Trent Reznor Doesn’t Think Nora’s a Dork, Yet.
Cathi brings us this news from the International Herald Tribune, that the US may take China to the WTO in an effort to get the Chinese government to crack down on piracy.
Nora finds this hilarious old Peter Cook/Dudley Moore takeoff of the Thunderbirds-era marionette spy shows (via boingboing). Nora and Cathi speculate there may be a return, again, to swinging 60s English hipness…Dak shoes, Mackintosh’s, Bedazzled, and Peter Cook! Ooh, where’s my Ben Sherman shirt?
Nora promises this is just about the last time she mentions gaming blending the real world and the virtual. Nine Inch Nails are marketing their new album using an alternate reality game. There. Was that so painful, Cathi?
April 24th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Don’t just bring back the clothes and the films, bring back the adverts: the Moore-Cook Guinness beer TV ads.
Wrong age and country to have seen them when they played on-air, but discovered them on one trip to the Guinness Museum in Dublin, made a second trip a couple of years later (to the museum, not Dublin, that would have been over the top, even for me) specially to spend a pleasant hour viewing them. Wonderful little mini-films that just happen to mention the sponsor.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Oh yeah….I love that old stuff. I wonder if they’re up on youtube. Thanks Derek!