New Batman piece up at The Beat











My piece on Tim Burton’s ground-breaking 1989 Batman is up at The Beat.  Due to The Beat’s recent flame-discouraging policy, response has been much more sober and respectful this time around.

The Alcott scholar

How famous is my 20-year-old monologue “Television?”

I knew it was being taught in high schools and colleges, but I didn’t know that papers on it can be purchased by lazy or uninspired students.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve been in school, but based on the opening paragraphs of the “scholarly paper” offered for sale here, the student who pays for this analysis is getting ripped off.