I found this rather interesting image on a soda can, recently. The soda appears to be from France or, I assume, some other French speaking area and so may be the racial stereotype that it evokes isn’t as relevant there (where ever ‘there’ is). But it does add to the mystic of this find that I bought it in one of the whitest areas I have been – Naples, Florida. My partner and I are vacationing with her family down in the area and that part is really nice. But it’s a cultural shift to come from likes of Berkeley, California to an area like South Florida. So, it begs the question, is it purely coincidence that one can find such imagery in an area such as this?
I’m a PC user, but not one of those corporate-loving folks that takes sides on the ridiculous corp-friendly Mac versus PC debate. I find the whole thing quite stupid. I’ve just been around PC’s most and that’s what I feel comfortable using but I hate Windoze as much as anybody. The only thing is I’ve not seen any other system that makes enough changes to convince me there is any real difference worth adopting – choose your poison. I’d like to move on to Linux, personally, but then I can’t run a lot of the software I use to make a living. Anyway, I found this article stating that Apple has issued 42 software fixes! Is that company slipping or something? I thought everything was always perfect right out of their wonderfully conceived packaging?
What better way to celebrate these consumption daze then a great interview by the wonderfully verbal, horror writer, Stephen King. When you get quotes like, “I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don’t know who their f—— Representatives are,” you know you’ve got to read the piece!
If you’re like me you’re too broke to buy anything for anybody this holiday season. But none-the-less, I just read an interesting article on the phenomena of charitable giving through commercial purchases. An idea that has its merits but one that also raises a lot of concerns. For me it boiled down to this statement:
“We have people call and say they want to do this or that to benefit the foundation all the time, and we turn them down because we know what they want is to leverage your name,” Ms. Federman said.
Yes, while I was taking in the Third Coast Audio Festival this year I missed one of my favorite bands. And in recognition of that I thought I’d post a video that found on YouTube. It’s funny to see them do a video as they really, REALLY aren’t a “video” type of band. Anyway, enjoy…
Among some traditional radio folks podcasting is a step down on the hierarchy of audio production (okay, the picture that is painted is more like 10 steps down). It’s true that there are a lot of poorly made audio programs out there that fall under the genre “podcast” and I understand that this is largely what turns traditional radio supporters against “podcasting.” but I’ve had a problem accepting that a simple distribution method can make good audio bad. Lets be honest, it can’t. Check out this radio skit from the British show “Listen Against.” It’s a short and hilarious send off to this whole “debate.”
I found this rather interesting image on a soda can, recently. The soda appears to be from France or, I assume, some other French speaking area and so may be the racial stereotype that it evokes isn’t as relevant there (where ever ‘there’ is). But it does add to the mystic of this find that I bought it in one of the whitest areas I have been – Naples, Florida. My partner and I are vacationing with her family down in the area and that part is really nice. But it’s a cultural shift to come from likes of Berkeley, California to an area like South Florida. So, it begs the question, is it purely coincidence that one can find such imagery in an area such as this?
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