Americana
Privacy 2.0
I’m in a minor state of shock after discovering a website maintained by the St. Petersburg Times, for they have managed to turn crime into a glossy web 2.0 application — their succinct, concise, data-intensive packaging of criminal mug shots is simply devastating. Devastating because it manages to commoditize something that, to me, is an […]
Googling my way to California
I don’t want to speak out of place, or much too soon, but let’s just say that someday I might move to California. I am still kind of cold to the concept of Californiana, as I call it — to me, California is the blonde beauty that everyone else picks, while I was always […]
Economizing is the new frivolity!
I have had a hard time “going lean” as an adult. Part of that stems from the fact that, from the age of 18 on, I was making decent money relative to my age — my first job in 2000 made $12.50 an hour, and it only went up from there, at regular intervals. […]
Somebody check the woofers!
We gotta real hot mic here!
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I would argue that this is the height of the “second golden era” of Saturday Night Live. I know every last one of these songs, too. Best moments: the neigh in “The Devil Came Down From Georgia”, and the way Bobbi sings “black hole sign-ign, won’t you come…”
Pennsylhoma, or Oklavania
I decided that this place needs a name other than the Arbuckles, or South Central Oklahoma. Clearly this state wasn’t just settled by a bunch of too-soon hicks looking for Indian land to call their white bread own, as the town names signify. When one travels southward, you encounter Paoli, Wynnewood and Ardmore, […]
Gloomy (sunny) sunday in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, a place I have never visited as an adult until yesterday, was always just a placeholder in my mind — where my great aunts live(d), a prairie town eager to be a metropolis, an awkward entity in a number of ways (a city located in a state where cities are despised as saltmills […]
Terms of endearment for Houston
I can’t be mad at Houston, for I don’t think most people consider how liberally its name has been affixed to what might be “Elsewhere” in other states or countries. After all, if other cities in the US had developed with such limitless extra-territorial jurisdiction as Houston had, then we would see a Miami […]