The very best way to describe Scott Peterson’s demeanor is that it looks like he’s constantly posing for a photograph nobody is taking.

“Deride and Conquer,” far and away the best essay ever published about network advertising,

convoluted to the point of pain.

The real authority on a world we now view as constructed and not depicted becomes the medium that constructs our world-view.

complex haircuts

The overall result is a movie that’s funny while it’s trying to be deadly serious, which is as good a definition of a flop as there is, and Dune was indeed a huge, pretentious, incoherent flop.

evidence of a steely determination to indulge the passenger in ways that go far beyond any halfway-sane passenger’s own expectations.

too many choices and no chooser’s manual,

with the regretless cheer of a man for whom issues of choice became irrelevant long ago.