Tag: horror film

• // tortured genius

  

  People often said that he finished sentences for me. Well, he did. He was between me and the world. He not only answered the telephone; he finished my sentences. He was the baffle between me and the world at large. —Joan Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold   ICYMI, my latest film conversation…

  TKM

  October 15, 2018

  environment, film, lit crit, music, poetry, press

  #MeToo, Berfrois, bro lit, california building, David Foster Wallace, DFW, Gregory Giles, horror film, Infinite Jest, Joan Didion, Mary Karr, Queen Mobs, tortured genius

• // elephants wouldn’t wonder

    Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…

  TKM

  May 16, 2016

  education, environment, film, lit crit, press

  animal agriculture, animal rights, Berfrois, company town, film criticism, Gregory Giles, horror film, oakland, oakland unified school district, ousd, russell bennetts, tiny houses, vegan