I don’t have the patience to type out the 3 page passage in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest about Fond du Lac’s No Coat tongue scrapers. The short version is that the commercials made for this product(something to clean your tongue.) are so effective and so powerful that they destroy the entire television industry. [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Mitchell and Webb Tie into Infinite Jest
13-Aug-08Charmless Man, by Blur
13-Aug-08Why do I love this video? The band pops up again and again in the charmless man’s path. Thusly representing the ever present, inescapable reality of the charmless man’s douchitude.
I said douchitude. heh.
Don’t Mess With Gereint…
12-Aug-08I’ve been a little obsessed on and off, for years, with a detail from the story Branwen Daughter of Llyr, of the Mabinogion. In this story, there is a description of a caldron that, when dead warriors were thrown in, they’d come back to life the next day, ready to fight, but unable to speak.
So, [...]
MY WIFE
10-Aug-08Shes the bomb.jpg, originally uploaded by chris_mckenna.
Mis En Scene. What does the way I have set the stage say about my wife?
Green Screen + Layering = Pop Stars!
09-Aug-083 videos. 1 thing in common. Well, besides being in heavy rotation at Revival, Pulsations, Phoenix, Shadows…or whatever other dumb dance club I might have visited in the late 80s/ early 90s. They all feature the green screen and lots of pointless layering. I’ll bet they costed coin to produce.
The Soup [...]
Lost in the Apothecary
07-Aug-08I’m not sure if it was watching the Joe Strummer doc The Future is Unwritten, or that time I heard E=MC squared in a Trader Joe’s last winter that put Mick Jones back into my rotation, but I’ve been stuck on Big Audio Dynamite’s song The Medicine Show lately. (sidenote:For whatever reason, I can’t embed [...]
Hospital Play
06-Aug-08Graham and Christian 2, originally uploaded by chris_mckenna.
S’s niece had minor surgery this morning. We visited tonight. Graham got to chase his second cousin all over the pediatrics ward.
NINJAS!
04-Aug-08This one takes me back. A coworker pointed out that Hulu.com is now hosting movies. They have frickin ENTER THE NINJA up there. I watched that in my friend Johnny C’s basement in like 6th? maybe 7th grade? The VCR we watched it on had one of those spring loaded containers on top. The control [...]
What Would Donald Draper Do?
04-Aug-08Next month, we are going cable free. I will admit here and now that I will not enjoy waiting until the Mad Men DVDs become available at the library to finish watching the season. Meanwhile, someone has begun answering the question What would Donald Draper Do?
Another One Goes By
03-Aug-08Did the CyleSports circuit race in Doylestown, PA today. Great course, location and event.
Result wise, it was about the same as the rest of season. That is: a mid to back of the pack finish. I didn’t hang around to see the exact placing.
What went well: I went to the front right away and did some [...]