The Michael Canfield Channel

Political Correctness isn't anything

Fox pundits and conservative radio hosts like to complain about "political correctness" and the chilling effect it has on discourse contemporary society. There's no such thing, when Mel Gibson's movie can open at number one a few months after his drunken anti-semitic rave, and Gibson himself can march onto the Leno show to a rousing ovation.

Btw, I'm not buying the line that drinking is an excuse. Drinking might make you say things you wished you hadn't, sure. But drinking cannot form a thought in your head by itself. Gibson's belief that "Jews causes all the wars in the world" comes from belief system. Tequila didn't put it there.

So no more whining about the evils of political correctness please.

My review of NBC's "Heroes" fall finale

has been up at TV Squad a couple days now.

And here's some thoughts by Michael Wentz and Wil Wheaton about the show. The general consensus being, and I concur,  Heroes doesn't annoy with endless meandering and dropped threads ala a certain ABC deserted island classic ...

Back from hiatus (and posting a review snip)

Well an unintended hiatus, anyway. I'll try to start posting more regularly again. Maybe I needed the break. The major news of note is that Flytrap #6 which includes my story "419 Memoirs" is now available to order! I think it's one of my best efforts, not that that's always a great sign.

Reviewer E. Sedia at Tangent was very kind. Here's what she said about the story:

Michael Canfield's "419 Memoirs" makes a strong opening—seemingly disjointed sketches of people's lives in some unspecified but near future paint a complex, multiplayer picture of this future society. But just like the lives of our contemporaries, these future memoirs are funny and sad and poignant and a little pathetic, and the story is quite enjoyable because of that. The future is quite believable, in large part because the author creates neologisms that don't make one cringe, and the hints of new geopolitical divisions are plausible. All in all, a lovely story.

And she liked some of the other stories even more. So don't take my word for it, take hers, and order another great issue of Flytrap.