Daedalus Howell | Media • Through a wine glass, darkly.

The mortgage crisis be damned. I just received a press release that offered “a taste of the many real estate options available to you, the multiple-home owner.” The editor of LuxuryLife newsletter is pimping The World, a 12 deck ship replete with 165 private residence options, seven restaurants, a spa, golf (using biodegradable golf balls […]

On Monday, I awoke in the fetal position, swaddled in a purple-stained T-shirt that read: “I attended the 16th Annual Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction and all I got was a hangover and this stupid T-shirt.” At least metaphorically, that’s how I began Labor Day and literally, pretty much how I ended it. The auction […]

A chat with Daily Show scribe Rob Kutner about his hilarious survival guide Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times!

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I failed the Voight-Kampff test. Albeit, it was an online version of the “empathy exam” meant to separate the men from the machines as seen in Blade Runner, so it’s likely I’m the victim of some order of digital chicanery. Even though the test couldn’t monitor my “blush response” and “eye movement” as […]

David E. Price’s The Pixar Touch is a comprehensive portrait of the pixels and perseverance that shaped Academy Award-winning animation juggernaut Pixar Animation Studios. Price deftly unravels Pixar’s tightly braided helix of creativity and technology in a stirring analysis of the personalities (Ed Catmull, George Lucas, Steve Jobs and Sonoma’s own John Lasseter among others) […]