Category: Pop Culture
Poetry from Row 11A on US Airways #730
Memory is not a Document (Ronald Reagan Lives on in our hearts and envelopes)
Cognitive Dissonance Moment of the Day
Starbucks Delocator
Cops!
Is Bob the Builder Gay?
I’m not dead
Irregular around the Margins
I've been a devoted follower of The Sopranos ever since I borrowed the entire first and second seasons on VHS from a friend, back in 2000. I've managed to see every episode since, even without having HBO, by begging, borrowing, and sometimes just showing up unannounced, uninvited at the right place at the right time.… Continue reading Irregular around the Margins
The World Trade Center (from the archives)
Lately I've been reading up on the history of the World Trade Center. It's easy to forget, in this post-9/11 world, that for most of their life the Twin Towers were reviled. One of the most prominent critics was Wolf Von Eckardt, the Washington Post's eminent architectural critic. Upon seeing Minoru Yamasaki's model for the… Continue reading The World Trade Center (from the archives)
Tracking the Fugitives
The 21st century will be the century of the fugitive. Not because fugitives are proliferating, but because they are disappearing. And not disappearing in the way that fugitives like to disappear, but disappearing because they simply won't exist. Technology won't allow it. In the near future fugitives will occupy the same place in our collective… Continue reading Tracking the Fugitives
Closer to Reagan
Today I discovered that I am two people away from knowing Jodie Foster, which, technically, because of John Hinckley, Jr., puts me ever closer to Ronald Reagan. A friend in Philadelphia studied for a time under John Douglas, the former FBI profiler who was a consultant for Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs. Douglas gave… Continue reading Closer to Reagan
In LA this week
In LA this week I met a former animator for Disney who now designs murals and sculptures for the Disney Stores. Right now he's working on a Goofy sculpture for the Disney Store in Paris. He told me that every detail of the three-dimensional Goofy---the length of the ears, the diameter of the eyeballs, the… Continue reading In LA this week
Today in LA
Today in LA I talked to a city engineer. The palm trees here, he says they're infested with rats. Up in the dead fronds the rats build nests and at night you can see silhouettes scurrying up and down the trunks. So there on Rodeo Drive, high up above the shoppers and tourists and stars,… Continue reading Today in LA
The Other Day
The other day: from my hotel in Rosslyn, Virginia, there is a spectacular view of Washington, DC. It's just across the river. Nothing to do in Rosslyn itself though, so I watch some television. The local NBC affiliate closes the 11 o'clock news with a feature on Anthony Edwards, whose last appearance on ER was… Continue reading The Other Day