Profound Thoughts
Seeking The Real
From Neal Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was the Command Line:
I was in Disney World recently, specifically the part of it called the Magic Kingdom, walking up Main Street USA. This is a perfect gingerbready Victorian small town that culminates in a Disney castle. It was very crowded; we shuffled rather than walked. Directly in front [...]
Hey Mikey
It’s hard to believe but after a 19 year run on WFAN, the Mike and the Mad Dog show is no more.
If you are from Long Island and of a certain age (*cough*), you spent your morning in traffic listening to Stern and your afternoon sitting on the Northern State listening to Mike and the [...]
Blogger Deported From China
Fellow NYer Noel Hidalgo was deported from China for filming a protest held by Students for a Free Tibet, in Tiananmen Square.
Coverage here and in Nate Westheimer’s blog.
Whatever you think of the propriety of holding protests in foreign countries during the Olympics, it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that if we’re ever going to [...]
The Mighty, Fallen
I’m sitting in a half empty theater watching The Clone Wars with my kids.
Put a fork in it folks, it’s dead.
The House That Ruth Built
Global brands are funny things. You can go halfway around the world and see some kid in some backwater town wearing a Yankees jersey sipping from a Coke bottle. It happened to me ten years ago in some tiny coastal town in the south of France. The kid didn’t speak a word of English but [...]
