By Mark | December 15, 2016
Over the past 24 hours, since I last posted about the drama shaping up around the Electoral College, two significant things have happened. First, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig went public with the news that 20 Republican Electoral College voters had reached out to him to discuss the possibility of voting against Donald Trump. And, […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #HamiltonElectors, Alexander Hamilton, chess, conflict of interest, Contentious Elector, electoral college, electoral politics, extortion, faithless Electors, Kanye West, Lawrence Lessig, Presidential politics |
I guess it was just a matter of time before British artists would turn to The Prisoner for inspiration and revive the dreaded rover. The incredible and terrifying piece, which, in the video above, is seen following people through a London subway station, recording and playing back their conversations, is the work of the Royal […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged ambient sound, Arduino, art projects, domestic spying, echo of human activity, England, floating black sphere, Francesco Tacchini, helium, Julinka Ebhardt, privacy, rovers, Royal College of Art, Will Yates-Johnson |
By Mark | September 17, 2013
Two things happened this week that prompted me to write this post. The world celebrated what would have been Roald Dahl’s 97th birthday, and, a day or two later, my friends Murph and Cara welcomed two beautiful little babies into the world. So, as Linette set off in one direction this evening, to arrange for […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Arnold Lobel, Billy Wilder, books, Cara Talaska, children's literature, Eric Carle, Frog and Toad, genocide, Go Ice Cream, Harry Potter, Huckleberry Finn, Laura Ingalls Wilder, life lessons, Little House on the Prairie, Mark Twain, Marquee Moon, Murph, n-word, Native Americans, Richard Murph, Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Star Wars, The Onion, Thin Man, Tom Sawyer, truth pond |
By Mark | February 23, 2009
I wasn’t going to post anything about last night’s Oscar awards, but then my friend Matt wrote to tell me that one of my favorite actors, Patrick McGoohan, hadn’t been included in the In Memoriam section. And, now, I feel obligated to say something, if only to further ingratiate myself to the ghost of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged Ben Stiller, Braveheart, Dolemite, Joaquin Phoenix, Oscars, Patrick McGoohan, Rudy Ray Moore, Scientology, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Vampira |
I wanted to be relatively quick with my follow-up to the first post, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that I could. I still haven’t told anyone outside of this house that I was setting out to keep a weblog, so there certainly aren’t any friends or readers out there bugging […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Other | Also tagged Andy Griffith, Athens, Athens GA: Inside/Out, baby shower, Crimewave, David Lynch, Girls Gone Wild, Linette, Lou Costello, Monkey Power Trio, Mulholland Drive, panties, Pylon, Russian exchange student, sex, Skakel, underwear, Walter |
