Notes
New Jersey Voter For Obama
For the first time that I can remember, as a New Jersey voter, I will be voting in a primary that actually has teeth. It used to be that Jersey held their primary sometime in June… months after the chosen one had been anointed. NOW, thanks to the wonders of Super Tuesday, I can [...]
Three hours of MTV from 1983
I absolutely HAVE to post this… because it’s Friday, and especially because watching this makes me feel good (fond, fond memories of childhood - Hello Mr. Proust, nice to see you again). This is three hours of classic MTV spread over two videos with Mr. Mark Goodman tying it all together. I spent [...]
Chris Messina interviews himself about DiSo
The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo.
This video, while a bit campy, is a great overview of what I think is one of the most interesting and important projects dealing with identity and portability in the social network space. For more information and to get involved please head over to the DiSo project [...]
Print media as offline lust object
Ever since The New York Times took down its paywall and started giving away it’s news for free there has been a deathwatch on a number of other paywalls constructed by old school publishers. For the most part I can totally understand the logic behind freeing up content (more traffic, more advertising dollars). With [...]
27 Jennifers - Old Tune New Record
I’ve been waiting to for this record to drop for months now and it is set to release the day my contract with Verizon goes month to month… February 19. So it looks like I might be getting my self a new iPhone and christening it with Mike Doughty’s Golden Delicious. Just in [...]
In Defense of Food - A Way Forward
Last year I had the good fortune to be given (as a gift from mom) the absolutely eye opening book The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. This past week I blazed through his most recent book In Defense of Food which is to some extent an attempt to answer the dilemma posed in his [...]
Iron my shirts and swing the female vote
Could this display by apparently sexist young men really have been staged by Clinton supporters? Could the whole “change” thing - as empty as it may be - have pushed her into an “oh yeah” moment in which she realized that she is actually treading on historic ground herself? Could she be cleverly [...]
Maybe Obama can show us just how ugly we are
Let’s suppose that Barack Obama can ride this wave straight out of Iowa and into the general election. Imagine, if you will, the tone of that campaign… the tensions it will ignite… the ways it will expose the cultural, social and religious divisions that have been slowly pulling at the seams of the American [...]
Wicked Little Town
I should have posted this a while ago, but this is some video of my good friend William Mallory on guitar accompanying John Cameron Mitchell for the song Wicked Little Town from the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Performance prior to the December 7, 2007 screening in New York. Also: be sure [...]
Thoughts On Mobile Free Agency - Part 4
I wasn’t planning on doing any posting until after the new year, but this item caught my eye. It seems the timing of the release of an Android based Google phone perfectly coincides with my free agency ( if you don’t know what I’m talking about see the first three parts of this series). [...]
