Category Archives: Media

The Next Feminist Platform Revisited

By hugh | Published: January 7, 2009

Happy moms, happy babies…. Some friends on facebook commented on one of my earliest posts on this blog which dealt with orgasmic childbirth. Last week, ABC’s 20/20 finally ran their promised segment on it with a positive spin I’m happy to say. If you have any questions on waterbirthing etc, see Judith’s website. Her photos [...]

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World Focus on the World’s Bellybutton

By hugh | Published: October 28, 2008

Riding on the sidewalk but not for long In which I get wonky and talk about the media… How would an American nonprofit news program about “the world” be constructed? (or does 1010 WINS really think they’ve covered the world in 22 minutes?)

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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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Where’s My Doorknob Test?

By hugh | Published: August 4, 2008

The red foyer recalls a redder time. A co-worker has a classic piece of office equipment on his door. It says, “Doorknob Test. If this tag is laying on the ground, then you have no doorknob.” I hope to somehow adapt this technology to my TV during the election season.

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Bartering with Satan’s Lattes

By hugh | Published: July 30, 2008

The Longshortsmen of South Street Seaport The Bush administration has learned a creative accounting trick or two from The Smartest Guys in the Room™ [Enron]. Like Enron’s PR douchebags, we’ve got waterboys like Ben Stein and Phil Gramm telling us everything is fine. Recall that some of Enron’s shenanigans ultimately led to California’s rolling blackouts [...]

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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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Anchors Aweigh On That Magazine Cover

By admin | Published: July 16, 2008

Somehow the Peking appears to be sinking After hmm, 3 days of fallout from the New Yorker cover, Dowd today uses the opportunity to yet again call Obama an elitist for not having the required sense of humor to “get it.” Sure they could’ve reacted with a lighter touch but I’m mostly on the “what’s [...]

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Turn Your TV and Your Computer Off

By admin | Published: July 4, 2008

Bowling for basketball Josh weighs in the Golly Ralphie Show. The media talking heads are becoming such an embarrassment. They have no problem either making shit up or regurgitating whatever pap the campaigns dish out. (Obama’s is not quite innocent either.) They’ll call a five-point lead in a poll a “statistical dead heat”.  Sigh. Happy [...]

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Swans Are Dinosaurs Too

By admin | Published: July 1, 2008

Do “professionals” and “politicians” really think they can keep putting on this Golly Ralphie Show that’s supposed to be journalism and reason? Just give me folks with their heads screwed on straight and uh, necks that don’t make an “S” shape all the live long day.

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Standard Operating Procedure

By admin | Published: May 3, 2008

Looking up at Grand Central I used to take friends and tourists for walks up in the windows of Grand Central. Remember that? I was kind of surprised there were only about 25 people in attendance at a 7 pm showing of Errol Morris’s new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure the other day. Walking by some [...]

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