Friday, October 31, 2003


Generation Gap
Michael: Sorry about being AWOL the past few days, but the whole fire-and-evacuation thing, while fortunately a false alarm, kind... posted by Friedrich at October 31, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Yet More Husbandly Inadequacy
Dear Friedrich -- Something was clearly bugging The Wife. Nothing major, I could tell, but there it was. So I... posted by Michael at October 31, 2003 | perma-link | (21) comments

"City Comforts," the Book
Dear Friedrich -- Has your copy of David Sucher's revised edition of his book City Comforts arrived yet? Mine showed... posted by Michael at October 31, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Wednesday, October 29, 2003


Beyond Annoying
Dear Friedrich -- Some Great Recent Moments in Annoying Public Behavior: * The woman sitting a row behind us at... posted by Michael at October 29, 2003 | perma-link | (32) comments

Tuesday, October 28, 2003


True Art School Tales
A new installment in John Leavitt's ongoing True Art School Tales, his irregular, illustrated diary about life as an art-school... posted by Michael at October 28, 2003 | perma-link | (9) comments

The Future of Book Publishing
Dear Friedrich -- If 15 years of following the publishing biz don't entitle me to pontificate grandly and extrapolate baselessly... posted by Michael at October 28, 2003 | perma-link | (35) comments

Sunday, October 26, 2003


L.A. and The Sublime
Michael: I seem to remember you stating that you have a fundamental aversion to the Romantic aesthetic. This may explain... posted by Friedrich at October 26, 2003 | perma-link | (12) comments

Saturday, October 25, 2003


Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- Finally, what the world's been waiting for: an all-boys linkfest. Radical 'roid ranting! Or something like that.... posted by Michael at October 25, 2003 | perma-link | (5) comments

Friday, October 24, 2003


Pointy Toes
Dear Friedrich -- Are women in L.A. still wearing long, pointy shoes? (Does this shoe style have a name, do... posted by Michael at October 24, 2003 | perma-link | (32) comments

Policy Break: Work and Taxes
Michael: I don’t know about you, but I keep reading articles and op-ed pieces that earnestly suggest that taxation has... posted by Friedrich at October 24, 2003 | perma-link | (25) comments

Thursday, October 23, 2003


Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- * Courtney has turned up some interesting papers on the topic of introversion and multitasking, here. *... posted by Michael at October 23, 2003 | perma-link | (6) comments

Quotes of the Day
Dear Friedrich -- I'm reading a wonderful paper by N.K. Humphrey entitled "The Illusion of Beauty," and thought I'd pass... posted by Michael at October 23, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Visual Perception and Biology
Dear Friedrich -- Colors -- tons of them, an infinitely divisible spectrum. Don't even computers these days display something like... posted by Michael at October 23, 2003 | perma-link | (8) comments

"Glow" Update Redux
Dear Friedrich -- The Wife tells me (supportively and sweetly, but firmly) that I blew it bigtime with my previous... posted by Michael at October 23, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Wednesday, October 22, 2003


Ad Update -- "The Glow"
Dear Friedrich So far as the arts and the media go, the era during which we grew up -- the... posted by Michael at October 22, 2003 | perma-link | (8) comments

Tuesday, October 21, 2003


Milton Grenfell on Traditional Architecture
Dear Friedrich -- Laurence Aurbach, an editor at The Town Paper (here), left a comment on the previous posting that... posted by Michael at October 21, 2003 | perma-link | (5) comments

Elsewhere
Dear Friedrich -- * Get to know some of the world's most obese people here. * The art critic Robert... posted by Michael at October 21, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Sunday, October 19, 2003


Women, Men and Decisions
Dear Friedrich -- Do you find that (generally speaking, lots of exceptions allowed for, etc, etc, yawn) women and men... posted by Michael at October 19, 2003 | perma-link | (33) comments

Saturday, October 18, 2003


Culture as Mating Ritual
Michael: Are you intellectually attracted to reductionist arguments? I must admit that I am. They may be right, they may... posted by Friedrich at October 18, 2003 | perma-link | (23) comments

Behavioral Economics 101
Dear Friedrich -- Econ fan that I am, I've recently found myself poking around the corner of the field known... posted by Michael at October 18, 2003 | perma-link | (8) comments

Friday, October 17, 2003


Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * In the WashPost, Laura Sessions Stepp compares old-fashioned romance-and-flirtation with today's grab-what-you-can ethos here. (Link thanks to... posted by Michael at October 17, 2003 | perma-link | (0) comments

Lost Performance Forms
Friedrich -- At lunch with a couple of arts buddies, we found ourselves trying to come up with fairly-recent performance... posted by Michael at October 17, 2003 | perma-link | (14) comments

Thursday, October 16, 2003


Reading and Viewing Journal
Dear Friedrich -- Forgive the light blogging from my side of the continent. I've come down with a rotten cold;... posted by Michael at October 16, 2003 | perma-link | (24) comments

Follow Up: Mapping the Cultureverse
Michael: Now that we’ve been blogging for over a year, a lot of headlines I read bring to mind previous... posted by Friedrich at October 16, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Follow Up: Preserving the Rainforest
Michael: Another story that brings up echoes from previous 2blowhards postings is in the Wall Street Journal of October 16.... posted by Friedrich at October 16, 2003 | perma-link | (3) comments

Wednesday, October 15, 2003


Tom Wolfe and Transparent Buildings
Friedrich -- That brilliant troublemaker Tom Wolfe has written a couple of op-ed pieces for the NYTimes about 2 Columbus... posted by Michael at October 15, 2003 | perma-link | (8) comments

Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * David Sucher visited Louis Kahn's Salk Institute and wasn't impressed (here). I visited the Salk myself about... posted by Michael at October 15, 2003 | perma-link | (4) comments

Authorship Redux
Friedrich -- I'm looking through a wonderful little art book that's a recent fave of mine, Ronald Pisano's The Tile... posted by Michael at October 15, 2003 | perma-link | (1) comments

Tuesday, October 14, 2003


True Art School Tales
A new installment in John Leavitt's ongoing True Art School Tales, his irregular, illustrated diary about life as an art-school... posted by Michael at October 14, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

If Big is Bad, Is Small Good?
Friedrich -- Those horrendous, octopus-like multinationals, that funny big money, those soulless corporations with the hearts of accountants -- the... posted by Michael at October 14, 2003 | perma-link | (9) comments

Monday, October 13, 2003


Sexual Selection and Fashion Redux
Michael: Okay, I’ll admit it—occasionally I blow a posting. I think I’ve got a nice little idea all ready to... posted by Friedrich at October 13, 2003 | perma-link | (32) comments

Saturday, October 11, 2003


Goltzius and Authorship
Friedrich -- Your posting here about authorship and the Bible got me thinking about authorship and other kinds of works... posted by Michael at October 11, 2003 | perma-link | (11) comments

Sexual Selection and Fashion
Michael: Have you, like me, long been puzzled by certain aspects of feminine fashion? I never had any trouble with... posted by Friedrich at October 11, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Quote of the Day
Friedrich -- It is easy to lose ourselves in efficiency, to treat that efficiency as an end in itself and... posted by Michael at October 11, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Fact of the Day
Friedrich -- The largest generation of adolescents in history -- 1.2 billion strong -- is preparing to enter adulthood ...... posted by Michael at October 11, 2003 | perma-link | (3) comments

Friday, October 10, 2003


Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * Here are results of a study of blogdom done by Perseus Development. Some highlights: about a quarter... posted by Michael at October 10, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Why The Times?
Friedrich - Question for the day: Why the Times? What I mean is, why do so many bloggers love hovering... posted by Michael at October 10, 2003 | perma-link | (13) comments

No Wonder It's So Confusing
Michael: I don’t know if you’ve come across the “Documentary Hypothesis” that the Jewish Torah (for non-Jews, the first five... posted by Friedrich at October 10, 2003 | perma-link | (17) comments

Thursday, October 9, 2003


"Out of Time"
Friedrich -- As a big fan of the film version of "Devil in a Blue Dress," I was looking forward... posted by Michael at October 9, 2003 | perma-link | (3) comments

Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * Polly Frost (here) sings the praises of samurai movies, and offers her own ten-best list. * John... posted by Michael at October 9, 2003 | perma-link | (0) comments

Wednesday, October 8, 2003


"The Devil's Playground"
Friedrich -- A quick note to alert you to an interesting small movie. You know the way that a documentary... posted by Michael at October 8, 2003 | perma-link | (14) comments

Macbeth Through The Years
Michael: Do you have certain works of art that you return to repeatedly as you go through life? One of... posted by Friedrich at October 8, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Pop Culture Equals Junk Food?
Friedrich -- As far as you're concerned, is popular culture (most movies, TV, magazines, music, etc) the culture equivalent of... posted by Michael at October 8, 2003 | perma-link | (24) comments

I'm Nick-Free
Friedrich -- In the immortal words of Scott Chaffin, "Edge gel + Mach 3 Turbo = no cuts in years."... posted by Michael at October 8, 2003 | perma-link | (4) comments

Monday, October 6, 2003


Wired
Friedrich -- When we last left off (here), I was bemoaning my lack of prowess with electronics. The Wife and... posted by Michael at October 6, 2003 | perma-link | (17) comments

Can't Be Too Soon for Me
Michael: I don’t know how much time you spend driving in New York, but the amount of time I spend... posted by Friedrich at October 6, 2003 | perma-link | (10) comments

Saturday, October 4, 2003


Magazine Titles
Friedrich -- I'm in front of a rack of dazzling and lewd magazines, all of them screaming, "You know you... posted by Michael at October 4, 2003 | perma-link | (12) comments

True Art School Tales
A new installment in John Leavitt's ongoing True Art School Tales, his irregular, illustrated diary about life as an art-school... posted by Michael at October 4, 2003 | perma-link | (9) comments

Friday, October 3, 2003


Kazan and the Method
Friedrich -- Have you followed the obits for Elia Kazan? There have been a couple of beauties. I especially liked... posted by Michael at October 3, 2003 | perma-link | (19) comments

Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * My favorite new blog-discovery is George Hunka's Superfluities, here. George manages the too-rare trick of bringing together... posted by Michael at October 3, 2003 | perma-link | (15) comments

Steyn and Me
Friedrich -- I notice that the amazing Mark Steyn has seen "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" -- he reviews... posted by Michael at October 3, 2003 | perma-link | (0) comments

Pic of the Day
Michael: A week or so ago I was trying to get comfortable with the influences on Canada’s Group of Seven... posted by Friedrich at October 3, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Thursday, October 2, 2003


Policy Break: 5 Year Anniversary of the Tobacco Settlement
Michael: Possibly you read in the NY Times on September 30 the headline announcing that “States Fail to Meet No-Smoking... posted by Friedrich at October 2, 2003 | perma-link | (9) comments

Wednesday, October 1, 2003


Electronics Agonies
Friedrich -- Do you have any knack for buying electronics? I seem to have an anti-knack myself. A typical experience:... posted by Michael at October 1, 2003 | perma-link | (6) comments

Guest Posting -- Nate Davis
Friedrich -- A few postings ago I mentioned that I’d once met the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. That prompted Nate... posted by Michael at October 1, 2003 | perma-link | (2) comments

Elsewhere
Friedrich -- * Hate to admit it, but the NYTimes has run some good pieces recently. David Brooks asks conservative... posted by Michael at October 1, 2003 | perma-link | (7) comments

Reversed-Out
Friedrich -- Forgive another Andy Rooney moment on the part of your blogging partner. I love the way that computers... posted by Michael at October 1, 2003 | perma-link | (13) comments