Matt Hanson

Podcast Review: “The Joe Rogan Experience” — Taking Responsibility for Random Gab?

October 16, 2020
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As amusing and informative as The Joe Rogan Experience can be, a few podcast interviews doth not an actual education make.

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Short Fuse Podcast #30 — Matt & Lucas, Abridged

October 14, 2020
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What happens when the illusive Zoom gods don’t cooperate — a rescue mission.

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Shelter in Place Attractions: October 16 through November 3 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

September 20, 2020
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Rock Album: 1970’s “Live at Goose Lake” — The Stooges Hitting Their Feral Stride

September 6, 2020
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If we factor in the triple-size oversell crowd, the bad drugs circulating, and the home field advantage, there was plenty there to inspire The Stooges to raise some merry hell.

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Television Review: “Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn” — A Soulless Man

July 17, 2020
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Roy Cohn was much more pernicious than Joe McCarthy because he was far more adept at undercutting the relevance of so-called American values.

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Shelter in Place Attractions: September 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

July 12, 2020
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Reconsideration: “A Confederacy of Dunces” — Still an American Comic Masterpiece?

June 29, 2020
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A reassessment on the 40th anniversary of A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that many consider one of the funniest ever written by an American.

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Book Review: “The Unsuitable” — A Super Female Superego

June 15, 2020
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The text is littered with accusatory, staccato lines from mama Wince, whose conversations with her daughter achieve Carrie-esque arias of passive aggressiveness.

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Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life

May 28, 2020
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“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”

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Book Review: “Cleanness” — Eroticism as a State of Being

May 22, 2020
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The embrace of existential uncertainty in Cleanness enhances the reading experience because it helps us to understand what’s vitally important to the narrator.

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