FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

17th
Dec

Unreliable Husband

“The reason this man is an unreliable husband is because he is very weak in Conjugality and Parental Love and exceedingly strong in Amativeness....
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By HILOBROW

17th
Dec

Penelope Houston

They say that if you were in San Francisco in the summer of 1977 and went to a Filipino restaurant/club called the Mabuhay Gardens...
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By Tor Aarestad

16th
Dec

E-book as Weapon

Chris Burden offers a distilled narrative in proto-Powerpoint. It only has one bullet point – but yes, he’ll read it to you. [Chris Burden,...
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By Peggy Nelson

16th
Dec

Who, us?

Over at The Bygone Bureau, today, Tomorrow Museum’s Joanne McNeil says that HILOBROW is the Best New Blog of 2009! Why? It celebrates intellectualism...
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By Joshua Glenn

16th
Dec

Philip K. Dick

“My books (& stories) are intellectual (conceptual) mazes & I am in an intellectual maze in trying to figure out our situation (who we...
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By Joshua Glenn

15th
Dec

Special Guest, Enoch Soames

Charlie Rose: Tonight on the show we have a very special guest, Enoch Soames, long thought to be a fictional character. In Max Beerbohm’s...
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By Peggy Nelson

15th
Dec

Teletheremin-athon

Dr. Mabuse has sensed a disturbance in the Force. He has been instructed by Morpheus to conduct a spirit telethon. [still from Dr. Mabuse,...
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By Peggy Nelson

15th
Dec

The Book is a Weapon (11)

Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson (Frank Cellier) inspects a Church Hymnary that has stopped a bullet intended...
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By HILOBROW