Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Madonna Declares the World’s Most Important Profession is Prostitution–And She’s Absolutely Right
Madonna, who continues to effortlessly land magazine covers well after what most assholes would call “the prime of her career,” lends her typical brand of [Read More…]
Courtney Love To Tour With Lana Del Rey, Much To Frances Bean’s Probable Chagrin
Back in June, when Lana Del Rey’s sophomore album, Ultraviolence, was just coming out, the arcane chanteuse told an interviewer for The Guardian, “I wish [Read More…]
What Rainer Fassbinder’s Ali Says About Outsider Influence on Relationsips
“Sometimes I wish it was just you and me alone in the world.” So says Emmi (Brigitte Mira), the widowed protagonist in one of Rainer [Read More…]
A Tale of Three Bettys: Hofstadt, Draper and Francis
While it is generally assumed that Don Draper is the master of reinvention on Mad Men, in truth, it is Betty Hofstadt/Betty Draper/Betty Francis. Starting [Read More…]
Ariel Pink: The Men’s Activist White Men Have Been Waiting For
Ariel Pink has been around longer than most L.A. restaurants, and yet, it is only now with the release of his thirteenth–yes thirteenth (fourteen, if [Read More…]
TV’s Best Thanksgiving Episodes
Even for the most adamant haters of Thanksgiving (see: Chandler Bing), one can always take comfort in enjoying the crème de la crème of television [Read More…]
The Most Straightforward Movie Titles of All-Time
Most films like to leave a bit to the imagination when it comes to their title. Even something as seemingly obvious as Sunset Boulevard isn’t [Read More…]
Suppression, Or A Betty Draper Thanksgiving
When it comes to the holidays, and Thanksgiving in particular, it’s important to take a fat Betty Draper/Betty Francis approach: eat daintily, if at all. [Read More…]
Mourning the Loss of the Acceptance of Maudlinness in Film (Specifically 90s Cinema)
While, at the time it was happening, the 90s appeared to be an angst-ridden, moody decade, looking back now, it seems like everyone was complaining [Read More…]
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Ideal Tumblrer
Tumblr is very much the type of thing that Zelda Fitzgerald could have used during her era of oppression as an aspiring writer. Considered an [Read More…]
