Carl Spackler
“People say, you know, I’m an idiot or something."
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Laddoo vs. Cake
The cake has always been at odds with Indian culture.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
We Are Iron Man
“Heavy boots of lead / Fills his victims full of dread."
Stay on Track
Blursday the fortyteenth of Maprilay.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Judge Smails
"Some people simply do not belong."
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."