This morning I stumbled upon The Catalog of Cool, a book published in 1982 and purchased around the same time. It was tucked away in a low corner of a bookcase, long forgotten. Edited by Gene Sculatti, a contributor to Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970’s, The Catalog of Cool gives us…well, let’s hear it straight from the editor’s typewriter. (more…)
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the catalog of cool
Posted: February 19, 2012 in ArtsTags: Abba, cool, fashion, film, Flamingos, Gene Sculatti, hip, Hunter Thompson, James Bond, life, London Calling, music, Prime Cut, Sleazoid Express, Swamp Dog, The Catalog of Cool, trends
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guilty as charged, your hipness
Posted: October 26, 2011 in Humorous BitsTags: Abba, attitude, cool, encyclopedia, hip, humor, life, random, SpongeBob
You can point to the post-war prosperity and social changes wrought more than a half a century ago, when the future glistened with optimism unlike any we’d ever experienced. Industry and invention streamlined everyday tasks allowing people to concern themselves with more conceptual matters, matters not tied to the business of daily survival. New attitudes were born, attitudes whose values were deeply (more…)
adjusting to a brave new world
Posted: June 27, 2011 in Humorous BitsTags: apps, hip, iPhone, modern, Pippa, random, smartphone, technology, vindaloo chicken
This past weekend I finally took the plunge into the world of multi-functional handheld devices. No, I didn’t get a pen that doubles as a laser pointer. Nor did I purchase a plastic egg containing the wildly versatile Silly Putty. (It stretches! It bounces! It copies ink off newspapers!) As much fun as those things are, I ventured in a different direction, plunging headfirst into 2011 with an iPhone4. What an amazing device! Let me tell you, there’s nothing like (more…)
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