The Kid followed in the footsteps of his father, who taught him how to play the game. Ken Sr. instructed Junior on the three parts of baseball; defense, hitting, and base running — defense being first. Junior listened to his father, a long time Cincinnati Red, and himself became a pro player at age 17. [...]
Not everybody lives in the monoculture, of course, but it takes a very specific effort to not fall into it. Since one of the qualities of culture is that it is ubiquitous, the monoculture cannot simply be removed; it has to be replaced with something else every bit as encompassing and central to the identities [...]
Picture this scenario: You are at a party and a person wearing dark rimmed glasses clad in tailored black clothes sits down and starts talking to you. They open their mouth and out pours “The spatial quality of this habitation is a little reminiscent of Gropius with a marriage of Corbu, but only due to [...]
I prostrate my mind before you tonight after hours upon hours of television-watching with the dog, which has given me a headache that could kill the pope and still have enough left over to take down a couple of those fancy Swiss guards of his. And I do this for your amusement. At least try [...]
View the world through an unfiltered lens, and wait for the right situation to develop. I pull off to the shoulder side on the long road of life, and reach into the back seat for a little black bag. Its memory making contents are pulled from their compartments, and the blinding caps are removed. Through [...]
I hate these days where I wake up to the rain and have a headache. What is worse is that I know why I have a headache, and it has nothing to do with soju. Removing mold from a Korean apartment is quite the undertaking, as mold in Korea grows with a vengeance. Imagine New [...]
The speakeasy exists in American culture as a wonderful relic of the Prohibition era, when gathering together under the same roof as a bunch of other people in order to get sauced was completely illegal unless you all happened to be drinking wine and having little crackers to go with it. It’s a relic of [...]
Humid, thick, the air is heavy inside an air-conditioned airport. My black suitcase rolls behind me and my shoulder carries the weight of everything else I couldn’t fit, but have to bring along. The other travelers are all around me, scurrying about from boards to boarding, pulling behind them suitcases much like mine. Ticket counters [...]
Try and convince me you couldn’t go for a cookie right this second.
Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring Wales hipsters trade in clever optimism for clever heartbreak. Los Campesinos! made their high-energy debut two years ago with a pair of albums about six months apart: Hold on Now, Youngster… and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. These immediately made them critical darlings of the indie press, showing [...]