This set of video essays was recently posted at Press Play, aimed at “anyone who’s ever turned away from a movie because of a director’s shaky camera.” The basic argument is that action cinema of the past was fairly “classical” in that even during intense action they were “meticulous and patient.” You could tell what […]
Joel VandenBrink, Owner and Brewmaster of Two Beers Brewing, discusses beer-making, the act of creating, and the value of bringing people together.
If, as the editors of The Other Journal write, “there is a growing cultural concern that we are abstracted from our food’s source and forgetful of its meaning,” then attending to our words is indispensible for diagnosing the nature of our abstraction and forgetfulness, as well as for keeping vigil against it.[1] In so attending, there […]
This may well be the year of Satan. A number of books, films, and presidential candidates seem to suggest we have yet to give up on our fascination with Old Horny. Two of the ‘must have’ books of the year include Jeff Pugh’s The Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office, and my very own, The […]
Silent Souls is a film about death. But the precise pace of this film, which is full of the kind of lengthy driving sequences that lull one into contemplation, provided plenty of room to think about the implications of the dead body in the back seat. There are a lot of ways to think about […]
At first, Crazy, Stupid, Love made me mad. With a bit of time, the vitriolic feelings have all but drained, leaving me with some benign images of Ryan Gosling in a suit. The movie is his, after all, despite its ambitions to be some sort of intergenerational portrait of […]
Lee Price is a figurative painter from New York. She has been painting women and food for over twenty years and continues to address the intersections of food with body image, addiction, and unabating desire. In this interview Price shares her trajectory as a painter, her personal struggles with food, and the ongoing battle of […]
Jeffrey C. Pugh is the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, NC. He is the author of several books including his latest, Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office. Despite allegations that I am his illegitimate son stemming from a torrid love-affair with Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio (a vicious […]
Years of interviews with various ‘soldiers of God,’ way too many late-night shenanigans with some sketchy shamans, and trying to locate just one hot spiritual warrior to exorcise my demons have finally come to fruition. The Devil Wears Nada: Satan Exposed! is now available for your consumption. If you’re curious as to what Satan has […]