1990-1999

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This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. As the Eighties wore on, as Madonna adroitly used wardrobe for personal reinvention instead of, as I believed my own musical heroes had, using personal reinvention for personal reinvention (even if they fell on their face); as money became […]

Neil Postman: Informing Ourselves to Death The following speech was given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart, sponsored by IBM-Germany. The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6S-wTidqVs&feature=youtube_gdata_player Every so often the turmoil of politics and the excess of America’s racism would flare. In 1991 the footage of Rodney King beatings blanketed the LA airwaves, and I felt I was once again as if I was witnessing the American South in 1962 or the riots in Watt). But despite the horror of […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frlpvJPZp0&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLL1XJC5k5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player And so I became involved again. I sent money, signed petitions, and sent emails (the new technology in town). I had never, since the Vietnam War, seen the country so polarized. For all of 1998 it was as if the U.S. dialogue was almost exclusively about Bill Clinton’s blow job. It was Amusing […]

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George H.W. Bush dropped from over 90% popularity after the Gulf War to under 40% by March. The U.S. had entered a slight recession by 1992, never a good thing for an incumbent, and Bush was too centrist for the conservative base that was beginning to dominate his party. That he raised taxes – despite […]

I finally left Los Angeles to return to San Francisco. I made my last movie, another homage to the singer songwriter, based on the work of Rickie Lee Jones, and then I devoted myself entirely to interactive media. My mother turned 70, and I wanted to be with her in the last years of her […]

Cable news was all over it. Soon we started to see the footage of laser guided smart bombs and cruise missiles fired from destroyers. There were concerns about Iraqi use of chemical weapons and the heat. A little over five weeks later the war was over. For years people complained that Bush stopped short of […]