The second episode of a new series on the occult side of New York City. This is an interview with Mitch Horowitz—I've noticed some of the buildings he mentions, walking around Midtown.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 7, 2011
I love the documentarian Adam Curtis, so I was delighted to find this exquisite parody of his work. Enjoy.
Continue reading...Sunday, June 5, 2011
This video is tremendously funny, even if you don’t live in Santa Monica.
Continue reading...Friday, June 3, 2011
Okay, so right off the bat know: they didn’t talk about aliens. Which was a shame, because the crowd at the Santa Monica Public Library was Ready for Contact. They were, in fact, aching for it, them and their kids, and got kinda belligerent when it didn’t happen. (After all, 64 years is a long [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 17, 2011
For the price of a pack of Bubble Yum, you could own my parody of "Heaven Is For Real."
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The prayers of generations of religious poultry have finally been answered. Chinatown Fair, the video game arcade on Mott St. which boasted the semi-famous “Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken”–by the way, you don’t wanna know how they made it “play” the game–is now closed. This website has posted a nice appreciation, recommended for all fans of old New [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 16, 2011
This morning, Boingboing.com alerted me to an interesting development: a tongue-in-cheek parody of a children’s book called Go the Fuck To Sleep has reached #1 on Amazon.com, before it’s even been published. Apparently pirated PDFs are circulating, and people are preordering it like it’s crack. The publisher has been smart enough to max out the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 3, 2011
I love Santa Monica so, so much. Here’s a lovely little documentary about one of the city’s neighborhoods, Ocean Park. (It’s about 20 blocks south of where I live.) BTW, anybody who tears down an amusement park or a pleasure pier should be shot. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 25, 2011
“I believe in some sort of strange fashion that the presence of the atom bomb might almost be forcing a level of human development that wouldn’t have occurred without the presence of the atom bomb. Maybe this degree of terror will force changes in human attitudes that could not have occurred without the presence of [...]
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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