Name: Jesse Miksic
Dateline: New York, New York
Weblog: benefitofthedoubt.miksimum.com
Articles: 13
First Published: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Last Published: Thursday, November 29, 2007

Designer | writer | critic | dedicated cultural participant

Loud voices fade. Well-chosen words linger.

Currently listing articles 13-1:

13. Movie Review: Beowulf

    — Beowulf finds a nice place between realistic, cartoonish, thoughtful, and jocular.

    REVIEW in Video on November 29, 2007

12. Body and Object: A Philadelphia Judge Forgets the Difference

    — A judge eases her conscience by dehumanizing a victim.

    OPINION in Politics on October 16, 2007

11. The Invisible Hipster

    — My unsuccessful search for a cultural scapegoat.

    OPINION in Culture on August 20, 2007

10. Nature Favors the Strong: A Celebration of the Artificial

    — Nature's nice and all, but I think it's time I called it to task for all its issues.

    OPINION in Culture on August 09, 2007

9. Movie Review: The Simpsons Movie Is History

   — The Simpsons movie was a long episode and a short recap; I don't know if that's good or bad.

   REVIEW in Video on August 06, 2007

8. Movie Review: Sublime and Unstable - Danny Boyle's Sunshine

   — Whether the split in the middle makes it better or worse, Danny Boyle's Sunshine is worth the journey.

   REVIEW in Video on July 24, 2007

7. Transgressions and Feedback Loops: A Partisan Rant

   — Why is the American left so desperate to maintain its taboos? I wish I had an answer.

   OPINION in Politics on July 10, 2007

6. Jesse's Sensible Political Program

   — A way of finding yourself in this schizophrenic political space.

   OPINION in Politics on June 25, 2007

5. Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End - Gore Goes Lynch

   — Pirates of the Carribean III may have confused your local reviewer — but I think I get it: it's crazy. Incidentally, I think David Lynch

   OPINION in Video on June 02, 2007

4. Beyond the Bullet

   — On gun violence in a post-gun-violence society.

   OPINION in Politics on April 25, 2007

3. Satire: Lessons in Ugly Politics: Breaking Obama

   — Barack Obama for the aspiring student of spin and misdirection: Why worry about the real issues?

   SATIRE in Politics on February 02, 2007

2. Movie Review: Children of Men - Fiction Dipping a Finger Into Reality

   — Reviewers with caveats may be missing the point of Cuaron's Children of Men, a modern triumph of action and atmosphere.

   REVIEW in Video on January 23, 2007

1. Robert Anton Wilson: Goodbye, Mad Prophet

   — Robert Anton Wilson left us a lot to think about when he departed from his vessel on January 11.

   NEWS in Books on January 17, 2007