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Favorite sites
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The website of the essential podcast, with a lively forum.
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Essential reading from the critic who first pointed me the way to a whole moving world I hadn't known about. "Blog" is too ugly a word.
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There aren't any better critics working today than these two.
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No one knows more about cinema or makes more elegant arguments and analyses.
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The excellent auteurist, heavily influenced by Andrew Sarris and "The American Cinema".
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Illuminating film analyses from various contributors, one entry for every day of the year.
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The great historian and writer. Engrossing essays, good faith theory.
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Thoughtful, fun film blog by Jim Emerson, the editor of RogerEbert.com.
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The Onion's excellent stable of critics.
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Lively discussion of popular culture.
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Alex Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's newsletter tells it like it is, not the way you wish it was. As radical as reality, and all that.
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The editors' take on cinema. From choices like these, good politics flow. Or is it the other way around?
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This BBC radio show hosted by the lead singer of Elbow plays my favorites and turns me on to new sounds.
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Stirring writing on music and life from my man Danny Alexander.
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When you feel like 'avin' a laugh (and when don't you?). Ricky's blog keeps you abreast of all the illustrated Karl news you crave.
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Useful Links
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The official Squarespace site.
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Squarespace release and service announcements.
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A blog straight from the mouths -- err, keyboards -- of Squarespacers.
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Did you ever envision the perfect Southern road trip, but weren't sure how to string together the mythic and the real? Then get your hands on a copy of the new hit book by Scott Pfeiffer and Karolyn Steele-Pfeiffer, The Grit, the Grumble, and the Grandeur: Chicago to New Orleans: A Guide to Travel, Food, and Culture. It'll give you the details you need to burn down Highway 61 from Chicago to New Orleans along the Mississippi. Start planning your journey through the Southern past today.
"Again the Beginner," the new album from Al Rose (with notes/comments by yours truly). Available at Bandcamp, Apple Music and Amazon.
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