February 2009
55 posts
For those of you who wear skinny jeans.
As a final word on this ridiculousness (for the 2.5 of you who care): I don’t think there is anything wrong with dressing up and going out to ahhht pahhhties and being drunk and fashionable and having fun. But when you do these things (the same things everyone in our demographic does) and try to align them with some sort of genius or talent and then smear it all over the internet,...
So this happened.
JC: Ok, that's nice. But why are you steering clear of the elephant in the room: Maaaxxx Steeeeeele. Whadya think of his blog post about you???
Me: Oh god, did that even warrant a response? The guy is so lame. The only way he could have known about my blog post in the first place is if he constantly Googles himself OR has Google Alerts which speaks volumes about his narcissism. His blog post basically said "Don't call me a pretentious trust fund hipster who tries way too hard, when I'm really just a run-of-the-mill pretentious hipster who tries waaaaaay too hard.."
Why we love the machines we shouldn't. →
I am wrought with guilt every time I glance at the bloated corpse of my old G4 iBook. Finally some commiseration.
“I think getting more than 5 responses to a comment is some kind of rite of...”
– Betty, on becoming a Gawker commenter.
WatchHercules & Love Affair Live on a Brooklyn Rooftop pt. 1
[ 1. You Belong 2. True False / Fake Real 3. Athene ]
WatchHercules & Love Affair Live on a Brooklyn Rooftop pt. 2
[ 4. Hercules Theme ]
All of my favorite Tumblrs are being...
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone — Hot Boyz...
Courtship 2.0
You start to type something on iChat but then you see that he is typing and you stop. Then he stops, and you both realize what just happened and say, “haha.” (tylercoates)
Music has become so right it's wrong; it must... →
When I say “so right it’s wrong” I mean that professionalism and production technology have made it very easy to achieve a certain kind of gloss and power — I call it “easy power”. There are rock and pop colleges now where students learn the accepted and acceptable way to engineer and produce and play and sing on records. These people are all so right...
The anxious interval.
This is a little speculation about cultural cycles of revival and neglect. This is about how the present feels about particular parts of the culture of the past. Have a look at the diagram below:
That’s a model of how I see cultural attention being paid. Let’s work backwards down the timeline. We start with the present. The present: Not difficult to define. The present is now....
N.A.S.A. — Spacious Thoughts (Feat. Tom...
“No, I don’t blog about Shepard Fairey.”
– Me, to the rude, eavesdropping woman who chimed in as I attempted to explain my blog to a friend at Kinko’s.
Kader Attia, Ghost (2007).
I want to like this piece, the use of aluminum is amazing, but there’s something really weird to me about depicting Muslim women as empty shells, particularly a man depicting Muslim women as empty shells. (via sexartandpolitics)
I should have added some context (I’ve gotten so lazy with this blog lately, as evidenced by my rapidly dwindling list of...
