Cultural Ephemera
Direct connection
While the previous video was more of an internal self-promotion video for WFAA in Dallas, this video was a major ad campaign used during junctions and station breaks for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV. It is simply stunning — these promos have a futuristic, whimsical, avant-garde tenor paired with a bit of psychedelia. It might be […]
Back when leotards told the story
Thanks to my inimitable friend Joseph, who has a penchant for finding all the weirdest crap that youtube has to offer, I have now watched this 1980 WFAA-TV (Dallas/Fort Worth) promo video eleventy times.
It is nuts how in 1980, mustachioed men in leotards were simply “court jesters” that told the story of TV ratings success, and […]
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 […]
Silvio Berlusconi has been running Italy since the 80’s!
Look at this advertisement. “We dedicate the new Casio FX-750P pocket computer to Silvio Berlusconi.” It would be one thing (although a weird thing nevertheless) to dedicate a computer to him if he had been president in the 80’s, but he was merely a media tycoon. I guess it would be like […]
Goodbye, humorous LinkedIn profile!
Since my wallet has been telling me it’s time to get very, very serious about looking for a job, I am having to change my LinkedIn profile. Sure, people change their LinkedIn profile all the time, you might think, but mine was a postmodern humorous statement — a living joke, if you will.
My interests:
beating stagflation, […]
The suburb of failed obscure European imports
Being unemployed means that you pay attention to useless nothingness while avoiding the actual task at hand, i.e. finding a job. So here I was, randomly Google Mapping the city of San Antonio, a place I don’t particularly care for, when I discovered a subdivision who must have had a fairly massochistic master developer. […]
Geneaology of a running gag
I might be the only non-Australian (or one in a million!) who has seen enough Australian TV footage to actually have gotten the reference while never having “been there”, so to speak. It’s still totally god damned hilarious, even if you don’t have the full frame of reference.
SBS, by the way, is something akin […]
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 […]
Look Around Yog
From Look Around You
Series 2, Episode: Computers
‘Twas A Merry Morn In Malta!