Bart Bull

Some times the best thing for your reputation is the person attacking it. (Corollary: Not always, just sometimes. )

So now we're short another screwball, and down a knucklehead too.  And completely missing a genius and a half. Rest in peace, buddy. B...

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I got given carte blanche at SPIN to write whatever I wanted, really — really! —  but one time I got asked point blank:  Who do you most wan...

In my experience, being a terrorist has a whole lot to do with falling asleep in front of the TV on the couch of your former girlfriend...

Stay tuned for new communiques from the N.C.L.F. — or me, anyway — over the next few days. Learn the backstory on the grinning cowpoke held...

Salt — so easy to add, so hard to remove.

(As a kid in Arizona, they used to make you memorize The Five C's, which included "Climate" but not "Communism" ...

The last time I was in Dennis Hopper's house was — let's be fairly honest — the only time. This was a while ago. Things may have...

(A brief hunk of my unfortunately destroyed novel that was sort of a love song about Los Angeles.) You couldn't see faces when they cam...

Hey ! Good news ! (If maybe a little late. Maybe I'm not paying the proper attention to this stuff.) (Hey, but I'm willing, near-p...

Directors are a debased currency in today's Hollywood. Producers count, studio heads are stars, stars are social philosophers, agents in...

Life is a long series of humiliations. If you're lucky, anyway.

The best way to make sense of things is to be stupid.

Travel can be so narrowing. (Attributed, falsely, to Rick Steves.)