Enough is not enough anymore, and everything is ‘over’
Today, a singer-songwriter I like, Jay Brannan, had an outburst on his Facebook page: “when an item or article of clothing wears out or breaks, i want to replace it with EXACTLY the same thing. the...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Click
Do you even know what’s happening to your news? Media companies are tracking the hot terms that people are searching for from minute to minute, and when those terms come up on their computers, there’s...
View ArticleYou are being erased
Your biographer is screwed. You are leaving nearly nothing behind. While you pour your energies and thoughts into the machine sitting in front of you, you are leaving nearly nothing about you that your...
View ArticleSeven things Facebook and Google get wrong about you
Most of the major sites we use now purport to be able to "customize" what they show you based on what you've looked at before. But this worrying fascination is built on some logical lapses about who we...
View Article10 failed movies and TV shows redeemed by later success
At the time? Embarrassing. Now? Fun! Strange how a few years makes you see the joy that was intended.
View ArticleHatch Show Print in Nashville: iconic style, letter by letter [WATCH]
You may not know the name Hatch Show Print, but you know the style. Its block letters are visually synonymous with Nashville and country music history. I was lucky enough to be invited behind the...
View ArticleOmnisciencia
I have self-diagnosed myself with omnisciencia. It's the debilitating state that develops when you try to keep up with everything that's going on.
View ArticleWhy I’m Leaving Facebook—And the Reason May Surprise You
If you clicked on this because of that dumb teaser headline, that’s why I’m leaving Facebook. It’s not totally because the privacy concerns. Yes, they are annoying, particularly when the company keeps...
View ArticleRudolph Valentino Died 90 Years Ago Today (So the Woman in Black Returned)
As they have done for 89 years since, Rudolph Valentino's fans gathered at 12:10 pm in the mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to pay tribute—songs, praise, sermons about the eternal life of fame.
View ArticleAnthony Bourdain—My Lost Interview
One of the many destructive realities of working in a corporate-dominated economy, besides the political graft that’s dismantling democracy, is that corporations have no interest in memory. The one...
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