As Radiohead has entered their third decade of existence (it’s now 25 years since Pablo Honey was released), it’s become increasingly fashionable to call the band overrated in hindsight, particularly among younger folks who didn’t spend any of their formative years with the band (I’m 37). Perhaps that’s just a function of perception and […]
Month: November 2018

The discipline not to write setting: THE SHIELD and THE ORDER OF THE STICK
Try not to write when you’re living here! -Rosemary Howard (Carrie Fisher), 30 Rock As The Solute’s Grant Nebel has written, drama is a subtractive genre. Everything that isn’t an action by the characters reduces our identification with the characters. To maintain this kind of focus, though, a story must often sacrifice detail. The Shield held to […]
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