Splitsider’s Brian Boone on the even-more-meta-than-you-realized Princess Bride: While in the movie Grandpa mentions that his story is “The Princess Bride, by S. Morgenstern,” Goldman’s book really explores that notion. The full title of the novel is The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. Goldman, he writes of himself [...]
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Nothing gets me riled up like a good Joe Soucheray column. This time, he chooses to focus his ire on the planned installation of bike lanes along one St. Paul street. What this means is that hypocrites who have a car or two in the driveway at home will now put on the Italian racing [...]
My friend Will suggested something to me last night that I had already been turning around in my head for the past couple of weeks. I had been complaining about my job, about how there’s just not enough work to do, about how I spent most of my day trying to pass the time checking [...]
Beatlemania produced some amazing merchandise — the Wing Dings Sneakers are my favorite.
Photo by Chris Schodt On July 18th, I interviewed Nathan Rabin, the head writer of The A.V. Club and author of The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture. Earlier today, The Bygone Bureau published a condensed version of our chat. Here, for your reading and listening pleasure, are both the fully [...]
I recently wrote an article for Kevin and Nick over at The Bygone Bureau titled The Kids’ Books Are Alright. (Kudos go to Kevin for the snappy title.) It was a subject I’d been kicking around for a while so when Kevin told me the Bureau had an opening, I jumped at the opportunity. I [...]