Cities & Signs

Telebossa, live at HBC

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Telebossa, live at HBC

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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:56:00 -0400

"Hard drive died - back tomorrow!"

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:10:25 -0400

“Hard drive died - back tomorrow!”

Audio

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Kate Bush - “The Big Sky”

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

Kate Bush - “The Big Sky”

"At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any..."

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

“At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of Friends is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than ninety-nine percent of the poetry or drama or fiction or history ever published. Think of that. Of course yes, Tolstoy and of course yes Keats and blah blah and yes indeed of course yes. But we’re living in an age that has a tremendous richness of invention. And some of the most inventive people get no recognition at all. They get tons of money but no recognition as artists. Which is probably much healthier for them and better for their art.”

- Nicholson Baker (The Anthologist, 2009)

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Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0400

WTF with Marc Maron - “Interview with the Onion’s...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:01:05 -0400

WTF with Marc Maron - “Interview with the Onion’s Todd Hanson”

Video

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

Audio

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Photo

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:06:05 -0400

Louis C.K. - clip from Cinema Classics (NYC, 2004)

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:05 -0400

Louis C.K. - clip from Cinema Classics (NYC, 2004)

Health - “Heaven”

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:01:05 -0400

Health - “Heaven”

Spy Magazine - “The Irony Epidemic” (March 1989)

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:00:05 -0400

Spy Magazine - “The Irony Epidemic” (March 1989)

Mr. Show - “House of the Future”

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:01:06 -0400

Mr. Show - “House of the Future”

Comics :: Important Comics

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

Comics :: Important Comics:

A Tribe Called Quest - “Award Tour”

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:00:06 -0400

A Tribe Called Quest - “Award Tour”

"No matter where or how one lives, or by what creed, it is Morse, not Darwin, who dictates how..."

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:00 -0400

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No matter where or how one lives, or by what creed, it is Morse, not Darwin, who dictates how one’s affairs must be managed and how one’s consciousness must be directed. This fact is a clear tribute not to Morse himself but to what Christine Nystrom has called the “invisible metaphysics” of technology. For there is this difference between Darwin and Morse: Darwin offered us ideas embodied in language. His ideas are explicit, arguable, and refutable. Indeed, they have been publicly debated since the 1860s in lecture halls, classrooms, and even courtrooms. But Morse offered us ideas embodied in a technology, which is to say, they were hidden from view and therefore never argued. Morse’s ideas were, in a sense, irrefutable, because no one knew that electric communication implied any ideas. As is usually the case with communication technology, people assumed that the telegraph was a neutral conveyance, that it was partial to no world-view of its own. The only questions that were asked of Morse concerned whether or not the machine would work, how far its range, how expensive its development.

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. [Henry David] Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, “But what do they have to say to each other?” In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information - from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.

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- Neil Postman (from The Disappearance of Childhood, 1982)

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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:01:06 -0400