Frank Patrick
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The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message
A new podcast from The Guardian plans to offer up short analyses of “Big Ideas”. While I would have preferred more than 10 minutes on the prescient philosopher of media, Marshall McLuhan, what they do with those 10 minutes is excellent.
One bit I didn’t know was that the title of “The Medium is the Massage” was a typo that McLuhan liked and kept, conflating the mess-age with the mass-age.
I look forward to subsequent episodes.
[Note: a previous post on McLuhan.]
The late Peter Falk, as a former angel talking to Bruno Ganz’s angel in Wings of Desire (one of my favorites) about the joys of the little things of life in this world.
(And yes, Bruno Ganz has played characters other than Hitler.)
Alan Watts, animated.
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
- J. Michael Straczynski, via his Babylon 5 character, Marcus Cole
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