Posts Tagged ‘social critique’
What, me worry?
Friday, January 28th, 2011
But seriously, good luck to everyone in Egypt, police and civilian alike.
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Enter Title Here
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Here’s where I prepare a topic sentence to introduce an entire paragraph leading up to an obscure subject. Here’s where I talk about how long I’ve been in the blog game. Here’s where I talk about my experiences that everyone has had and I know can certainly relate. Here’s where I mention how what I’m about to talk about has never been encountered by mankind and I’m the first to notice it. Here’s where I use an Oxford Comma to vary, expand, and complicate my sentence structure.
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Intercasses Incognites
Sunday, October 25th, 2009I now believe I have found the strangest site on the internet.

Where an adult can be a kid?
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Up, Up, and Away
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Hunting Llamas
Monday, October 5th, 2009“Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity.”
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009As we all know, Kanye is a self-absorbed waterhead without a thought filter on his mouth. His stupid interruption of the WMA awards revealed his coarseness. Everything that could have been said about the incident has been said (though some more insightful than others) and, barring any more ridiculous outbursts from Kanye, this matter should die a quick death.
What is noteworthy, however, is the complete inability to find the actual video on YouTube. A simple search reveals pages and pages of what seem to be the actual video, but then turn out to be vapid commentaries by anonymous people from across the blogos-net. Each one talks about how rude the interruption was and how he/she is outraged by Kanye’s actions. And yet, here we have thousands of people using this very transgression to further their own internet stardom. So much so that even the original video isn’t even readily available on the most popular video sharing site.

We’re only a few years away from Ruby Rhod, folks.
There’s only one thing that can keep growing without nourishment: the human ego.
—Marshall Lumsden
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Looking for my Leia
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
One of the questions that has plagued me since the advent this digital age: are there really this many screwed up people in the world, or did the internet just make them more visible?
From Craigslist.org NYC:
“young jabba the hut looking for a temporary apartment, prefers something cool and damp, like a basement, and most preferably near washer and dryer (he loves the smell!) also he is neat and tidy (get him now before he becomes a huge ball of slime) and likes to fall asleep being read love poetry, preferably in arabic though fractured french is also accepted. good cuddler, too, and just so darn cute. check out the artist’s rendering: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bearandbird/3707464588/in/set-72157621227964172/“
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Plight of the Masses
Friday, August 21st, 2009The Washington Post has a front-page story complaining about the low quality of food in Paris. What are well-to-do Washington Post journalists to do? I say, let them eat cake!

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Cable
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009I live a monkish lifestyle. I sleep on a futon mattress in a room smaller than my dorm room back in twenty-aught-three. I have a desk but no chair. I have a window but no air. I like to pretend I’ve taken a vow of poverty to cleanse my spirit; but really my penury stems from external causes (mainly my liberal arts degree).
There is one thing I have not missed from the affluent life: television; more specifically, cable news. Here are two examples:
CNN’s coverage of Barney Frank’s town hall meeting:
and Fox’s coverage:
Who to trust? Neither. Turn off the TV and pick up a newspaper. Then give it to me so I can use it as insulation when the winter comes.
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