I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion’s AV Club is that The Scar isn’t mentioned at all. Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like “stunning”...
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Being somewhat in the market for a new car and being somewhat of a guy who is getting (snort!) older, I figured the first order of business was to determine which cars I should not buy. That compelled me to reflect on the class of cars that I call Cantankerous Old Bastard Cars. First,...
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The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best thing about Emily Shur’s photo essay is its title: Nature Calls. But come on, I’ve got this one beat. For years, my parents in Medford, Oregon have had a church down the...
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I cannot get this out of my head. I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did...
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The diplomatic meeting is of no consequence. It’s just a minor blip on the radar of classified documents published by Wikileaks. On December 17, 1975, in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Abdelaziz Bouteflika Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria. As published in a secret memorandum, the first part of the exchange...
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By now, the Wieden & Kennedy ad campaign for Old Spice, featuring Isaiah Mustafa, is a thing of legend. Even Advertising Age, not prone to handing out cheap praise, says that they have seen nothing like The Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign. Oh, and it’s over, too. Really? You didn’t even know...
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Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.” Share and Enjoy: Print this article! Digg Google Bookmarks StumbleUpon Sphinn del.icio.us Facebook Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz Technorati
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