February 2011
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January 2011
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Cultural Common Ground Gets Harder To Come By :... →
Another in the unending series of pieces on how we have no shared culture any more because we don’t all watch “The Cosby Show” on Thursday nights. Seriously:
What makes us laugh on TV isn’t as broad-based as it once was. At its peak in the mid-1980s, The Cosby Show had 30 million viewers. Today’s top-rated sitcom, Two and a Half Men, gets more like 15 million. Since...
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Former LA Gov. Edwin Edwards released from prison... →
Free Edwin! The Cajun Prince rides (semi-)free again!
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“Un ex empleado de WikiLeaks amenaza con crear un portal rival y resta por verse...”
– Me in Spanish! ¿La primera guerra cibernética?, Diario El Día, La Plata, Argentina
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Superheated Rhetoric in the Social Media World |... →
Me on the radio a few minutes ago. (Audio to come at that link.)
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Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Dismemberment Plan:... →
This came out in 1999, but to me, Emergency & I is all about summer 2000: leaving my first job, moving to Dallas, driving around town in a rental car looking for an apartment and putting “Memory Machine” on repeat. Travis Morrison was my hero. Thrilled to be seeing them again in a couple weeks, and happy this got a 10.0.
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“Coupland, who has written at length on and for the Internet, does not belabor...”
– NYT’s David Carr, reviewing Douglas Coupland’s new bio of Marshall McLuhan. “For the Internet” sounds like it’s a machine to be fed, no?