Tag: culture
All the articles with the tag "culture".
Moonawana
Most folks have heard about the Aqua Teen Hunger force ads (up for weeks in 12 other cities) causing a terrorist scare in Boston by now. I know if I was going to plant a bomb it would look like a Lite…
Hot for the apocalypse
Kurt Andersen has written a great piece over at NY Magazine. Titled “ The End of the World As They Know It ”, it dives into culture and attitudes obsessed with apocalypse. Five years after Islamic apo…
Fruit for the people!
One of the things I love about California is that you can grow pretty much anything here. I don’t own a patch of dirt, but I’ve got a patio with potted fig, mandarin, lemon, and avocado trees. The yie…
Barona Powwow
(All photos for this post can be found here: 2006.09.01 Barona Powwow) A few weeks ago Anna and I started hearing some ads on KPBS for the Barona Powwow . The event is free (including free camping), s…
Wild foods
While restocking at Trader Joes the other day, I was surprised to find an ingredient I haven't had in 15 years - fiddleheads . Sauteed with a bit of butter and lemon, they are one of my favorite green…
Does irony translate?
This whole cartoon thing is rediculous . Michael Standaert has the right idea : Why does the Danish Prime Minister even need to be involved in this situation or apologize for this? What I don't unders…
Bologna Ponies at the Technomania Circus
(All photos for this entry are posted here ) Saturday night rolled around, and I headed south into Barrio Logan to check out Jimmy & Co (aka Bologna Ponies ) play. After their burlesque show appearanc…
I'm a leftist puritan grinch or, buy your way to a merry Christmas
Tom is on a roll; another interesting These Days on KPBS. The topic for this segment is consumerism and the holidays . His guests were Kalle Lasn of Adbusters , the always entertaining Rev Billy Talen…
Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can't fault Jim Kunstler's view of recent development in Calgary - "..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized c…
NewTithing
On These Days this morning they hosted someone from the NewTithing Group to talk about a new study. The group has just completed a study on quarter of a million individual tax returns . They looked at…