Judge Smails
"Some people simply do not belong."
Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a Boston- and Kingston (NY)-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of the consultancy Semiovox, editor of the websites SEMIOVOX and HILOBROW, and founding editor of The MIT Press's proto-sf RADIUM AGE series. He is an adjunct instructor at RISD and convenor of the monthly online Semiofest Sessions. His books include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored. In the ’90s, Josh published the intellectual zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a founding staffer and columnist for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section.
The Woollett Question
"A small, trivial, rather ridiculous object."
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
Danny Noonan
"Yes, sir. I'm your pal."
Virus X
A meme that has propagated from one pulp genre to another…
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”
Dr. Beeper
"Just snake a tube down her nose."
The Lawless One
“Aphrodite, forgive me!” the Lawless One wailed.
The Lady Vanishes
“Bless me, what an unpleasant journey!”
Caddy Shack
"There've been a lot of complaints already."
Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.
Golf Club
"Don't you have homes?"
Love, Dr. Strange
He looks like a man who’s been through an ordeal.
The Guv’nor
His commitment to peripatetic idling never wavers.