Category Archives: General Pop Culture

Not Done in the Movies Yet

By hugh | Published: May 24, 2009

You’ve heard of waitress and bartender tipping, cow tipping, junkie tipping, and drunkie tipping. How about parking lot tipping? If the new Transformers movie doesn’t do it, it’s only a matter of time.

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Spam Attack

By hugh | Published: May 22, 2009

One of my posts was getting spammed 50 times a day in the comments and there was nothing on it I could see that would warrant such an attack, not even a dirty innuendo or a cuss word. I changed the name of the post a bit and removed some of the links and tags [...]

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Stuck in the Marble Cemetary

By hugh | Published: May 14, 2009

Got stuck in this graveyard for an hour because I dropped my camera through the fence. I played rochambeau with the ghosts. Before this, I was hanging out with Cal and Lisa and I saw Trevor Dunn perform at The Stone and talked with Buzz from Melvins for a bit.

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Spieling Around a Dry Fountain; Alice Tully Hall

By hugh | Published: May 12, 2009

At Lincoln Center yesterday, there was a graduation ceremony for Juilliard students. I found it odd they couldn’t turn the fountain on as part of the festivities — all those snapshots of parents and new graduates in their fine clothes and lint-free graduation gowns made lacklustre by some cost-cutting bureaucrat. The refurbishing of Alice Tully [...]

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1918 Was 91 Years Ago

By hugh | Published: April 30, 2009

An epidemiologist I know recommended reading up on the 1918 epidemic. While it is a lesson in underreaction, it’s also a lesson in overreaction. Egypt is killing pigs to stop it. In discussing whether it’s better to overreact or underreact, or react just perfectly, please be informed. Wingnuts who say there’s no such thing as [...]

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Terrible Magazine Selection

By hugh | Published: April 12, 2009

I don’t know who the manager of this Bank of America is, but he/she is not a go-getter. Do not trust this person to ever go the extra mile. In Mad Men, the young Don is taught the symbol that tags a house with a “dishonest man.” I say everybody start tagging places the way [...]

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Google Sees Everything; Lawyers Pounce

By hugh | Published: March 31, 2009

Google caught my neighbors out and about wearing shorts! I thought I’d seen it all but then I didn’t have Google in mind. The Sun is there. To be fair, Google probably photomaps urban streets once a year at most and I’m not sure it will hold up in court.

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Playing the Markets with Fraction Man

By hugh | Published: September 17, 2008

Fraction Man Aims for the Fences Like Duncan, I’m not an economist or a financial analyst but it is useful for people like us to think about these things in metaphors and he made a ton of sense today: The entire financial system is practically collapsing and they’re [CNBC business pundits] lamenting the possibility of [...]

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A Supposedly Good Book I’ll Finish Someday

By hugh | Published: September 17, 2008

Walk this way I’m pretty sad David Foster Wallace is dead. I first became aware of his writing when “Shipping Out” was published in Harper’s in the mid 90s (later the lead essay in “A Supposedly Fun Thing…”). Besides giving me reason to never go on a cruise ship, he helped me be comfortable with [...]

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On Reality-Based Fantasies

By hugh | Published: September 11, 2008

Basement sunflowers I had lunch in the restaurant above this basement karaoke bar but it was pretty unremarkable. Empty restaurants are even more creepy when the staff wanders around doing nothing looking sad. Maybe I’ll go back for karaoke and do my Jim Morrison/Ian Curtis. My pal Foot Foot was telling me about a reality [...]

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Throwing a Party? Fascist!

By hugh | Published: July 25, 2008

Pandagon and Digby confront the growing meme that Obama and his fans represent a rising onslaught of American fascism. We have to recognize this and understand it. There is a very concerted and completely ahistorical effort to make “fascism” synonymous with “popularity.” As Jesse Taylor notes: On the one hand, it’s an awful abuse of [...]

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Robots and Sunglasses

By admin | Published: July 23, 2008

In which I shamelessly post in the style of This Recording…. I was watching Westworld (1973) a few weeks ago and a couple of images at the beginning of the movie struck me. Obviously, they’re the same guy/robot and the implication is that they’re both robot pilots guiding the unsuspecting tourists to their doom at [...]

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