With great power comes a little responsibility. As guest timberwossname, I inform you the best lit/film/culture online journal is Pseudopodium – formerly, Bellona Times. I wandered in one night by accident, while making my drunken way home. Well, it felt more like I fell through the roof, as Indiana Jones might find himself suddenly amongst the treasures of an ancient temple. For, you see, it’s one of those serially updated personal sites/online journals that goes back so far that it’s … older than blogging. Damn, you think, running a fingertrack through the dusty HTML. Place is old. 1999; 1997, even. Crap, some of this stuff was written in 1990. Frankly, it spooked me how good – smart and winning and heartfelt and erudite. Hazlitt and Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray and Ruskin. I felt about uncertainly in this marvelous terrain, then with increasing delight; finally I was cramming my pockets with treasure to call my own ever after. I have returned regularly and very lately entered into edifying correspondence with its ten-times admirable demiurge, Ray Davis.
Now go and don’t come back until you have read for an hour. I could tell you which are my favorites, but I want you to have your own, that you found yourself.
Here’s the song that gave my title. Hope Ray doesn’t mind me provoking you all to strain his bandwidth.
UPDATE: Just to explain the joke, the connection between the two is, via the world, ‘with a kick to it’.
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Before it was “Bellona Times”, it was “The Hotsy-Totsy Club”, named after a grotty little bar in Albany, California. Regardless, it’s one of the hidden treasures of the web.
Just read the review of Lost in Translation. Didn’t realise it was possible to miss the point of a movie by that wide a margin.
Ray & Dan Davies in a group blog would evoke a different tune …
I’ve been reading Bellona Times, now Pseudopodium, for years. It’s the best thing he’s done since Waterloo Sunset.
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