The reason people don’t make paintings or sculptures of angels playing trumpets in exaltation of God’s Creation is because people stopped hearing it, not because it stopped being played. People talk about this “Glory of God” shit like its fucking over or something. I mean everybody acts like there was some fucking perfect cheesymonkey “Golden [...]
Category Archives: Pop Culture
Don’t tell attack anyone
February 27, 2007 – 11:04 am
I am going to start a band called The Reference Points. Does anybody want to be in it with me? I am going to play either the lifeitar or the perceptophone, possibly both. We are going to play experience rock, that is, the bedrock of experience. We are going to be bigger than Mohammed, but [...]
Incoming Friend Request: Approve?
January 9, 2007 – 8:37 am
A man in a white suit stands on a perfectly square platform in the middle of the desert. The dark blue sky of a setting sun recedes to the horizon behind him. He is walking into a light. The light is the light of an old-fashioned film projector. The man carries in his hand a [...]
CNN Will See An End
January 3, 2007 – 7:10 pm
Fact and fiction are irrelevant to the Google AI algorithm. You will get served with (semi) relevant ads whether or not you believe in the factual accuracy of the text that you are ingesting. Perhaps there is an important lesson buried in here.
I have had a problem ever since I was a kid [...]
Douglas Rushkoff Interview
January 1, 2007 – 12:00 am
To kick off the new year, here is an interview I completed recently with noted author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. I first got into Rushkoff’s writing and analysis of pop culture way back in high school (whoo - almost ten years ago now!) when I stumbled upon a copy of Media Virus. It immediately [...]
Paul Westerberg’s Left Hand
December 27, 2006 – 9:27 pm
Paul Westerberg put a screwdriver through his left hand while “trying to get some wax out of a candle.†Weird part is that Reuters started reporting this based only on the hearsay of a blogger who’s friends with Westerberg. From what I can tell – at least in their early stories – they had no [...]
