PopPolitics has been on a very light publishing schedule since May 7. Maybe their usual collaborators have been moving to better paying gigs? Whatever the reason, I hope they'll be able to resume publishing regularly; there are very little good webzines left out there. A list of the articles they've published in the last 4 months follows.

05.20.03
The (Un)Bearable Darkness of Buffy
by Christopher Wisniewski
Buffy grew darker -- but no less compelling -- as it traded in the well-trodden world of teen angst for the more ambiguous territory of young adulthood.

05.20.03
Life After Death
by Cynthia Fuchs
While Buffy is about powerful girls and youthful agency, it has always retained its somber, iconic and mythic interest in death

07.13.03
True Love for Losers
by Richard C. Crepeau
Now is the time to celebrate the Chicago Cubs' gloriously unmatched century of futility

07.13.03
Muzak for the Masses?
by Bret McCabe
Radiohead and Steely Dan reach the limits of their experimentation

08.05.03
The Culture Industry Has You
by Thomas Dodson
How the Frankfurt School might be the key to unlock the postmodern mysteries of The Matrix

08.05.03
Alternative America
by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
A new documentary amplifies voices of dissent

A new entry has been added to the Nathan Alderman ouvre on TeeVee: Salvador Dali Meets Saturday Morning, an appreciation for capital-dubya Weird cartoons ("quality brain-melting") which, as he points out, can only be found on Cartoon Network. Namely, he talks on and on about Courage the Cowardly Dog ("I don't know what frequency creator John R. Dillworth's brain is tuned to, but my mental radio certainly can't pick it up") and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law ("a comedy smart bomb, dead set on violating all your beloved cartoon memories").

I've previously written about Harvey Birdman, so I'll just add my agreement to Mr. Alderman's endorsement of Courage. Though I'm not too fond of the character design on this show (I'm more of a Hanna-Barbera classisist, prefering simple lines and curves and minimal features; I like the character designs on Dexter's Laboratory or Johnny Bravo a lot more), the rougues gallery parading through this show is quite the funny lot: try to imagine a dam-building beaver whose dream is to play the skins at jazz nightclubs or a duck deity who tries to woo Courage's mistress off to his heavenly home, and you'll just begin to get the picture.

Damn, I love cartoons!