Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Martin Landau, A Man of Many Lives
Longevity in Hollywood so rarely happens anymore. And usually when it does, one has to be a man in order to achieve it. Martin Landau [Read More…]
Madonna’s Letter About Sharon Stone/Whitney Houston Isn’t As Much About Them As A Contempt for Public Taste
Madonna herself has been called by the most damning of her critics such usual derisive adjectives as “derivative,” “hack” and, Morrissey’s favorite, “McDonna.” Yet what [Read More…]
Kesha’s Party Roots No Longer Dormant With “Woman”
After the seriousness and gravity of track like “Praying,” fans and casual listeners of Kesha (though there’s really no such thing) alike might have been [Read More…]
How Jake Ryan Ruined My (And Every Other Heteronormative White Woman’s) Life
What amount of ink hasn’t been spilled over the oeuvre of John Hughes and his many-splendored universe of characters? There has also been no shortage [Read More…]
Lovesickness Overcomes Muslim Mores in The Big Sick
It has been said that love conquers all. But this was a platitude created before “intermixing”–religiously or ethnically–was deemed an offense seemingly greater than murder [Read More…]
The Amy Winehouse Effect Befalls Nelsan Ellis
The news of actor Nelsan Ellis’–most famed for his role as Lafayette on True Blood–untimely death at just thirty-nine years old from heart failure immediately seemed to [Read More…]
Panic on the Streets of Rome: Morrissey & Italy Now Share Some Beef Together
Morrissey, already a man easily scandalized and sensitive to the comportment of others, may have just added another item to his list of things to [Read More…]
So Won’t You Be My Little Baby (Driver)
What’s a kid with tinnitus and a love of music to do but turn to the constant infiltration of songs swelling through his earbuds to [Read More…]
Kesha Goes Hippie Dippy Kabbalist for “Praying”
“Am I dead? Or is this one of those dreams?” The opening to Kesha’s latest video for the single, “Praying”–the first official release since 2016’s [Read More…]
If Independence Day Had Been Released in 2017
If Independence Day had been released in 2017 (we’re ignoring the whole existence of that Independence Day: Resurgence thing that happened in 2016–which was pre-Trump anyway [Read More…]
