In December of 1900, the Ladies’ Home Journal published an article titled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” by one John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. Though Mr. Watkins did not predict the fact that during the century in question, fine names such as “Elfreth” would be tragically phased out, he did in fact manage [...]
Resolved: To take a multivitamin every day, rather than buying those big bottles of them and forgetting to take them until they’re out of date.
Resolved: To get Lasik. Someday.
Resolved: To play my guitar more before the dust swallows it completely and it’s just a giant faux termite hill in the corner of my living [...]
When Walter Benjamin wrote in 1938 that one may understand the problems associated with a society through a reading of its consumer goods, even his best friend and fellow Frankfurt School thinker, Teddy Adorno, thought that he was taking the whole Marxism thing a little too far.
When Herbert Marcuse wrote in 1964 that advanced industrial [...]
A walking tour through old Santa Monica:
It is a lovely Fall day – the skies are clear, and it’s warm as summer.
I work in a converted art gallery in the industrial area of this small beach town.
I grew up here, but it doesn’t look or feel the way it did in the 70s.
This [...]
Labor Day weekend in San Francisco is always fairly quiet because all the cool kids have packed their fur-covered beach cruisers, art projects and drug collections into their gas guzzling SUV’s with “No Blood For Oil!” bumper stickers and caravaned over to Black Rock Desert, Nevada, for the annual non-conformist, anti-capitalist, pro-anarchist, pro-nudity, post-modern, pre-Armageddon [...]