I wrote something way serious but I opted instead to write something odd and maybe slightly dumb and scrapped the serious thing. Farewell, serious thing! So instead. Long about 1991 Newsweek ran a small piece about a scene in Thelma and Louise that lasts, I don’t know, certainly under fifteen seconds. In this scene, Thelma [...]
Archive for the ‘Media’ category
Sorry, late entry
Nice idea: 10 inspired book-and-album pairings here. Some are pretty clever, but ten wasn’t enough. And I don’t really need all the extra text (except for those books I wasn’t familiar with). Anyway, the list made me think that y’all could think of even more satisfying pairings. Here are a few of my own offerings [...]
The Bieber Fieber
Oh, yeah. We’ve totally got it. Yes, we went and saw the movie (Never Say Never). Yes, it’s because we have a six year old. OK, fine. That’s a lie. Our kid is really not that into Justin Bieber. But it seemed like a fun way to pass a couple hours on a Sunday. And [...]
You get to color this one in yourself
To start off, a provocative post about the media by John Emerson: Everyone talks about the media, but no one has been able to do anything about it. I share the common opinion that the disaster of contemporary American politics is in large part the result of the corruption and dishonesty of the media, and [...]
Tuesday videos: What’s this Internet thing?
For your viewing pleasure today: A 1994 clip of the hosts of the Today Show, completely flummoxed upon encountering an email address. Please note especially Katie Couric’s classic hairdo and Bryant Gumbel’s infuriating arrogance. A 1978 clip of Phil Donahue, that silver lion, interviewing a puckish Ayn Rand. Be sure to watch long enough to [...]
Mixmas 2010 – the embarrassing version
If you’re keeping up here, you might be aware that there are two parts to this year’s Fawcett/Honeycups mixmas. Part one, released last week, was an expansive showcase of our unassailable impeccably exquisitely awesome taste. Part two is quite the opposite. Here we open up and let you see the underside. No pretense. No holding [...]
Punctuating a text.
“The medium is the message!” “Form is content.” “Fuck off…” “No” When I first started writing for this blog close to five years ago, I barely texted. It was a pain in the ass. The iPhone hadn’t been invented. But today, I text 10 times more than I talk on the phone or email. In [...]
YouTube time machine
Remember the Wayback Machine ? The machine that took Mr. Peabody and Sherman back to whatever year they dialed, so they could bring a magnificent history lesson to cartoon-watching children? This was the Wayback Machine of my youth, a fantabulous fake time-travel mechanism. Decades later, after the commercial Internet had been around a few years, [...]
Song of the summer
For several years running there has been, by common consent among friends, an official/unofficial, sometimes disputed, song of the summer. After an extended email conversation recently with a beloved former contributor (he who shall not be named), I decided to collect a few nominations. Past songs of the summer have been big and epic with [...]
500 million friends and counting
I hate Facebook. But I can’t stop looking at it, either. I hate it because it’s essentially a giant tool for collecting information about you under the guise of “fun” applications that cause you to reveal much more about yourself than you normally would to a company. I hate it because it causes you to [...]
