Archive of Daedalus Howell

Daedalus Howell is an itinerant newspaperman and media maker. He writes books and blogs at DHowell.com. Subscribe to the Sunday Edition, Howell's weekly dispatch of original and curated curios, emailed to you for free. You'll also receive The Tea Cup Whale: How to Find Your Creative Niche as a Thank You for subscribing. Click here to subscribe now!

Daedalus has contributed 17 brilliant piece(s).


My Summer Vacation

by Daedalus Howell June 17, 2013

When I was a wee lad of grammar school age, it was guaranteed that within the first week of the new school year, my classmates and I would be tasked with writing the dreaded “My Summer Vacation” essay. Apart from the occasional foray to the Happiest Place on Earth or being dispatched to my mother’s […]

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In the Grand Scheme of Things

by Daedalus Howell June 3, 2013

Your gadgets are going to kill you. Not today but someday soon and we’ll have only ourselves to blame. Because we gave them the Internet. There has been much chatter about the “Internet of Things,” I thought I should read up on it, at least before their uprising so that I can at least have […]

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Bass Fishing in America: The Search for Meaning in a Beer Bottle

by Daedalus Howell May 28, 2013

As an armchair Jungian, one of my factory-default-settings is a heightened sensitivity to synchronicity – the perception that separate phenomena may share some shared significance but without “any discernible causal connection.” Think of it as pattern-recognition-plus or being bisociatively-curious. Connecting the dots in this manner might be an earmark of  genius or paranoia, depending which side […]

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Happy Birthday, Salvador Dali

by Daedalus Howell May 11, 2013

In observance of Salvador Dali’s birthday, here’s a winky little ditty in his honor. I have no idea how old Dali would’ve been but it seems time didn’t matter much to the master surrealist, you know, given his trippy/drippy depiction of pocket watches. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89950561″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

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I Wrote the Plays of William Shakespeare

by Daedalus Howell April 22, 2013

April 23 marks both the birth and death day of The Bard. No one has enjoyed as much literary fame in the English language as William Shakespeare, despite being alive for a mere 52 years (and dead for nearly 400). For that matter, no author has also endured so much scrutiny as to the authorship […]

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When is Tax Day? Pour a Pint of Death & Taxes and I’ll Tell Ya

by Daedalus Howell April 14, 2013

Unless you’re living in a rural cabin and writing screeds against the Techno-Beast, you’re probably aware that Monday, April 15, is Tax Day. Opinions on this annual day of (account) reckoning have always been mixed. Some see it as a federal shakedown, others see it as a patriotic duty. I see it as a shoebox […]

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What is Carob, an Easter Fool’s Day joke?

by Daedalus Howell March 30, 2013

Every now and again, a pair of dates collide on the calendar that, juxtaposed, naturally create the conditions of chaos and comedy. Such a time will occur this Easter Sunday, March 31, which happens to immediately precede Monday, April 1, better known as April Fool’s Day. I cannot help but think there’s some opportunity lurking […]

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Lost & Found Pages

by Daedalus Howell March 5, 2013

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/80526811″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] When I lived in Los Angeles, I would frequently discover stray screenplay pages littering the streets. I saved them all and with my ArtsID co-host Gretchen Giles, am pleased to present a staged reading of these pages, complete with cast and soundtrack provided by the fine folks […]

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The Bloody Business of Valentine’s Day

by Daedalus Howell February 14, 2013

Valentine’s Day isn’t about love. It’s about business. Here are some factoids a friendly publicist shared with me: The valentine-inclined are anticipated to spend northwards of $17.6 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, according to the National Retail Federation. Of them, 59 percent will spend an average of $128. Valentine-inspired spending on pets likewise sees […]

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5 Beatles Movies That Should Never Be Made

by Daedalus Howell January 25, 2013

In the two years since Disney pulled the plug on director Robert Zemeckis’ long-gestating, 3-D, CGI redux of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, the filmmaker has finally grown philosophical about the project. “That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life,” the director told Total Film Magazine. “But it’s probably better […]

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How to Fail-Proof Your New Year Resolutions

by Daedalus Howell December 28, 2012

When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, I’ve learned to aim low. Real low, like low enough to shoot myself in the foot. Because that’s what’s going to happen, metaphorically-speaking, if you believe a 2007 University of Bristol study that found 88 percent of resolutions fail. That we haven’t seen such a study since leads […]

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In Praise of Oscar Niemeyer: The Boy from Brasilia

by Daedalus Howell December 6, 2012

Oscar Niemeyer, the internationally-renown architect and father of modern architecture, died today at the age of 104. Among his accomplishments was the design of the futuristic “planned” city of Brasilia, which not only became the capital of Brazil but, with its abstract, non-linear forms, has inspired sci-fi cityscapes ever since. As a salute to Niemeyer’s […]

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Small Pox

by Daedalus Howell November 21, 2012

What we talk about when we talk about Thanksgiving Recently, I wrote a piece on the so-called “turducken,” the culinary abomination that shares its theme music with the Frankenstein movies, and received the following note from my pal Geoffrey Cain, who opined: “If you are going to write about the turducken, you should remember to […]

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