Laura's Rose by William AndersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Thursday, December 31, 2020
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Review: Jaff Mad Invention
Jaff Mad Invention by Al JaffeeMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I recently started picking up these old Mad paperback books, which I loved in childhood. they make me snicker, at least, but these Jaffee ones are really genius. his mechanistic, engineering mind and cynically comedic mind make for clever visual jokes
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Monday, December 28, 2020
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Review: Jaff Mad Monstro
Jaff Mad Monstro by Al JaffeeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I've been collecting some MAD stuff here and there, but haven't really read anything since grade school. I thought I'd read this "Al Jaffee's MAD (Yecch!) Monstrosities", now. Still makes me chuckle. I like the absurdist jokes of Jaffee's written humor, but it is really the stylized drawings that I like.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
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Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Review: Them: Adventures with Extremists
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon RonsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ronson - a Jew - consorts with an Islamist agitator, two different KKK groups and apparent racists the Weavers... Covering several years, this is entertaining and enlightening on the psychology (abnormal) of the extremist mind, which is unshakeable, conspiratorial, and lacking in self-evaluation. What really sticks out is the final adventure. This is when on On July 15, 2000, in a shaky and unlikely collaboration with disinformation amplifier Alex Jones, he infiltrated the Bohemian Grove expecting to uncover the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones' documentary I saw Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in a way that could apply to all these zealots lost in an adolescent fever dream: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed trapped in their college years."
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Review: Them: Adventures with Extremists
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon RonsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ronson - a Jew - consorts with an Islamist agitator, two different KKK groups and apparent racists the Weavers... Covering several years, this is entertaining and enlightening on the psychology (abnormal) of the extremist mind, which is unshakeable, conspiratorial, and lacking in self-evaluation. What really sticks out is the final adventure. This is when on On July 15, 2000, in a shaky and unlikely collaboration with disinformation amplifier Alex Jones, he infiltrated the Bohemian Grove expecting to uncover the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones' documentary I saw Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Ronson documented his view of the ritual in a way that could apply to all these zealots lost in an adolescent fever dream: "My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed trapped in their college years."
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Monday, December 7, 2020
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