Compensating For What Now?

Writing about movies is sublimation, a way of compensating for a doomed, unrequited love affair with a flickering image.

Peter Keogh, who wrote that at his blog, also has an interesting—if not entirely convincing—article in the Boston Phoenix on how trends at the movies may signal electoral doom for Republicans. (Via Dave Wiegel at Hit and Run). More on this later, at least I hope.

Unrelated: Supersystem, who, as far as I can tell, is the epitome of updated-for-2006-post-Fugazi-D.C.-dance-punk, pretty much rules live.