Every once in a while I think — usually while calling 5 minutes before I get home to say I’m 5 minutes away from home — how odd it is that in the last century I didn’t own a cell phone.
Aside from email, which I didn’t have until the fall of 1994, it’s probably the [...]
After I moved to Los Angeles last spring, I soon learned that people don’t communicate here quite like they do in Washington D.C. I’m not talking about think-tank dissertations, multi-footnote policy papers or the monotone dronings of C-Span speeches. I’m talking about text messages.
In D.C., people picked up the phone and called each other. Here, [...]
Ogged was complaining about the overabundance of “twee, oversaturated photoshopped” photos. Coincidentally, I had just installed the newest version of iPhoto and wanted to try out its enhanced tweeification techniques.
I found this photo from one of this summer’s weddings: the groom making a toast to the bride on a dock in Lake Tahoe. You may [...]
Linda Thompson, Versatile Heart (Rounder, 2007)
The death knell of the “album” is ringing out all over the land. With sales drastically plummeting, the long player (digital or analog) is going the way of the 78 rpm. Occasionally, though, a dying form will cough up a gem as it heads to extinction. [...]
In NYC, I don’t see them all that often. Or I don’t notice them. I’m sure they are there. But in LA, they come upon you at all hours of the day or night. Night is the scariest – and most exciting – as they chase a speeding car or speeding suspect hot-stepping through the [...]