…to not watch the World Cup (I didn’t — I already had plenty), beware the vuvuzela.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Vampires
We stopped clicking for a few minutes and found a show that looked interesting, and watched it for a few minutes. Then we discovered it was about vampires.
Click.
What is it with modern culture (or even popular culture going back decades, or centuries) that is so fascinated by immortal blood suckers? I know there are lots of pseudopsychological explanations for it, but they just leave me cold. I have zero interest.
Kind of like Barack Obama, now that I think about it. And I wouldn’t deny a relationship.
I mean, parasites are parasites…
Hayek
…versus Hayek. I like them both, actually, but obviously for different reasons.
Carnival Of Space
I often don’t link to these, because I often find them to be carnivals of space science and astronomy, but Ken Murphy has a very linky special edition from the recent ISDC, including a budding young talent.
Nowhere Man
As Glenn says, I can imagine a lot of campaign commercials coming from this. And a commenter notes the same thing that I thought when I heard what McCartney said. George Bush married a librarian.
Moron. I hadn’t realized before how completely lacking in class he was.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Jay Nordlinger.
Virginia Postrel
An interesting discussion of Obama’s glamour problem, and the perversities of health care.
The Five Stages
[Via Jonah’s weekly email, to which you should subscribe]
A Premake
What if The Empire Strikes Back had been made in the fifties?
[Via Geekpress]
Martin Gardner
RIP. I hadn’t realized that he’d retired so long ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
Some personal memories from John Derbyshire.
The Last Episode Of Lost
I missed it. As I did all the other episodes. I never saw a single one.
Though, actually, now that I think about it, I never missed a single one.