Tag: james lileks

Ed Morrissey allows himself to see what cannot be unseen…

…1970s fashion.

No, I’m not going to show you any of that, because, well, I don’t want any of those pictures on my website.  But I will link to James Lilek’s immortal Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible ’70s, because if you think that the clothes back then were bad…

Ain’t no tent big enough for Ted Rall.

No, Stacy.  Sorry, but no.  Ted Rall defines himself by what he hates; when he flips, he’s going to end up in some other internal head-space that’s just as tediously scary and banally ugly as the one that he was in for the last eight years.  And when the next President takes office, he’ll hate that office holder, too; and so on, and so on, and so on.  So let him rot where he is.

Besides, there’s the entire ‘draws like he’s using a Sharpie stuck in his armpit’ thing – which is actually kind of funny: I completely misremembered where James Lileks suggested Rall inserted his pen.

And, honestly, I like my version better.

Crossposted to RedState.

You know, I STILL can’t figure out if Land of the Lost is going to be worth it.

If you watch the video:

…you rapidly come to the conclusion that the basic principle is, well, kind of stupid.  Then again, so was the the original series.  I mean, let’s face it: it was crap, crap, crap, like much of Sid & Marty Kroft’s work (all hail James Lileks for coming up with the indispensable adjective “Lovekroftian,” by the way: I’d email it to Ken Hite, except he might run with it, God help us all).  Which would be a double-strength not-a-chance, except that Will Ferrell’s involved.  The guy has a talent for making the best of crap.

So it’s a hard call.  Maybe when it hits video.