Unemployed Negativity

I recently gave a short presentation at the ACLA on the idea of the work image, a concept that I wrote about on this blog and in my book, Th...

  How it Started/How it is going The final episode of Better Call Saul is not just a finale to the series but to the entire Breaking Bad mul...

Breaking Bad  and its spinoff/prequel Better Call Saul  began with a premise that is familiar to nearly everyone. A mild mannered chemistry ...

Gilles Deleuze stated that montage is an "indirect image of time," in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul...

What follows should perhaps have the subtitle "Scattered Speculations on Breaking Bad" because it started as a post a few epis...

In Book Two of  the  Politics Aristotle famously criticizes those who pursue wealth without limit, those who fail to understand that wea...

The arc of Breaking Bad has been described by its creator, Vince Gilligan as going from "Mr. Chips to Scarface" as Walter Whi...

In a recent episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, in a quip that is smarter than he knows, referred to Arizona as “the methlab of de...

As something of a preliminary observation it is curious that three of the cable networks known for their high end shows (the sort that end ...