Urban Honking

Well I’ve been out of it again, w/r/t movies and the watching of them. I am teaching more-or-less full time (ha! Meaning: one class (how do people do it??)) and spend my off-hours frantically speaking to non-18-year-old humans, staring at my dog, sleeping in the steam room at the gym, and, weirdly/newly, playing “Pikmin” on […]

I’ve always loved the line from the song Signs by Five Man Electrical Band, “…So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign…”. That’s what we did when we created Plazm. I stood in the 20 Year Anniversary party, and looked around–it was a room of sign […]

Manohla Dargis talks about seperating a director from their work, i.e. Is Lars Von Trier really a Nazi Sympathizer and her feelings about watching a Polanski film when she thinks he’s a pedophile and rapey creep. I really love that she is bringing this into the Times consistently, she is not apologetic for her feminist […]

Free ice cream launch and history lesson brought to you by Junior Ambassador (a.k.a. Rudy Speerschneider) this Thursday from 6-8 PM. Speerschneider is known for his work in a collective project(s) known as Mostlandia, which appeared at TBA and did many interesting things around Portland. For the current occasion, on-demand art book builder Publication Studio […]

Weekend double feature +1 style now: TRON: I never saw the original, but the Disney follow-up is 1. really neat looking, like “How did they do that?”/”I would live there even though the floor of Jeff Bridges weird future-zen-palace has light up floors like the “Billie Jean” video” way. I have never seen a movie […]

MakerFaire NYC 2011 is this weekend. It’s a breathtakingly big event that’s equal parts science fair, renn fayre, and trade show from the near future. In a recent interview with Dale Dougherty Anil Dash spoke eloquently about the positive political meaning embodied in the “Maker Movement”, how it focuses us away from the conflict that’s […]

Read Adam Gopnik’s amazing dog article in the New Yorker last night (yes, I am four weeks behind due to finally having a job, sue me (please don’t sue me)) in bed alone at one a.m. TOTALLY CRYING. As a dog lover, as you know, it’s been difficult for me to accept that some people […]

I am tired of Obama. My Grand Old Party is obsessed with defeating Obama to the point where they talk of nothing else. And really, it’s not just Obama. The party focuses more attention on beating Democrats than they do on creating our own plans and projects. For example, look at the twitter of Reince […]

Not a parody! If only it was, it would be brilliant. The entire plot is given a way in 90 second plus there is a sage older woman who says “being lost is only temporary”… he found a parrot, and found love along the way… ALSO. That font! Is that Extra Frisky?

Soderbergh preys on our worstest fears (second worst after The Road coming true?!) and gives us a plausible apocalyptic nightmare of germs and opens it on 9/11 weekend. HE REALLY KNOWS HOW AMERICA LIKES IT. Contagion is basically JAWS but with coughing instead of sharks. He also knows that secretly, for all her GOOP NEWSLETTERING […]