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Virgin America Airlines – Disco Distractions

by January 15th, 2011 - Culture » Culture » Travel »

Many thanks to Virgin America for lubing up my nerves prior to my recent trip to Las Vegas. I don’t have much airline experience to compare it to, but Richard Branson has loaded up his Airbus A320s with enough technology and nightclub lighting to distract you from the crazy, crazy undertaking that is air travel. […]

Back and Forth – TRON Legacy 3D IMAX

by January 11th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV »

It is fair to say that my expectations for TRON: Legacy were not only high, but also highly…highly unrealistic. While visions of sugar plums dance in most people’s heads, the candied traffic in mine was mostly dominated by X-rated day-glo digital orgies where the beautiful screensaver innards of TRON hummed so forcefully with a fine […]

ABBA Of Our Lives

by May 25th, 2009 - Culture » Sounds » Creative » Writing »

The Swedish disco megaband ABBA – and I don’t use the term megaband lightly – was our future. Do not mistake me. I am not purporting that in the future we will resemble ABBA. No, no. ABBA was our future. It already happened. We missed it. We have no future. Fuck. But wait…do not yet […]

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