Nowtopian

Saw that movie last night I (heart) Huckabees. It’s got some moments that were fun. I liked it overall, but of course that’s in the context of going to any mass market movie with extremely low expectations. A couple of friends had given me reason to believe that I would enjoy this, and they were right.

There’s two main things I liked about it. One, it’s a fluffy cannonball in the Culture War and as such, probably makes a bunch of dejected liberals and even a few rads feel better these days. The scene at the Christian dinner table was clearly written by someone who is completely fed up with the idiotic “discourse” of the Xtian Right. It was momentarily satisfying to have the Mark Wahlberg character tell the family’s patriarch he was a hyprocite and then to shut the fuck up as he blathered on in his well-acted self-righteous hypocrisy.

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I saw this in a discarded Sunday newspaper, one of the best Oliphant cartoons I’ve seen in a long, long time. I knew right away that it was paying homage, too, which made it that much sweeter. See the entry below, July 1916.