Category: Commentary
Altamont versus Fyre Festival: Two Music History Catastrophes That Show How Flaccid the Millennial Generation Is
It’s easy to be a self-hating millennial. Shit, it’s easy to be a self-hating anything. That is, if you have any appropriate sense of shame. [Read More…]
Talking About A Woman I Admire on International Women’s Day: Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
As most of us assemble here on the internet to honor International Women’s Day, it goes without saying that, quite frankly, there are too many [Read More…]
Starbucks Brings Its Taint to Italy
For a long time, Italy was a perfect, untouchable paradise. A beacon of how to do things right when it came to rejecting the presence [Read More…]
Like Taylor Swift, Lena Dunham’s Brand of Feminism Is All About Self-Promotion
While we might be a generation more jaded than any other that preceded us, it is incredible that so many are still unable to see [Read More…]
Sean Penn’s El Chapo Interview: An Exercise in Self-Aggrandizement on Both Sides
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if one encounters one of the most wanted men in the world and simply decides to interview him instead [Read More…]
We’re All on The Truman Show Now
At the time of its release in 1998, Peter Weir’s The Truman Show seemed like almost an impossible concept to fathom. After all, before the [Read More…]
Et tu, Roma?
This annoying early twenty-first century phenomenon to liken everything to something else has gotten most out of hand with the necessity people and magazines feel [Read More…]
Hermès Prostrates Itself Before Apple
What is the world coming to when Hermès, the pinnacle of high fashion and luxury, feels obliged to enter into a partnership with Apple, the most [Read More…]
No One Can Play Lucille Ball Except Lucille Ball
The surfeit of biopics in the world of film never ceases. Just when one thinks that producers have exhausted every possible major icon to sully [Read More…]
James Franco’s Obsession With Fetishizing Damaged Goods
In the wake of James Franco’s doucherific story, “Bungalow 89,” “loosely based” on his encounter with Lindsay Lohan at the Chateau Marmont, one would have [Read More…]