Archive for December, 1999

Making holiday memories.

Sunday, December 19th, 1999

So I’m trying to put myself into the mind of my seven and a half year old niece. Would she be captivated with Olive: The Other Reindeer, the “contemporary” holiday offering from the nice people at Fox? Honestly, that’s what was going through my mind as I watched last week.
I was trying to get back [...]

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Ten years on.

Thursday, December 16th, 1999

If you can read this, you’re too close • Bringing Novosoy Isoflavones to people nationwide. JCB, Supermarket to the World. • Blink and flash-free for a calmer viewing experience • Trying desparately to NOT use the word ‘compliant’ anywhere on the site • Take gap, give gap • Composed of 100% recycled electrons • Undedicated, antidetermined, undependable  

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Taking a hit from The Big Pipe.

Tuesday, December 14th, 1999

It’s only in these waning weeks of the 20th century that I feel as if I’m really beginning to experience The World Of The Future that was promised us in science museums back in the sixties. This is not my beautiful self-cleaning house, this is not my personal rocket pack, heck, this isn’t even my [...]

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E-gads!

Tuesday, December 7th, 1999

They almost look like the result of some sort of switching mistake in master control-these commercials seemingly out of the Lawrence Welk and Bing Crosby past-genial sweatered singing white guys at holiday time. The look-and the tinny monaural sound-is just what you’d expect from a rerun from the sixties, when color television was in its [...]

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