Hidden Cell Phone Towers? Try To Beat This One.
The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best […]
The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal
I cannot get this out of my head. I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
American Suburbs As Cultural Trope: Any Juice Left?
Recently, I read an Associated Press assessment of how the American suburbs are no longer “your father’s suburbs of the 1950s and […]
“Vibrant” Means “Squalid”: Celebrating 7 Years of Vibrancy
Vibrant! Nothing wrong with vibrancy, is there? Actually, there is trouble in River City and it is vibrancy. In 2010, when I […]
Merchant Ivory-Speak
My son Lucas, when he was 2 1/2 years old, began speaking like an actor in a Merchant Ivory movie. “Merchant Ivory” […]
“The Year 2000”: Lost Forever
Is the phrase “the year 2000” or, more widely, “the year 20XX,” lost to history forever? I believe it is–except preserved in […]