Steven Bagley
E-Mail: shbagley@gmail.com
Web Page: http://blastmagazine.com/overthinking-it
Short bio: Steven H. Bagley is a Blast correspondent
Articles by Steven H. Bagley:
July 14, 2009 Foreign policy would make more sense to such a large group of people if we could reliably often discuss it using rap feuds as examples. Tongue could be firmly planted in cheek here, but Marc Lynch makes a couple of really good points.
About foreign policy. And also Jay-Z. To wit:
But the limits on [...]
July 6, 2009Tab dump!
So I’ve got three articles sitting in my Firefox window, and I need to get rid of them if I’m going to scratch this itch at the back of my brain. Over the weekend last week three separate articles on three very different news sources identify just how crazy the Republican Party is. [...]
And, in brief, here is why:
And yet — and here’s the part where I really think ROTF approaches “art movie” status — the movie’s id overload reaches such crazy levels that the fabric of reality itself starts to break down. Michael Bay has boasted about how every single shot in the movie has so much [...]
Internet!
Here are my most recent book reviews (in most to least recent):
1) “Horse Soldiers” by Doug Stanton sucked.
2) “Hey! Nietzsche! Leave them kids alone!” by Craig Schuftan was amazing.
3) “The Chris Farley Show” by Tanner Colby and Tom Farley, Jr. surprisingly stuck with me (and still does).
More stuff right here.
When you’re writing a book about the military, this critic thinks, you’ve got to be a great writer. You have got to know what you’re doing, and you have got to understand the shark-infested waters you’re swimming in.
A bad book about the military will do one or several of the following things: 1) reduce [...]
Doug Stanton’s newest novel is waiting to be directed by Tony Scott.
June 21, 2009So, I got unemployed a long time ago (back in March, he says, dusting off the cobwebs from Overthinking It), and was sitting in my apartment applying for jobs with my girlfriend this morning, when I came across this quotation, from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say, ‘It is in me, and [...]
Funny, smart, scholarly, witty and brilliant.
June 1, 2009You can’t think about Chris Farley and not have an opinion of him.
March 7, 2009Okay, so I went to see that little movie based on some four-color funny book that just hit theaters, “Watchmen,” and maybe it was the inundation that comes along with every big-budget movie like this, but when I finally got to see how Zach Snyder, David Hayter and Alex Tse rendered their homage to Alan [...]
March 7, 2009The deconstructionist middle finger of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen†showed an industry built around taking masked heroes seriously just how silly it was.
It was the punk kid in the back of the classroom who knew everything already, and was angry with and bored at the kid in the front of the classroom who didn’t know the [...]
Woke up this morning to a pair of slap-you-in-the-face headlines. The first, from Boingboing, is a good earnest ‘how is everybody doing’ post:
What are you telling yourself? How are you all sleeping at night? Are you hedging your bets with canned goods and shotguns, or plans for urban communal farming? Are you starting a business? [...]
February 17, 2009Did you hear? It’ll be Mr. Darcy vs. the Predator!
It might prove something of a boon to those who reach for the remote control when yet another costume drama comes on television: Elton John’s Rocket Pictures is developing a new spin on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this time featuring a nefarious seven-foot extraterrestrial with [...]
The hardest kind of review to write is a review for a mediocre film. I didn’t hate “Friday the 13th” as much as I hated “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and I certainly didn’t love the movie as much as I loved “Milk.”
It was exactly what you would expect from a horror movie. Disposable, [...]
John Updike, one of the most critically acclaimed American authors of the 20th century, died in Danvers, Mass. on Jan. 26.
Mr. Updike had been battling lung cancer. He was 76.
The author of the “Rabbit” series and countless contributions to the New Yorker magazine was hailed throughout his career as an author whose work elevated the [...]
John Updike, 76, best selling author, died Tuesday after succumbing to lung cancer. [...]
December 19, 2008I can’t, for the life of me, think of a good reason you should see the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” [...]
December 16, 2008The openly gay Van Sant makes a movie about an openly gay politician. Is it a gay movie? Not explicitly. It’s a movie about hope, and a movie about changing the world.
October 4, 2007It would appear that the man who gave us culturally ubiquitous terms “Cyberspace” and “The Matrix” (both from his landscape-shattering breakout novel “Neuromancer”) has been blown over by Google, the iPod and locative art.
“Spook Country” is an accidental sequel to William Gibson’s post-911 requiem “Pattern Recognition,” according to a video on his website. It reads [...]
Reading O.J. Simpson’s ghostwritten pot-boiler If I Did It is a little like coming home from school to see both of your parents drunk, practicing bondage in your living room. You might be horrified, and you know you’ll never be the same again, but you just can’t look away.
The book is horrifying in a nutshell [...]
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