Found today in Boing Boing! In 1906, a farmers J.W. and E.C. Fawkes formed the Aerial Trolley Company Co., Inc. and put a monorail-like trolley in their Burbank farm. Is this real-life steampunk? I believe so. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the utter coolness of even the company name, Aerial Trolley...
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The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, built in 1967, is famous as one of the first–if not the first–example of a large atrium hotel. The inside of this 22 story is scooped out, with rooms facing each other and public spaces below. Built by John Portman, the Hyatt Regency–originally Regency Hyatt House–is an architecturally significant building...
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Reading the new paywalled New York Times today, I saw an article, pictured above, about violence in the Ivory Coast. That word, intercommunal, leapt out at me. Wha? Huh? The dictionary just says the predicable–”that which exists between communities.” Well, yeah. Duh. But what is it really? My guess is that this is the...
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This picture came up today in BoingBoing.net, via a Tumblr post. What struck me, and several of the commenters, wasn’t so much the monkey aspect but the Woman On The Right. She is an anachronism. She looks like someone you might meet on the street today. But she probably did not adhere to beauty...
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Ever notice there is a class of male actors who seem so gay, but really aren’t? Hugh Jackman John Hurt Jonathan Harris, from Lost in Space Tony Randall The Will and Grace guy Paul Shaffer Dom De Luise Jude Law David Spade Gene Kelly Henry Gibson Share and Enjoy: Print this article! Digg Google...
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This last June, after Sebastian Horsley died in Soho at the age of 47 from a heroin overdose, I began thinking about this genre of rich wastrel louches. We in the white, waking world are fascinated by stories of Edies and Huntington Hartfords who have it all and waste it all. Of Horsley, The...
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Don’t read this article. You think it’s going to be about Candwich, the “sandwich in a can” that has been ripping up the Internet tubes with memes-of-fire? More so, it’s an exploration of the dark side of language and how a certain word has lobotomized all of us consumers: Product. Candwich is a sandwich...
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