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Dec. 9th, 2009
2000 A.D. REVISITED
Dec. 9th, 2009 10:35 amNow that we’re about out of double-zeroes, the inevitable decade retrospectives are coming. (Indeed, I was just forced in the capacity of my day job to write one up for the telephones industry.)
I might have more posts on this later. Or not. I’m not big on decade retrospectives, if only because I have a problem with condensing ten-year periods of complex human history into a simplistic pop-culture label. The 60s = Hippies, The 70s = Disco, The 80s = Gordon Gecko, etc.
But it’s what we do. So it’ll be interesting to see what we call the 00s. The Fear & Loathing Decade is pretty accurate, but might make people think of the 60s via Hunter S Thompson. So maybe we should call it the Batshit Reality Schism Decade.
Yes. And why not? We started off the 00s with the Y2K bug and general Millennium end-of-the-world hysteria that had the Reconstructionists drooling with anticipation. In that sense, Junior Bush was the perfect president to oversee most of the 00s and keep the Big Fear show running so well that the momentum is evidently going to carry it well into 2013.
Anyway, to get an idea of how we’ve progressed as a society in the last ten years, Buzzfeed has this interesting (if somewhat apocryphal) list of “40 things that were popular at the beginning of the decade that aren’t popular anymore”.
FULL DISCLOSURE: The only three things on this list I either used or had any direct contact with were CD Walkmans, AltaVista and SARS (the latter of which killed 300 people in my city of residence and technically doesn’t belong on the list – neither does anthrax, for that matter).
Also, I have no idea who Nick Lachey and Jason Biggs are. Please don’t tell me.
Zero zero UFO,
This is dF
I might have more posts on this later. Or not. I’m not big on decade retrospectives, if only because I have a problem with condensing ten-year periods of complex human history into a simplistic pop-culture label. The 60s = Hippies, The 70s = Disco, The 80s = Gordon Gecko, etc.
But it’s what we do. So it’ll be interesting to see what we call the 00s. The Fear & Loathing Decade is pretty accurate, but might make people think of the 60s via Hunter S Thompson. So maybe we should call it the Batshit Reality Schism Decade.
Yes. And why not? We started off the 00s with the Y2K bug and general Millennium end-of-the-world hysteria that had the Reconstructionists drooling with anticipation. In that sense, Junior Bush was the perfect president to oversee most of the 00s and keep the Big Fear show running so well that the momentum is evidently going to carry it well into 2013.
Anyway, to get an idea of how we’ve progressed as a society in the last ten years, Buzzfeed has this interesting (if somewhat apocryphal) list of “40 things that were popular at the beginning of the decade that aren’t popular anymore”.
FULL DISCLOSURE: The only three things on this list I either used or had any direct contact with were CD Walkmans, AltaVista and SARS (the latter of which killed 300 people in my city of residence and technically doesn’t belong on the list – neither does anthrax, for that matter).
Also, I have no idea who Nick Lachey and Jason Biggs are. Please don’t tell me.
Zero zero UFO,
This is dF
THE COSELL/LENNON CONNECTION
Dec. 9th, 2009 01:12 pmWhen you think of Monday Night Football, you don’t really think of John Lennon. But he actually made an appearance with Howard Cosell in 1974.
Which I mention because it would be Cosell who would break the news of Lennon’s assassination six years later.
Which I also mention because Cosell’s announcement itself is one of the most powerful moments in broadcasting. Cosell somehow managed to convey the shock and violence of the murder in a single sentence that took just 15 seconds to say.
Rock the mike right,
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Which I mention because it would be Cosell who would break the news of Lennon’s assassination six years later.
Which I also mention because Cosell’s announcement itself is one of the most powerful moments in broadcasting. Cosell somehow managed to convey the shock and violence of the murder in a single sentence that took just 15 seconds to say.
Rock the mike right,
This is dF
