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Here’s a commercial for the Honda Del Sol from 1995.It’s very Bondian, from the music to the casting to the theme. So much so, that MGM sued Honda and made them pull it off the air.The lawsuit accuses Honda of copyright infringement and...
Back in the mid-90s, there was a very short-lived primetime show called Fortune Hunter. I can’t find a full episode (only five of them actually aired), but here’s a short promo video.Carlton Dial was a literal fortune hunter — he did...
An author is never more vulnerable than when they have a book coming out, so I’ll often reach out to their publicists and snag them for an interview. In this case, the publicist reached out to me, and I’m very glad she did, because I’ve...
The slate wagon body is simple, and ingenious. First, the sides are dropped into holes in the floor. These needed to be drilled out, although I just waggled a tapered reamer in to make them larger. Lashings of MEK softened the plastic so...
See my letter, “Inside the man is a teenager.”
In the words of Jonathan Coulton: “Doesn’t matter who you areHow your week has been so far’Cause you know when lunchtime comesThat everything will be okay Hooray, pizza dayHooray, pizza day” The pizza was good. Hails!
Artist and filmmaker Erik Winkowski’s “Zinemail No. 1” and “Zinemail No. 2” (and now “Zinemail No. 3”) are some of the most interesting uses of the Substack platform I’ve ever seen, so I asked him if he’d do a typewriter interview. It’s...
A blackout I put at the top of my letter, “Summer Catch-up.” I haven’t done these in a while. Takes a bit to get back into them.
. ‘Reading Magazines’ day at St Bride Foundation at part of the London Design Festival in September The programme for Reading Magazines: 300 Years of Magazine Evolution is now in place. The event is being organised by Steve Watson at...
I have made expensive mistakes. With my first salary, I bought an Adobe Creative Suite Professional license for 1.500 € and a Maya Complete license for 5.500 €, because I was certain I would become a 3D artist. I did not. Then I upgraded...
Anyone making a map of the Japanese occupation of China, or more generally of the wartime Japanese empire as a whole has a few ways they can go about it. The first and most common option is to depict the geographical expanse of Japanese...
I started working in technology around 1993. One of my first jobs was in quality assurance, partly because there was no security profession to join yet. There were people doing the work, but few companies were hiring for it. That changed...
This is the second time we eat outside. I honestly don’t think my body can take big greasy things anymore. Fries are no longer a thing for me. Totally not worth the bloated feeling I get afterwards.
I'm a dumbfuck, I'm clouded, I must be, from all the shit I put into my body, into my brain. I don't recognize myself. I look at me and it's not someone I'd trust. Can I even trust my thoughts? It must be it, this sad fatalistic state,...
It is an immutable law that, as we hate, we become more and more like the object of our hatred, even if we feel righteous in hating the one who is dangerous, unjust, or vulgar. This is the alchemy of hatred. But as we love, we become,...