Maureen Miller Takes On Jay-Z
Have you heard Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”? It’s a damn good track (though some take issue with Jay for swinging at certain artists while leaving other auto-tuners, read his…
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An Afterthought
Castro Street was released in 1966 by Bruce Baillie. The film went public before there was ‘The Castro’ as we now know it in San Francisco. The Castro Street Baillie…
Berlusconi in Tehran
In his piece for the London Review of Books, “Berlusconi in Tehran,” about the danger of authoritarian power within democracies, Slavoj Zizek examines the possible similarities between the victorious Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
Get Your War On… Jamba Juice
David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, is getting ripped off by Jamba Juice‘s latest ad campaign. Rees has responded by calling…
The Inevitability of Fashion
As a society, there are specific fashion trends we all look back on and can pretty much agree were horrible mistakes.
Morning Coffee
Environmental Graffiti on the natural beauty of Antelope Canyon and the man-made awesomeness of demolition. While we’re on the topic, here is an article about giant balls of fire in…
Walter Benjamin’s Translation Machine
“The device itself looked for all the world like an Underwood typewriter, at once sleek and erect. In place of the roller carriage, however, rose a stately glass dome, like…
Edith Wharton’s Lost Letters
In the upcoming New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes about Edith Wharton’s letters to her governess, Anna Bahlmann. “Wharton had requested that her letters be destroyed, but Bahlmann’s family ignored her…
Jonathan Lethem Meets The Thing
I was waiting on a couple the other night at a restaurant where I work, and I saw a strange box on their table that had Jonathan Lethem‘s name printed…
Derrick Jensen’s Essay from The Time After
In the time after, when industrial civilization is a bitter and too-slowly-fading memory, a memory of a nightmare too atrocious to be believed by those who were not alive in…