Mal. Zoe. Jayne. Wash. Inara. Simon. River. Kaylee. Shepherd Book. Serenity. If those 10 names don’t leave you shaking your head at the stupidity of FOX Network executives, Finding Serenity isn’t the book for you. Finding Serenity is a collection of essays exploring the short lived FOX Television series Firefly. …
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Book Review: Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror
There probably isn’t a middle ground on Terry Jones’s views of the “war on terror.” You either agree with him or you don’t. Yet even if you do, Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror comes off more as toss-off than lasting political commentary. Jones, whose biggest but not …
Read More »Michael Jackson Trial: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Publicist Scorned
Originally, Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask, An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop, by 30-year Jackson PR man Bob Jones (who was fired unceremoniously last year by Michael’s brother Rand) and journalist Stacy Brown, was scheduled to be published in April. It now appears that the King …
Read More »Book Review: Marketing Playbook: The Manual for Growing Organizations
Marketing Playbook: The Manual for Growing Organizations The world of business is a strange one. Artsy people often think of corporations as drab, soulless places, but nothing could be further from the truth. Companies are home to many wonders and mysteries, as most anyone who’s worked in one will tell …
Read More »Book Review: Hello To All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace
Hello To All That: A Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace recounts in time-shifting chapters the author’s depression, pharmaceutical cure, and subsequent formative experience as a freelance war correspondent reporting from the siege of Sarajevo in 1993-4. The parallel stories are interesting and vividly told. But readers expecting something heavy, …
Read More »Book Review: Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
Eternal life may be changing from a death-defying fantasy to something more mundane, as this new book reveals...
Read More »Book Review: Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
In the age of George W. Bush and Al Qaeda, it’s easy to lose sight of what is ultimately the most important conflict of all: the battle to save the environment.
Read More »Review: The Best of Bollywood
I have been at war with myself: on one side of the DMZ are the anal forces of completism that drive me to carry every project out to its fullest extension. Since I don’t write very quickly, this tendency makes most any review I write take agonized hours. As a …
Read More »‘I Am Not A Junkie’
Last night Dawn and I went to a Halloween party – she was Courtney Love and I was Kurt Cobain. No one recognized us – they just thought she was a whore and I was Jeff Spicoli. How soon they forget. We are once again in tune with the zeitgeist: …
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