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Category Archives: Action Figure Sold Separately
I, Replicant
I failed the Voight-Kampff test. Albeit, it was an online version of the “empathy exam” meant to separate the men from the machines as seen in Blade Runner, so it’s likely I’m the victim of some order of digital chicanery. Even though the test couldn’t monitor my “blush response” and “eye movement” as [...]
Also posted in Essays Tagged 2001, blade runner, carlo collodi, chess, CYC, deep blue, do androids dream of electric sleep, frankenstien, game over, hal, john henry, johnny 5, kasparov, mary shelley, Orwell, philip k. Dick, pinocchio, roy batty, scott bukatman, sean young, Slavoj Zizek, tyrell, vikram jayanti, voight-kampff Leave a comment
How to Avoid Hooking up at the Company Holiday Party
Ah, the proverbial company holiday party—where one must suffer the indignity of white elephant gifts, off-brand booze and mistletoe hanging over one’s head like the sword of Damocles. Spending an obligatory evening with the water cooler crowd feigning holiday cheer is trying enough, so why up the ante by waking up next to one of [...]
Wine, the Original Social Networking
Social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook are the rage for those plugged into online community experience – but wine was and remains the preferred social networking experience for the unplugged, or at least the uncorked, set.
Prior to modern winery practices (and the public health code), making wine was a socially-driven endeavor in which [...]
Also posted in Essays, Wine Tagged facebook, myspace, orson welles, paul masson, underage drinking, Wine Leave a comment
1977 Redux
This year marks the 30th anniversaries of the films Star Wars and Annie Hall, both cultural milestones in their right, which affected at least one member of a certain generation.
Once upon a time in a galaxy, far, far, away – 1977 specifically – girls wore jeans that had to be zipped with pliers and undulated [...]
Also posted in Fiction Tagged 1977, Annie Hall, golden gate bridge, star wars, Woody Allen Leave a comment
Atomic Hangover (Or, How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb)
I can remember when I first started obsessing about the bomb. It was Nov. 21, 1983. The day after The Day After. The fulcrum of the so-called X-Generation, those of us who experienced puberty in the ’80s under the tenure of President Reagan had inherited the Cold War in full bloom, like an atomic hangover. [...]
L.A. Confidential
Everywhere in the world a green light means “go.” That is, everywhere except Hollywood, where a green light means “Take a number, have a seat, the executives will see you shortly. After Eternity.”
Such temporal phenomena permeate every aspect of the entertainment business. Given the molasses movement of time on film sets, production personnel are often [...]
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Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood
In honor of “Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus” author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s August 30th birthday, below is the first of a handful of Frankenstein-themed miscellanea soon to appear in this blog. It may be worth noting that Shelley would have been 208. Her novel, incidentally, is 189, which means she wrote it at the tender [...]
The Doctor is Out: Hunter S. Thompson
“True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he’s writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three,” said Hunter S. Thompson of the [...]
Also posted in Essays, Personalities Tagged gonzo, hunter s. thompson, Woody Creek Tavern Leave a comment
Morphic Resonance
Good morning, Class — Today’s vocabulary lesson comes from biologist Rupert Sheldrake, author of “The Sense of Being Stared At.” Ready?
“Morphic resonance.” Say it together. Morphic resonance: A phenomenon wherein collective memories are transmitted and shared between members of a species as if telepathically, which results in disparate entities, completely autonomous of each other, developing [...]
Wet Dreams: The History of the Water Bed