I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]
Tag Archives: Woodstock
Looking for the Mark III
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, World on a Wire 13 Comments
Elizabeth Warren and Bowzer…. starting day two at Netroots Nation
I’m incredibly frustrated. I’m seeing a lot of good stuff at the Netroots Nation conference, but, unfortunately, technical difficulties have been thwarting me at every turn. I thought that I was being sufficiently cautious when I packed two cameras, but, now that I’m here, neither seems to be working. My old Flip camera is refusing […]
Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bill McKibbon, Bowzer, Daily Kos, Democracy for America, Elizabeth Warren, Eric Schneiderman, Jim Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Jon Bauman, Markos Moulitsas, Mazie Hirono, Netroots Nation, Providence, recall, Scott Walker, Sha Na Na, Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin, Zach Wahls 6 Comments
Totally Awesome Fest 5, this weekend in Ypsilanti
All hell breaks loose in Ypsi this weekend, in a good way… I was going to say that Totally Awesome Fest is, “Like Woodstock, but more intimate and without the hippies,” but, in all honesty, there will likely be lots of hippies. I wouldn’t let that stop me, though. The Totally Awesome Fest is a […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Ben Miller, Charlie Slick, Dreamland Theater, Free Furniture, Gigi Allyn, Gold Cat, hippies, Lord of the Yum-Yum, Manhole, Patrick Elkins, Pleasuredome, Totally Awesome Fest 27 Comments