Down these mean streets walks a man who won’t allow his rug to be pissed on.
Roger Ebert has selected The Big Lebowski as his most-recent Great Movie.
Edit: I think his original review is better.
Writers at Their Day Jobs
Lapham’s Quarterly has a fun infographic showing the day jobs of writers including Faulkner, Kafka and T.S. Eliot.
A Mayor for All Seasons
Evan Osnos has a profile in the New Yorker of Chicago’s Mayor Daley, “The Daley Show,” which does a good job of cataloguing the man and all of his frustrating complications. But Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader has a compelling comeback, “Taking the New Yorker for a Ride,” charging that the profile falls for the typically myth-making surrounding the mayor.
My favorite line in Joravsky’s piece? The one citing people’s weakness for the argument that Chicago’s success relative to other rust-belt towns is the result of Daley’s strong-man rule.
But I’ll just ask our visiting correspondents to reconsider the pervasive view that Chicago needs a temperamental tyrant who oversees a corrupt and inefficient regime in order to get anything done.
In the same issue of the Reader, reporter Mick Dumke explores why the time might be right for Daley to be replaced in “Time for a Revolution.” I doubt it, but I hope so.
Stefan Schumacher: No Big Deal
Here’s the title track from FLYMF alum Stefan Schumacher’s “No Big Deal EP.” It’s a fun listen.
Stefan’s work for FLYMF included I Love My Dingy Poppers.
Onomatopoeia Magazine Launches
The first issue of Onomatopeia Magazine, the online literary journal created by FLYMF alum Bobby D. Lux, is now online! Check out poems, fiction, essays and more from Christopher Johnson, Daddio Mick, Chris Kent, Sarah E. Lowe, Gregory Cohen, Jara Jones, Anthony Liccione, Marta Pelrine-Bacon and Bobby himself!
Bobby is the author of the short-story collection, The Exciting Life and Death of the Amazing Henry and Other stories (which I reviewed here). He was also a longtime FLYMF contributor, with a number of stories in FLYMF’s Greatest Hits. Bobby’s FLYMF work includes When The Camera Stopped Rolling, Mike Tyson Movie Reviews, O’Neill ‘Scopes’ An Early Career, Monkey Dance, Outrageous Claims, In Memorium, Adventures In Time Travel, The Worst Story Ever, Batman Begins By Superman, The Coreys, Tonto’s Shocking Discovery, Vegas Wedding, The Solution To America’s Problems, Superman Returns, The Pirates Of Swenxof, and “Sly” Nostalgia.