Category Archives: television

what is embarrassing?

Posted on Monday, 5th March 2012 by

zeph’s pop culture quiz #18 Why are the two gentlemen looking a bit off-balance, what is embarrassing in the scene depicted?     Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment … Continue reading →

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who is watching?

Posted on Monday, 2nd January 2012 by

zeph’s pop culture quiz #9 Who is watching TV in this screencap? Of course there are points awarded already for recognizing what he is watching. But a full solution requires the name of the actor watching, and the title of … Continue reading →

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the machine stops

Posted on Sunday, 18th December 2011 by

  ‘↓The Machine Stops‘ is a science fiction short story or novella by ↑E. M. Forster, first published in 1909. Here is the story’s setting as ↑Wikipedia’s plot summary has it: The story describes a world in which most of … Continue reading →

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beyond westworld

Posted on Sunday, 11th December 2011 by

Yul Brynner always has been one of my all-time favourite actors. So it is hardly surprising that his impersonation of the Gunslinger in ‘↑Westworld‘ (Crichton 1973) is one of my favourite robots. Marking the naturalistic android to be artificial only … Continue reading →

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apocalypse kit

Posted on Thursday, 1st December 2011 by

Merchandising is a strange beast. Manufacturer ↑Gerber Legendary Blades has issued an ↑Apocalypse Kit “as seen in” the TV-series ↑The Walking Dead, based on the ↑comic book series of the same name. I perfectly do understand that this is a … Continue reading →

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96 hours later

Posted on Friday, 25th November 2011 by

↑96 hours to the stone age at ↑GigaOM complements ↵behind closed doors and ↵telegeography. The story asks, especially in respect to information technology, what will happen when electrical power won’t be delivered anymore. Well, an apocalypse in the strict sense … Continue reading →

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culture’s shadow

Posted on Wednesday, 16th November 2011 by

Tonight the opening of ↑this year’s EthnoFilmFest in Munich (16 through 20 November 2011) will take place at the Völkerkundemuseum [Ethnological Museum]. The festival, and Munich meanwhile being renowned for visual anthropology, is largely due to the work of my … Continue reading →

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who is it?

Posted on Monday, 31st October 2011 by

zeph’s pop culture quiz #1 With all that popular culture material residing on my hard drives, and with all the hodgepodge of “knowledge” and trivia about it residing in my head, I thought it to be a good idea to … Continue reading →

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