been furious with him, and like most lovers' spats that angry and that distant, I can't be sure what exactly it was about. Dogma 95 The way he employed it in Breaking The Waves Or was I deeply offended by the way that story played out All of them, I think, but couldn't swear to any of them, except the first. God. Shaky cameras bug the shit out of me. They have...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/10/02.html#a1699 good news, bad news, confusing news on my broken back- October 3, 2005 no, that title is not just a play on my latest obsession, Brokeback Mountain. i really did break my back 21 years ago. first the background, then the latest development: it was kind of a freak accident, while i was in the army, and it was pretty bad, so they sent me to the top army hospital. it was a burst fracture of my first lumbar vertebrae, L1. it was crushed to half its original height, and the bone fragments lodged in my spinal canal there, blocking (or occluding) 50% of the canal....http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/bestPosts/2005/10/02.html#a1698 |