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12.22.99
• Apocalypse Already
From Issue 11/12
by Clarke Cooper
These days even the end of the world is Disneyfied.
• Camp: An Introduction
From Issue 11/12
by Joshua Glenn
Irony explained.
• Pure Evel
From Issue 13
by Dan Reines
Dan almost interviews Evel Knievel.
• Companile Free-Fall
From Issue 13
by John Marr
The end of Camponile's Age of Innocence.
• Zooming through Space
From Issue 13
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris explores the art of the zoom.
• Motley Cruise
From Issue 13
by Ingrid Schorr
A review of Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored.
• Vertigo Rush
From Issue 13
by Matt Goldberg
The X-Files and the X-philes seek the Truth.
• Feel Like a Stranger
From Issue 13
by Matt Goldberg
Why Matt Goldberg put on a skirt for The Greatful Dead.
• Their America: Yesss!...Thud
From Issue 13
by Slotcar Hatebath
Hatebath advocates X-treme sports related suicides.
• The Art of Being Uncomfortable
From Issue 13
by Lisa Carver
How to wear heels and be a woman.
• Hermenaut of the Month: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
From Issue 13
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn introduces issue 13's featured thinker, philosopher and poet, Baudelaire.
• The Astrologer Inside Me
From Issue 13
by Jim Thompson, discovered by A.S. Hamrah
A. S. Hamrah discovers Jim Thompson's horoscope predictions.
• A Swimming in the Head
From Issue 13
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris laments the restoration of Vertigo.
• Anorexic Outfitters
From Issue 14
by Pauline Wolstencroft
Pauline makes some noise about Urban Outfitters.
• Suffragist City
From Issue 14
by Dara Moskowitz
Dara Moskowitz does not feel bad for anorexics: a look at anorexia and food-disorders from a political and historical stand point.
• Interview with an Anorexic
From Issue 14
by Lisa Carver
Lisa Carver asks her babysitter some questions.
• Their America: Nudes on the Moon
From Issue 14
by Slotcar Hatebath
Hatebath sends controversial works of art to the moon.
• The Academic as Apologist
From Issue 14
by A. S. Hamrah
Hamrah reviews "The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue" by Will Kaufman.
• Hermenaut of the Month: Simone Weil
From Issue 14
by Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn introduces featured thinker of issue 14, Simone Weil.
• Convent Erotica
From Issue 14
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris reviews nunspoitation films.
• La-La-La-La-La-La Lovely Linda
From Issue 14
by Ingrid Schorr
Ingrid Schorr explains her obsession.
• The Half Karen
From Issue 14
by A. S. Hamrah
A pose deconstructed.
• Whatever Works, Sucks
From Issue 14
by Joshua Glenn
Glenn reviews Meredith Bagby's "Rational Exuberance: The Influence of Generation X on the Economy".
• The Juice on Dick Gregory
From Issue 14
by Dan Reines
Dick Gregory will never die.
• My Life as a Wookiee
From Issue 14
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke discusses what is essentially a religious question.
• Disintermediated!
From Issue 14
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara laments the passing of the middle man.
• Their America: Bar? None
From Issue 15
by Slotcar Hatebath
Does beer taste better in faux-Irish pubs?
• Letter from London: Pay Attention
From Issue 15
by Matthew de Abaitua
Billboards offend Matthew on his taxi ride.
• Memories of the Biosphere
From Issue 15
by Margaret Blonder
Margaret Blonder discusses the sorry fate of Biosphere 2.
• Noisy Parker: Queens of the Stone Age
From Issue 15
by James Parker
Queens of the Stone Age, Soul Brains, Lungfish, and more.
• Hermenaut of the Month: Philip K. Dick
From Issue 15
by Joshua Glenn
Joshua Glenn introduces issue 15's Hermenaut of the Month, Philip K. Dick.
• Fake Authenticity: An Introduction
From Issue 15
by Joshua Glenn
Joshua Glenn explains the theme of issue 15.
• Onward Christian Tourists
From Issue 15
by Mary E. Ladd and Julie Wiskirchen
These Hermenaut reporters go on a religious pilgrimage to the ruins of Holyland USA.
• Saved by Betrayal
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara explores the loss of "raw power" in the restoration of Touch of Evil.
• An Interview with Dan Clowes
From Issue 15
by Joshua Glenn
Comicbook writer and artist Daniel Clowes loves you tenderly.
• Letter from LA
From Issue 15
by Dan Reines
Dan Reines loves fake meat
• The B Side of Paradise: The Ten Best jazz Records for Driving
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris counts down the best tunes for tuning out on the road.
• The Will to Scorn
From Issue 15
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper discusses the Golden Rule of cinematic etiquette.
• Hannah Arendt
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn kicks off the Wicked Pavilion with a little on-line book group.
• Atlas Against the Czar
by Chris Fujiwara
The sword and sandal runs its course.
12.28.99
•James Parker's Golden Ears: Punk Rock Karaoke
by James Parker
01.05.00
• The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: An Introduction
by Club Havana
"The singular visions of the films we like will overshadow the stuffed-and-mounted 'classics' of a movie culture that refuses to admit there's a world out there waiting to be discovered."
• The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1939
by Club Havana
Huge monoliths of that golden year and the expressive potential of the image.
01.12.00
• Afternoon of a Blakey-ite
by Chris Fujiwara
Learn how to love the music through the object.
01.19.00
• James Parker's Golden Ears: Scissorfight
by James Parker
01.26.00
• The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1946
by Club Havana
Post-war disillusionment and the inadequacy of film noir.
02.02.00
• Pinocchio for Dummies
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper does not review Bicentennial Man.
02.09.00
•Castle of Blood
by Chris Fujiwara
What happens when a film entertains us?
02.16.00
• The Real Poseidon Adventure
From Issue 7
by Ingrid Schorr
Archetypal Roles in Beverly Hills: 90210.
02.23.00
• Journal: February 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and his dailies from one year ago.
03.01.00
• A Better Mousetrap
by A. S. Hamrah
What was deservedly an obscure fetish—the desire to see small,defenseless animals crushed under women's heels—is underground no more.
03.08.00
• The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1953
by Club Havana
CinemaScope, 3D, progressive aesthetics, and "psychotronic" films.
03.15.00
•The Phenomenology of Reverb
by David Rothenberg
Reverb works directly at the level of the senses, affecting us before we can analyze it and decide what is happening.
03.22.00
•Nobody Hugged Goodbye
by Mr. Slotcar Hatebath
Hatebath mourns and celebrates the end of an era.
03.29.00
•Journal: March 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and his review of book reviewer Michiko Kakutani.
04.05.00
•No Hidden Meanings
by Susan Roe
The market (and PBS) forever displaces us and our hidden meanings.
04.12.00
•Naked Co-Ed Molerat Games
by Clarke Cooper
We don't expect much from the Action/Adventure aisle.
04.19.00
•Journal: April 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn walks the tightrope between philosophy and daredeviltry.
04.26.00
•Simpsons at the Gates: Intimations of the Coming Barbarism
by Keith Gessen
The loss of a referenceable reality will, in all likelihood, eventually destroy our civilization.
05.03.00
•Journal: May 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and Dana Plato.
05.10.00
•Freaknolia
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara tells us something "important" about American cinema.
05.17.00
•Softcore, You Know the Score
by James Parker
James Parker's hack soul flickers near the light of Film Criticism.
05.24.00
•The Failure of the New Subjectivity
by Peter Bebergal
The new voices of existentialism are a constant reminder of the failure of that once life-affirming notion: subjectivity.
05.31.00
•Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1968
by Club Havana
High art and low art smashed into each other in the cinema of 1968.
06.07.00
•Journal: June 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and becomes idle.
06.14.00
•"I Like My Rails"
by Matthew Battles
The Fat Controller washes trains' brains.
06.21.00
•100 Years...100 Laughs
by Chris Fujiwara
AFI salutes America's funniest movies.
06.28.00
•But first...Are You Experienced
by James Parker
Innocence and experience collide in the bakery, on the bookshelves, and in the music hall.
07.05.00
•Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1976
by Club Havana
The best films of 1976 are difficult and demanding, showing helplessness and lack of direction.
07.12.00
•Journal: July 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn reexamines himself and finds Oprah Winfrey.
07.19.00
•Philosophywatch
Hermenaut Editors
Hermenaut's public service column is now online.
07.26.00
•Frappucino Solo
as discovered by Matthew Battles
Battles found the page proofs from what would have been the first issue of a bold venture. We reprint Stanley Fish's introductory editorial salvo.
08.02.00
•Journal: August 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and Harper's.
08.09.00
•Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1986
by Club Havana
1983 saw, on the one hand, the release of successful entertainments that proved how thoroughly the seventh art had degenerated.
08.16.00
•I After the Cloudy Doubly Beautifully
by Matthew Battles
Matthew Battles discovers Walter Benjamin's translation machine.
08.23.00
•Philosophy Hits the Newsstands
by Joshua Glenn
There is, by all accounts, an "applied philosophy" movement afoot in the world today.
08.30.00
•HUIS CLOS PARTIE DEUX (No Exit Part II)
by Todd Levin
Todd Levin attempts to translate the long-lost second act to Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit.
09.06.00
•Journal: September 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and goes into intellectual exile.
09.08.00
•Lights, Camera, Organ!
From Issue 15
by A.S. Hamrah
A. S. Hamrah reviews a book by Ray Manzerick.
09.13.00
•A Queer Thing
by James Parker
James Parker reviews "Writing on Drugs," by Sadie Plant.
09.15.00
•Causes, Parallels, and Talking Horses
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara is repeatedly amazed by Arsenal.
09.20.00
•Club Havana Secret history of Cinema: 1994
by Club Havana
1994 is the year, more than any other, that epitomizes the insanity of the Secret History of Cinema project.
09.22.00
•I'm Reading As Fast As I Can: Minnie Minola's Story
From Issue 15
by Ingrid Schorr
R.E.M. begs Ingrid Schorr not to go back to Rockville.
09.27.00
•The Manuscript of Belz
by Matthew Battles
Matthew Battles spins a tale of fake authenticity, culture, and fantasy.
09.29.00
•The Best Letters Ever
by Editors
A selection culled from the sacks and sacks of reader mail we've received since we started publishing in 1992.
10.04.00
•Journal: October 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and opposes the world's inherent meaninglessness.
10.06.00
•Debasement by Acclaim
From Issue 15
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper inspects celebrity.
10.11.00
•The Nitty Gritty of Nirvana
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn speaks with Robert Thurman about Buddhism, translation, and the politics of enlightenment.
10.13.00
•Anorexia/Technology: An Introduction
From Issue 14
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn introduces the dual theme of print issue 14.
10.18.00
•If You Fake It, They Will Come
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper introduces readers to the family of extra-special effects.
10.20.00
•From Italy to Iran
From Issue 15
by A. S. Hamrah
Scott Hamrah discusses Rosellini and Voyage to Italy.
10.25.00
•Payload
by Contributing Editors
Hermenaut staff writers review enough to pay the bills.
10.27.00
•I, Robot
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris angers MST3K fans.
11.01.00
•Journal: November 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and discovers truth and beauty.
11.03.00
•Intimate Television
From Issue 15
by Ernest Pascucci
Architecture and television
11.08.00
•On Queer Theory
by Caleb Crain
Remarks at the New York Association of Scholars for Reasoned Discourse in a Free Society.
11.10.00
•Comoerotic
From Issue 15
by Joseph Lanza
Joseph Lanza finds himself channeling P. K. Dick.
11.15.00
•An Idler's Glossary
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn defines what it means to be an idler.
11.17.00
•Club 9, Pioneer Town
From Issue 15
by Marilyn Snell
Marilyn Snell visits a ghost town.
11.29.00
•Payload: 11.29.2000
by Contributing Editors
Hermenaut staff writers review enough to pay the bills.
12.01.00
•Dear Fuad Ramses
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
The recently uncovered private correspondences of Fuad Ramses, Egyptian caterer.
12.06.00
•Journal: December 1999
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and Sly Stallone.
12.08.00
•Hermenaut of the Month: Oscar Wilde
From Issue 11/12
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn introduces Oscar Wilde, HOM from the famous Camp Issue.
12.13.00
•A Happy Little Dance
by Scott McLemee
A review of David Brooks's book, Bobos in Paradise.
12.15.00
•Identiopathy
From Issue 15
by Carol Carbone
Carol Carbone explores her own Inverted Self Aggrandizing Psychosis.
12.20.00
•The Sweetest Hangover
by Joshua Glenn
Joshua Glenn discovers the post-blotto bliss of hangover Nirvana.
12.22.00
•That Darn Drunk
From Issue 15
by Todd Levin
Todd Levin stumbles upon a new project at Disney.
12.27.00
•Payload: 12.27.2000
by Contributing Editors
Hermenaut staff writers review enough to pay the bills, including the Alphasmart 3000IR, Eros and Civilization, Classic European Cinema, Real Simple, and The Golden Compass.
12.29.00
•Switched-On Burnside
by A. S. Hamrah
A. S. Hamrah reviews R.L. Burnside's Come On In.
01.03.01
•Journal: January 1999, 2000
by Joshua Glenn
Josh Glenn re-examines himself and his final two FEED journals.
01.05.01
• Learning from Miami: An Architectural guide to Coping with Urban Sprawl
by Margaret Blonder
Margaret Blonder find beauty in the parking lot of an A&P.
01.10.01
•Insider, The Musical
by Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe interviews Chris Wilcha about his tape The Target Shoots First.
01.12.01
•Pilgrim's Progress
by Jessica Hundley
Jessica Hundley explores the relocation of authenticity in living museums.
01.17.01
•Two and a Half Hours Later
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper has a restful two and a half hours watching Cast Away.
01.19.01
•The B Side of Paradise: The Ten Best Jazz Records for Driving
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris and the cast of the Wicked Pavilion revisit the Ten Best.
01.24.01
•Hermenaut No. 16: Stockholm Syndrome
by Editors
We introduce the Stockholm Syndrome issue.
01.24.01
•The Reader Shrieks
Reader Mail
Frustrated readers bite their nails, hallucinate, and send us mail.
01.26.01
•Suffragist City
Dara Moskowitz
Dara Moskowitz weighs the pros and cons of historical anorexia.
01.31.01
•Payload
Contributing Editors
Several of Hermenaut's contributing editors get together to pay the bills. The reviews include Comb in Blue Water, We've Got Issues: The Get Real, No B.S., Guilt-Free Guide to What Really Matters, Time Regained, La Commune, The (Mystic, Conn.) Traveler
02.14.01
•Words and Feathers
Matthew Battles
Matthew Battles deranges the language.
02.16.01
•Motley Cruise
Ingrid Schorr
Ingrid remembers the day Princess Diana passed away and Tommy Lee steered a boat with his penis.
02.21.01
•Noisy Parker
James Parker
James reviews Snapcase, Richard Meltzer and more.
02.28.01
•Payload
Contributing Editors
Several of Hermenaut's contributing editors get some reviews together to pay the bills, including Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan, The House of Mirth, Up in Mabel's Room and Getting Gertie's Garter, Snatch, and Reading 1922: a Return to the Scene of the Modern by Michael North.
03.07.01
•Anywhere But Anywhere
Clarke Cooper
Forget the brain tumor—did you know that whenever you use a cellular telephone you're destroying your own existence?
03.14.01
•Reading As Fast As I Can
Ingrid Schorr
Ingrid winces her way through The Rules and other contemporary women's How To books.
03.16.01
•Marlo's Meiji Masterpiece
Venus de Malachite
Venus de Malachite laments the conservation of the inauthentic.
03.21.01
•Etiquette
Joshua Glenn
Josh explains why we all need stationery.
03.28.01
•Payload
Contributing Editors
In the current installment we find: Susan Roe on Bruce Tulgan's Managing Generation X; Jen Collins on the 2001 Dunkin' Donuts calendar; T.R. Johnson on William Osborn's The Wild Frontier; Ingrid Schorr on Bob Flanagan's Pain Journal; and Josh Glenn on Mel Gordon's Voluptuous Panic.
03.30.01
•Hermenaut of the Month: Bruce Lee
Joshua Glenn
Philosophical notions of action and inaction, self and not-self, voidness and wholeness, spontaneity and concentration, simplicity and ornamentation, division and integration, balance, harmony, and the importance of awareness.
04.04.01
•Farbe Schwatzen
Matthew Battles
It would seem—if this transcript is to be believed—that Martha Stewart's concept of color has attracted the interest of dead white men Ludwig Wittgenstein and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
•Lowball
by Roy Tompkins
Every week we feature a new comic illustration by Roy Tompkins. See more of Roy's work at his Web site.
•Topsy Turvy
by Peter Kuper
Every week we feature a new comic illustration by Peter Kuper. See more of his work here.
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