Tag Archives: Pop Culture

In Space, No One Can Hear You Spin

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Will Moss

Crisis PR for science fiction’s most evil company Note: Minor spoilers for the recent “Alien: Earth” series. I was eleven in 1979 when my dad took me to see Ridley Scott’s Alien at the Geneva Drive-In, in South San Francisco. I watched … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on In Space, No One Can Hear You Spin

Triumph of the Wankers

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Will Moss

Stadium Concerts and the Iconography of Totalitarianism I am going to start with something polarizing. I like the band Oasis. When people who don’t like Oasis find out that you do like Oasis, they will often try an intervention, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Triumph of the Wankers

The Kiss-Cam of Annihilation

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Will Moss

The reputational risks of being a Coldplay fan Here is proof that the universe hates you: You go to a Coldplay show with your paramour thinking you will be safely anonymous in a darkened arena full of 50,000 people with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The Kiss-Cam of Annihilation

Who Speaks for the Killer Shark?

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Will Moss

You’re gonna need a bigger PR plan I saw Jaws for the first time when it premiered on network television. This was in in November 1979, just after I’d turned 12 and more than four years after the movie had been in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Who Speaks for the Killer Shark?

The Greatest Dis in History

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Will Moss

Settling a score with style on America’s biggest stage When I was in elementary school, there was a kid who teased me about my first name, which is Diccon. I’ll call him Eddy McNair. This is a made-up name because he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The Greatest Dis in History

Life, Death and Radio

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Will Moss

  News today that longtime San Francisco music station KFOG is no more. It’s going to drop music and switch to simulcasting sports-talk from KNBR. Gen-X Bay Area natives, like me, may remember KFOG as one of the seminal music … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Adventures in audio tape

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Will Moss

Yesterday Bloomberg ran what was essentially a PR piece for Ballfinger, a German maker of rarefied audio equipment, including reel-to-reel stereo tape decks that start at $11,000. The thesis: reel to reel is making a comeback. This is of course a bullshit … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Adventures in audio tape

Godzilla vs. the SARFT Monster

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Will Moss

I’ve been watching a lot of Godzilla movies recently. This isn’t some kind of weird Cable TV accident, like stumbling onto “Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy” at 2AM when you have a microwave burrito in one hand and a vodka … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Godzilla vs. the SARFT Monster

What I learned from Dashan

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Will Moss

I don’t have much time for social Q&A site Quora, I confess. It seems to combine the narcissism of blogging (I should know!) with the politics of Wikipedia editing in all sorts of odd ways. I signed up early, lurked … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on What I learned from Dashan

The almighty soft-power princess bomb

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Will Moss

Chinese soft-power is doomed. I came to this conclusion a couple of weeks ago. The message was delivered in the form of a guy in a mouse suit on ice skates, and I received it loud and clear when Mrs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on The almighty soft-power princess bomb