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The Strange Things That The Web Takes Away From Us

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 [...]

Posted 22 March 2010 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

The Monoculture and its Discontents. Part 2: Subculture Killed The Counter-Culture Star

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 [...]

Posted 11 March 2010 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Seeing Red

Try and convince me you couldn’t go for a cookie right this second.

Posted 29 January 2010 † CW § essay ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Albums of 2009

I didn’t listen to all that much new music this year — maybe about half of my music purchases were backfill for my collection, rounding out artists who I had most of their work, but not all. That said, there were a couple of albums that stood out for me this year. Most can be [...]

Posted 12 December 2009 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

on The Invisibles

“This is the comic I’ve wanted to write all my life–a comic about everything: action, philosophy, paranoia, sex, magic, biography, travel, drugs, religion, UFOs… you can make your own list. And when it reaches its conclusion, somewhere down the line, I promise to reveal who runs the world, why our lives are the way they [...]

Posted 08 December 2009 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Here Comes The Future

One of the tragedies of our time is that we’ve caught up to our future. Star Trek, in the mid-60s, posited that there would be something called the “Eugenics Wars” in the late 1990s. Gene Roddenberry didn’t worry about making up this rather silly (in hindsight) bit of canon arcana, because, after all, 1999 was [...]

Posted 27 November 2009 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,