Clang, Clang, Clang Will Go the Trolley?
It’s back to the future time.
22 US cities have plans to construct street cars.
Yup, you heard right. Those trolley cars that were all ripped out in the 50s and 60s are making a comeback.
As much as I love cars, I hate them as daily transportation. I’ve never had to commute by car, and I [...]
Big Business vs. The Planet
I know it’s very popular to think we can each save the planet if only we unplugged our laptops for an hour or recycled just one more can, but despite doing all that, I remain a skeptic.
I’ve long contended that without major change from the real big polluters (the manufacturers, not the consumers), we’re [...]
It’s Groundhog Day Again for the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum is planing to expand.
Again!
No, you’re not having a nightmare where you wake up every morning and relive the same day over and over again.
The Whit has been talking about expanding since before some of us were even born.
So… let’s take a stroll down memory lane of museum proposals.
Norman Foster 1979 – 1980
Michael [...]
Banks are the New Evil Villains
There’s always someone or something we all love to hate.
And according to the new Better Business Bureau ranking, banks are climbing the charts as the people who piss us off most.
Or, as they put it:
banks are moving up the charts like a Beyonce’s single.
Well, considering that they’re taking people’s homes away from [...]
HIGH SOCIETY: “Fame is a Hobby”
Welcome to pop!talk’s world exclusive HIGH SOCIETY recap show — featuring Yellow Peril and Error 404!
This week on HIGH SOCIETY HIGH, “some completely random lady” plays Bingesly Hess during her intense heart-to-heart with her mom, Male Mercer, a real housewife of NYC & Newport, who’s been reading the script from a completely different reality TV [...]
The Lustron Next Door
When we first moved in I really didn’t pay much attention to the somewhat hodge-podgey lodge next door.
Shortly there after an issue of Preservation magazine came in the mail, and there on the cover was a house just like it.
Well, just like part of it.
Turns out the original house is a Lustron: the all-steel, [...]
Crazy Christians Top the News
Again! Three bible quoting bozos hit the top 10 in today’s news.
Wisconsin District Attorney and crazy Christian Scott Southworth has warned teachers that he’ll arrest them for doing their jobs.
State law requires that schools teach comprehensive sex education.
But Southworth vows to skirt the law, instead prosecuting educators for contributing to the delinquency of a [...]
Is Reality TV Trying to Cater to Me?
Well, at least Bravo is!
Remember back to when people could and would say things like “I don’t watch reality TV” like it was just one thing?
In reality, what they really meant was “I don’t watch Big Brother.”
But today, there are so many shows of differing type, subject matter, venue, etc… that saying “I [...]
Interest in Mid-Century Modern Architecture Shrinking
Literally.
In fact, rediscovery of modern domestic design has trickled down into the world of miniatures.
Doll house decor used to be dominated by Victorian bric-a-brac, but now modernist obsessed collectors are changing the face of the American mini landscape.
I just hope that, unlike real life 1950s sprawl, the new miniature building boom doesn’t consume farm [...]
Extreme Makeover: Foreclosure Edition
Call me Sybil cuz I’ve been predicting this for years!
The families ‘gifted’ ridiculous product-packed McMansions amid eardrum piercing screeches (and that’s just from Ty!) really can’t afford them.
Like duh.
Seriously, I’m the only one who ever wondered how downtrodden people who seem to have so many problems (one starts to suspect they’re making a few [...]
