http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog The Free Market of Signs & Signifiers Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:04:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/faith-begora/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/faith-begora/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:07:04 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=1107 “I’d rather hold my Irish rose than handcuffs made of whiskey, and anyway I’m outta punts and Farley’s pub won’t miss me!” [See post to listen to audio] Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder(.mp3)]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/faith-begora/feed/ 1 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-gene-vincent/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-gene-vincent/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:33:15 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=3117 [See post to listen to audio] Cat Man]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-gene-vincent/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:03:58 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=1901 In 1930, competing American car mavens Chrysler and General Motors were directly and indirectly responsible for the two tallest buildings in the world. Walter Chrysler would have the diamond-studded, spear-shot spire of his titanic building designed in the style of the front-grill of a 1928 Chrysler automobile. John Jakob Raskob, the former V.P. of GM [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/the-general-empire-state-chrysler-motors-building/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/managing-mailer-by-joe-flaherty-berkeley-1969/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/managing-mailer-by-joe-flaherty-berkeley-1969/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:54:11 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=971 Joe Flaherty invokes the gravely droll figurative acuity of Henry James and the sweepingly intellectual semantics of Edith Wharton in reconvocating the experience of running the Mailer/Breslin Democratic primary ticket for New York City Mayor in 1968. Such a traditionally imaginative manner of prose is an effective inversion of the riotous Situationalism of the Mailer/Breslin [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/managing-mailer-by-joe-flaherty-berkeley-1969/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/joe-pesci-b-1943-newark/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/joe-pesci-b-1943-newark/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:34:32 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=860 Happy Birthday, ya prick ya!]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/joe-pesci-b-1943-newark/feed/ 1 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/barack-h-obama-inauguration-week/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/barack-h-obama-inauguration-week/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:37:04 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=559 Most vividly did the Inauguration present the landscape architecture of Washington, D.C. Vast tracts of flat Mid-Atlantic coastland ingrained and plotted with figurative visage, “from a cause to a style,” and that style is Federal Government. The environs made room for millions of spectators, the January sun was a revelator of the National Mall and [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/barack-h-obama-inauguration-week/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-birthdays-bygones/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-birthdays-bygones/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:14:23 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=323 In 2008, the Brooklyn Bridge turned 125 years-old, a modern age marvel of engineering most prime, and in its day the largest suspension bridge in the world. Fascinated and terrified of it were the People. . . It was 150 years ago that St. Patrick’s Cathedral laid its cornerstone on 5 AV, across from Rock [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/2008-birthdays-bygones/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/capt-log-colgate-clock-new-york-harbor/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/capt-log-colgate-clock-new-york-harbor/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:09:25 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=60 ]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/capt-log-colgate-clock-new-york-harbor/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/scenes-from-the-polish-tea-room/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/scenes-from-the-polish-tea-room/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:04:36 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=243 Cafe Edison, 47th & Broadway]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/scenes-from-the-polish-tea-room/feed/ 0 http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-bayonne-bridge/ http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-bayonne-bridge/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:42:26 +0000 admin http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/?p=168 The Bayonne Bridge turns 77 today! At 5,780 feet, it was the longest steel-arched bridge in the world until bested in 1978 by The New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. The Bayonne Bridge opened a month after its northern bretheren, the George Washington Bridge, and shares the GW’s architect, Cass Gilbert, who favored the [...]]]> http://www.mograbs.com/mograbs/blog/index.php/happy-birthday-bayonne-bridge/feed/ 0