Yesterday morning began with one of the more surreal dreams I’ve had in a while. Specifically, that someone was hosting their wedding reception in my living room. (Which is, I can assure you, large enough to comfortably hold maybe six people.) This was taking place at roughly 6:30 in the morning. And whoever was holding …
Saw Idiocracy last week. I find myself thinking it would make a fine double bill with WALL-E: each depicts a future in which aspects of modern culture have spun out of control, leading to mammoth piles of garbage, an unholy fusion of big business with government, and an agriculturally barren landscape. One’s a cult classic, …
February 24, 2009 – 12:38 pm
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By Tobias
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Posted in Books, Film, Live, People, Politics, Rocket Fuel, SXSW2008, Thursday, Uncategorized
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Tagged Idiocracy, media, publishing, Wall-E
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We had the first snowfall of any significance in Brooklyn late last week. I spent most of the latter part of last week as well as this weekend holed up in my apartmen, under the weather and trying to wrap up a few long-term projects before heading back to the ancestral home in central Jersey …
In which the Washington Square News interviews the esteemed Heather Muse on the culture of celebrity gossip.
Watching good friends get married in a lakefront town that I’d (oddly enough) gotten lost in during a road trip to Montreal five years before. Beautiful scenery and amazing people; can’t really argue with that as as way to spend a weekend.
….to say congrats to two fine people in the city of Portland.