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Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper To IPad
wired.com 1 week agoDaniel Clowes may not be quite as cranky as the vinyl-loving fan of old-time music in the film adaptation of his Ghost World comic book, but the artist and writer shares the character's jaundiced view of newfangled technologies.
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Chernobyl Diaries
slate.com 3 days, 22 hours agoThe Chernobyl Diaries , directed by Brad Parker from a story idea by Oren Peli (who also produced and co-wrote) had promise as a horror-movie idea: Six featherbrained American tourists hire a Ukrainian “extreme tourism” guide to take them on a day trip to the ruins of Pripyat , the workers’ town that was abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster . The combination of “final girl” slasher movie with contemporary political allegory could have made for a bracing genre scramble, a discount version of J










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