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 not… Continue reading The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal
Month: July 2010
Hausu: Watch At Your Own Peril
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.”
Listen & Learn: Radiohead’s Creep by Vega Choir
Radiohead’s “Creep,” performed by the Vega Choir of Sweden, has been burning up the Internet like a match on a gasoline-soaked haystack. Hit Play and scroll down this page and find out what’s going on with Vega Choir’s “Creep.” What is “Creep”? “Creep” is a song by English band Radiohead that was released in 1992.… Continue reading Listen & Learn: Radiohead’s Creep by Vega Choir
Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940
What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb? While dangerously close to yes men, the term yestermen works for me. He’s the man who saves the woman from falling off of Mt. Rushmore–all without taking off his tie. The polar opposite would… Continue reading Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940
Realtor or REALTOR®? Either Way, Royal Bullshit
I have long been suspicious of the word Realtor, Realtor®, REALTOR®, or whatever it is. It began years ago when I noticed that the National Association of Realtors stressed that they were called the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and that their members were obviously called…REALTORS® That’s right. All caps and with the registered trademark symbol.… Continue reading Realtor or REALTOR®? Either Way, Royal Bullshit