A Modern Life Crisis
So here’s another Thanksgiving holiday. You care because today is the biggest shopping day of the year, and it will be followed by 3 days of turkey and football — a game that lets you vicariously pay tribute to one of the biggest founding principles of this great nation: war. I care because Thanksgiving is [...]
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The purpose of this post is to show off how I coined a clever phrase (see title) that rhymes perfectly with an already popular phrase that also carries negative connotations. You care because feds stored thousands of bodyscan images and the bodyscanners were pushed through by corrupt lobbyists who don’t care that they don’t really [...]
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Red dawn came out in 1984. Besides the first ten minutes, the film was nothing more than a chicken hawk wet dream for the cold war. It is somewhat appropriate that the film was released in 1984 since it represents a major element of neoconservative thinking. At the point that it was released the Soviet [...]
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The Vice UK blog has a spread by Steve Sachs called Living the American Dream. For some reason, it reminds me of Zombieland in a way that I dont’ quite understand.
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I hate cell phones. They’re a symptom of everything that’s wrong in America, like the rib cracking cough that’s makes pneumonia so much more insufferable than the flu. Fuck you, I don’t need you. There’s someone else, somewhere else, and they’re more important than you. I don’t need you. I am connected. I can talk [...]
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Just because something is creative, that doesn’t make it art. To be art, something needs to capture a bit of truth. That’s why I could never make it as a writer, or any other kind of artist: I’ve never been able to stomach the truth. But it’s also why I make a half-decent ad-hack: I’m [...]
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His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain, Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. I just found out that Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary died today. And I’m not taking it very well. I’m not a Peter, Paul, and Mary fan, and before tonight, I wouldn’t [...]
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Do you ever think that you’re living through history? That you’re watching it go down in realtime? The last of the Kennedy’s is dead. The last of a democratic trinity. We’ve closed a chapter in the American Dream that was never realized… that was never really finished… What can our generation really boast? A black [...]
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