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More X
Using X as a brand is almost always doomed, starting of course with plain old Brand X, the universal “wrong” brand contrasted with Our Wonderful Brand. I could only think of one positive X brand in the past. One of the legendary Texas cattle brands was XIT which stood for Ten In Texas. The Farwell…
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First, second, third, fourth
One of the pro-AI substackers, discussing the fast “development” of systems like Midjourney, said: The next blockbuster movie will be written by a kid in Mom’s basement. First thought: It’s not “developing”. The development is done. What we’re seeing now is a carefully planned and staged rollout by the Men Of Monopoly, carefully publicized by…
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More Wallace
Here’s another 1948 speech by Henry Wallace, focusing on postwar inflation. Again I’ve uploaded the speech itself without the intro and outro. Causes of Inflation, 14 minute mp3. I’ll transcribe some relevant parts for the web record. Part of the speech is details of prices and products that are no longer relevant. Our current postwar…
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Shared Multilie
Xlon’s X thing was always intended to be the whole web. 1. Commentators on both “sides” are missing the NON-ORIGINAL aspect. Before the HTML web, Compuserve and Prodigy were the entire web experience. If you were on Compuserve, you didn’t need anything else and couldn’t reach anything else, unless you got techy and delved into…
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Zit?
Elon has renamed Twitter to X, and adopted a new logo for X. More proof that he’s intentionally driving the company into the ground for an LBO. Brands that can’t be pronounced are guaranteed to fail. Remember “the artist formerly known as Prince?” Remember Latinx and Womxn? What’s the verb form? Instead of tweeting, will…
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Henry Wallace in action
Continuing my long salute to heroic Henry Wallace. His 1948 campaign has been tinfoiled and hahahaed out of history. In high school “history” class we heard a recording of his 1948 convention. The teacher “instructed” us about its silliness and absurdity. A new recording has popped up at Otrcat.com among a large collection on the…
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I don’t blame them
I finally signed up for Twitter, so I can compare the algorithmic feeds of all the major social media. Question at hand: Who is covering the PURPOSE OF LIFE now that Franny has brought it into the public conversation for the first time since 1945? Nothing subtle about Rumble and Reddit and Medium. Rumble is…
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Where’s the guild? There.
Before the NAZI TORTURE CAMP, and strongly and plaintively during the CAMP, I’ve been asking over and over WHERE’S THE GUILD? Where is the organized defense of humanity, or even the organized self-interested defense of occupations and businesses? Franny continues to perform the function of a Guild, which has been lost for many decades. In…
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More Zenith, more Audrey
Continuing a theme! In this episode of Meet McGraw, Audrey plays a femme fatale who is setting up the patsy for a poisoned Martini. She starts a Cobra-Matic for aptronymic mood music.
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Dotay is
Today is Pi Approximation Day and also Doonerism Spay. 7/22 is a spoonerism of 22/7. Nice accijunctal condention. Volve was also impied in the most spamous foonerism, allegedly said by old Spean Dooner himself in his role as piston of an Esexcopal church: “Mardon me padam, but this pie is occupewed. May I sew you…
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Sequoyah was smart
A new article in Tablet makes a strong point. Hebrew is what keeps the Jewish tribe together. The author underestimates the specific linguistic power of Hebrew. (As opposed to just any generic shared language.) = = = = = START TABLET: To better understand this relatively unexplored contrast, we might refer to the distinction made…
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Not jinxing
Several times I prematurely celebrated the end of hell, only to be psychopathed down into deeper hell. In May 2020 I celebrated the end of lockdowns, which were instantly replaced by ballgags. In March 2022 I celebrated the partial end of ballgags, which were still continued on buses. The bus ballgags ended in May 2022,…
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Slightly more awareness
Berenson is taking the same naive approach to journalistic “objectivity” as Taibbi. = = = = = START BERENSON: Yet the New York Times is now on the verge of endorsing government censorship, or at least saying that it shouldn’t be dismissed, that its value is a “thorny question.” Does the Times even remember what…
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Speaking of Zenith
One of those old Hollywood gossip radio shows mentioned that Audrey Totter was taking driving lessons. The host said “Hope she doesn’t learn too well. I wouldn’t mind being nudged by Audrey’s bumper.” Hmm. Wonder what he meant? And speaking of Zenith: My old friend the Trans-Oceanic wasn’t seen often in movies.
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Zenith animism
Zenith always added life to its products. The fancier radios had ‘entertainment on all sides’, with active dials and Magic Eye tubes and lively controls. Their fanciest record changer in the ’50s had one uniquely analog feature. The speed was smoothly controllable. Other phonos selected 16, 33, 45 and 78. The Cobra-Matic could be set…
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