What Happened to the Stop Button?
The stop button has disappeared. Once ubiquitous, these buttons with the solitary but powerful impressed square were seen on every device from the Walkman to DVD players. If a device played media, it had a …
January 2014
The Melancholy of “Fifth” State of the Union Addresses
With what seems like 99% of the nation in the throes of yet another arctic blast, and the resulting ice and snow blasting a sizable chunk of that 99%, it’s only fitting that 100% of …
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa didn’t actually say, “Politics is the entertainment branch of the military-industrial complex.” But he said something close. And, honestly, if he had said that, he would have been right. Goddamn, I love being …
Irvine Welsh and Calvin Harris Working on New HBO Series
Deadline Hollywood reports that Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and fellow Scottish countryman Calvin Harris have teamed up with Jay-Z and Will Smith to create a half-hour HBO comedy entitled Higher. While this–at first glance–may appear …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnoNsZsFLY[/embedyt] Carmen Villain, aka Carmen Hillestad, is a Norwegian former supermodel whose 2013 release Sleeper has …
Wendy Davis Didn’t Lie
So this is how it works: The GOP is a bitter bunch, with a serious and well-deserved inferiority complex. They like to go tit-for-tat. So, back in 2008, when the McCain campaign was releasing attack …
Weed Roundup!
In our last Weed Roundup we gave you tips on where to go to find the news you needed to know about the implementation of recreational pot sales in Colorado. This go around, we have …
#community dignity
my grandfather, as Captain (about to get Maj., retired LtCol.) in the US Army wanted to move his family back to the states. he had already been decorated several times over battling in foreign wars, …
#ghettoblaster
stereotypes are observed / prejudices are manufactured. they create a circuitous feedback with many entrances and exits; in other words, they feed each other; and both are valid human tools for survival as long as …
The Next Crazy Idea From The Right That Just Might Work
A disturbing read by Salon’s Paul Rosenberg today in which he he describes the ideas presented in a conference call he was able to eavesdrop on that was led by rising conservative idea-man Charles Kacprowicz. …
#civilrights
people look to the past, “well, we operated on the best knowledge we had at the time, we didn’t know oppression, etc.. was wrong, we’ve matured we’ve grown, we’ve become more compassionate..” romantically almost, like …
Wilford Brimley
Proof that advertising and product placement work: One minute I’m sitting on the sofa watching The Daily Show, hearing Jon Stewart reference Wilford Brimley. The next I’m craving a motherfucking oatmeal cookie. -Alibi Pierce
More Benghazi
The media is jumping on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent report with headlines today screaming the obvious: We could have done more to protect Benghazi, maybe even prevented the attack. Even supposedly liberal stalwarts such …
#no place like utopia
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Google Fixes Most Aggravating Web Feature
True to the headline at Slate, it appears that Google really did just fix one of the most annoying things about web surfing. Few things drive me as crazy as the sudden blast of an …
#experimental music
a musician or artist can create an entire “the new” based off one-notion of one-idea.. an audience needs a fully formed idea to understand ‘the new’ before it can be recognized as “the new” – …