Tag: coronavirus
More Generational Shade Is Coughed Up in Sick
COVID-19, despite being an ongoing “phenomenon,” is presently something that the masses prefer to “relegate” to “the past.” And, being that it currently feels like [Read More…]
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Touches on the Craving for a Tangible Community That Has Been Lost Among Humans
“It’s nice to do together, because it’s well-intentioned,” Jenny Slate says in a 2011 interview with Brian Williams (who also seems only too eager to [Read More…]
The Pervasiveness of the Vaccine in America Has Merely Confirmed the Country’s Belief That Suffering (“Too Long”) is For Suckers
It’s among the many ironies of the U.S. that the “American work ethic” is one punctuated by long hours but little actual output (or much [Read More…]
Tom Cruise Being the Self-Imposed Hero of the Film Industry Was Probably Written in the Stars
While Tom Cruise has come to be increasingly less respected over the past couple decades as both actor and human being, no one had ever [Read More…]
In Fatal Attraction Fashion, Contagion Undercuttingly Positions Infidelity/Hoedom As the Cause of Society’s Woes
The beginning of Steven Soderbergh’s now iconic film, Contagion, wastes no time in making a point about how bad girls who do bad things (and [Read More…]
Contagion’s Unemotional Approach To Presenting A Novel Virus’ Creation and Chaos
Back in January, when coronavirus was nothing more than “China’s problem” to most Americans, Contagion, as a “relevant revisit,” started to rise up the ranks [Read More…]
Before ‘Rona, The Disease Everyone Wanted to Ignore
AIDS, of course, was always going to be easier to ignore when it first burst onto the scene. Mind you, it was circulating well before [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Tries To Turn the World Into A Disco Ball Again, But We’re A Long Way From the Bacchanalian Days of the 70s
When all else has failed (to attract interest), Kylie Minogue has always returned to her dance floor roots. The ones that launched her to international [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
