Seth MacFarlane Loves Rape Jokes

My generation has seen its share of dysfunctional cartoon characters. Many of us were raised on The Simpsons, which arguably paved the way for South Park. I recall South Park making a huge impression on television and popular culture, even though I wasn’t allowed to watch it when it premiered in 1997. Adults older than… Continue reading Seth MacFarlane Loves Rape Jokes

Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One

“A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star. It invites forgivable prurience: What is that relationship like? Granted the intellectual’s hit hanky-panky pay dirt, but what’s in it for the porn star? Conversation? Ideas? Deconstruction?” That’s Glen Duncan, over at the New York Times on Colson Whitehead’s “zombie novel,”… Continue reading Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One