TweetSo let’s see what happens. I’ve sat down this morning, coffee and silence, cereal and spoon, with nothing but desire to tell you everything I can about everything of me. I’m going to put this whole thing out there, and listen for any indication it was heard. If it falls flat, just barely leaves the [...]
TweetJournalism has one foot firmly planted in the future, but has struggled mightily to get the other foot to follow. An information superhighway threatens to chop off journalism’s lagging leg, but journalists remain. They’ve adopted new techniques, and adapted to this digital age. Journalism will thrive in the future, and will feature instant gratification for [...]
TweetNot 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 [...]
TweetPicture 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 [...]
TweetI 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 [...]
TweetView 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 [...]
TweetI 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 [...]
TweetThe 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 [...]
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TweetLos 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 [...]