“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil and the love of … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
Moving On: A Partial List of People I’ve Somehow Wronged Due to Drinking Over the Past 20 Years
Julie Andrews Nick Greto Kate Lockwood Joe Austin Laurie Hand Meghan Mac Geoff Beaver … Read More
Kurt Vonnegut on Censorship
“There is the word ‘motherfucker’ one time in my Slaughterhouse-Five, as in, ‘Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.’ Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers. … Read More
Film Capsule: Surviving Progress
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. So goes the central theme – and cautionary advice – of Surviving Progress, a remarkable documentary directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese. The angle, which Progress reinforces … Read More … Read More
Moving On: The Things We Think (& Do Not Say)
By Bob Hill Twenty years ago in the side bedroom of a second-story shack on the 100 block of East Maple, two drunk kids set to wrestling at each other in the dark – he in a second-hand pair of Umbros, … Read More
Michael Chabon on the Midnight Disease
“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim – even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon – feels like a person lying in a sweltering … Read More
Film Capsule: All In: The Poker Movie
From French aristocrats to World War II vets; from Riverboat Dandies to Texas Rounders. From The Mayfair Club to the New York school; from the living rooms to Las Vegas. From the sharks to the suckers; from the mavericks to … Read More