A New Orleans Primer
By Brian | March 1, 2010
I’m often asked where I would go or what I would do if I were taking a week (or weekend) trip to New Orleans. This, essentially, is the highlights from a series of emails I’ve written about how I would get my tourist on in the Crescent City. These opinions are my own, and are [...]
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A failure at defining “pseudo-feminist”?
By Brian | February 18, 2010
Perhaps I’m missing the point, but I fail to understand exactly how The Magnetic Fields’ songs are “pseudo-feminist” because they fall short of the mark of really empowering women? Or perhaps it’s part of a greater meta-point that I can never truly grasp how their songs are pseudo-feminist since I lack the proper plumbing. Either [...]
Topics: Art & Copy, No Taxation Without Representation, Within Me a Madman Sings | 2 Comments »
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Magnetic Fields ‘With Whom to Dance”
By Brian | February 15, 2010
Topics: Love Is A Battlefield, Within Me a Madman Sings | 2 Comments »
Wonder what the L means, or why bloggers still aren’t journalists
By Brian | February 13, 2010
Lousy? Low-rent (or alternately, low-paid, as I can’t imagine a magazine with an “ABC-audited” circ of 105K pays very much)? The L Magazine, which bills itself as a “city guide for young New Yorkers”, ran a story entitled “eMusic Now Charging $49 for the Right to Be Told Your Band Sucks Ass“, about a new [...]
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The Technical Equivalent of a Hammer on my Thumb
By Brian | February 2, 2010
Caveat – I am not now, nor have I ever maintained, that I am a coder. My programming classes were taken nearly half a lifetime ago in a strange little language called Ada.
I knew what I was getting into when I volunteered to help some friends overhaul the web site of their production company in [...]
Topics: Art & Copy, Go Out Front and Applaud Yourself, Nature Cannot Be Fooled | 1 Comment »
The Kind of “Pro-Life” Commercial the Super Bowl needs
By Brian | February 1, 2010
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Topics: Art & Copy, Fake Draw Screen Right, Go Out Front and Applaud Yourself, That Other Fertile Crescent | No Comments »