Fri, January 27, 2012

Hot Tubs and Lost Worlds, Part II

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

A Time Machine to the Hot Tub

In the 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area was ground zero for hot tub culture and the new tribe of people who would rally to it. It was the era when the counterculture went mainstream. Squares were turning on and hippies were selling out, and, along the coastal…

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Searching for Lost Time in a Hot Tub Time Machine

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

Part I: Dude, Where’s My Hot Tub?

Hot Tub Time Machine. Two common nouns preceded by two modifiers: simplicity itself. But such a perfectly pitched phrase! A heavy, initial spondee resolving into a lilting dactyl that dances off the tongue. So concise, so replete with connotation, yet so…

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“The Prisoner”: What Happens When James Bond Goes John Galt

Posted 2 years, 2 months ago

That opening — with its portentous thunderclap; the distant speck on the horizon that resolves with impossible swiftness into a Lotus 7 roadster, roaring down the motorway to the pitter-pat of a bongo tattoo and the staccato exchange of guitar and go-go brass; the furious pantomime of Patrick…

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