Spotify has arrived in the US! Twitter was all abuzz when the announcement came, and lots of my friends jumped on board as soon as […] Read More
Category: culture
There have been a couple of interesting developments in news media in recent weeks. The first development is the mostly symbolic vote by the House […] Read More
In my last post I attempted to list the things I found especially resonant last year in media, entertainment, art and journalism. I say “attempted” […] Read More
The latest highly-publicized, hotly-ridiculed move by my adopted city of San Francisco was to ban the Happy Meal. And so once again we have lobbed […] Read More
The ongoing BP / Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is a sickening object lesson in the evils of oil. Of course it’s just the latest in […] Read More
I was a good Bryn Athyn boy once. Many people reading this will have no idea what that means, but briefly, Bryn Athyn is a […] Read More
Things are ugly right now. After the healthcare bill passed, we all heard how a few so-called tea baggers hurled racial slurs and other insults […] Read More
I feel like the media constantly bombards us with two completely opposite visions of the future: In future #1 I can talk to my home […] Read More
Today I walked down to Cafe Dolci to grab a banh mi (I always order a combo of grilled pork and paté incidentally), and there […] Read More