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...Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-gay radicals are the stuff of David Goldman's weekends...
Cataloging about 150 live-links, Gold- man's page is a bistro of hate. Users choosing to view hate by category are presented with nine categories: white supremacy, neo-Nazism, black racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay, anti-Christian, anti-Arab, Christian identity and Holocaust denial...
...line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain. In true noir there is no reprieve...
...James' book is by far the best of the lot. Her earlier hymns to "simplicity" trademarked a special brand of neo-Puritan party poopery--don't shop for fun, move into a smaller house, throw out all credit cards but one--that nevertheless appealed to people whose lives seemed to move from one hassle to another. And since parenthood is the greatest hassle of all (as well as--obligatory disclaimer--delightful, magical, etc.), the method holds. Some of her tips are obvious: keep a master calendar showing your kids' appointments, stock your car with snacks and paper towels. Others...
...what? Punk poets came and went, Kurt Cobain chief among them, and a folk-rock movement arose again--neo-folkies like Beck, Indigo Girls, Laura Love, all charged with youth but drawing on the past. Where was Dylan? His albums in the '90s have been mostly cautious retoolings--CDs laden with aged, unreleased material or dusty covers of traditional folk songs...