Category: Commentary
Grimes & Lana Del Rey Have The Kind of Conversation Overheard in the Paid For by Parents SoHo Lofts of NYU Kids
Although Grimes was the opener for Lana Del Rey for parts of her 2015 Endless Summer Tour, it doesn’t seem like the two would have [Read More…]
OK Snowflake
We get it. Gen Z is about to inherit the earth, if it lasts long enough (even though millennials haven’t exactly had their place in [Read More…]
“Removed”: On the “Statement” About Phone Obsession and Its Correlating Cause of Disconnection from Humanity
A recently viral art project–fine, let’s deem it “series” because “art project” has a tinge of the belittling to it–from Eric Pickersgill called “Removed” has [Read More…]
The Misunderstood Critic in the Age of Celebrity Worship, Or: The Critic Hasn’t Written the Lines You’d Like to Hear, Or: Ann Powers to Lana Del Rey: Bitch You Ain’t Joni Mitchell
Something happened long ago when celebrities were finally allowed the same democratizing outlet as every other plebe: “the tool” of social media. It “empowered” them [Read More…]
The Implications of Quentin Tarantino Having A Child
Just when you thought there was for once, at least one man in this world who could be content enough to ride on the laurels [Read More…]
Attempt at Changing Date of Halloween Celebrations Yet Another Sign of Pussy Times
Although this is ironically the most harrowing time in human existence, with the seeming constant threat of extinction looming once, you know, the food shortage [Read More…]
The American (Double) Standard of Consequence
With the wave of two coinciding incidents involving Americans abroad (for yes, A$AP Rocky is, at the end of the day, just another American)–namely, Europe, [Read More…]
The Corporation That Sold A Gun to Mass Shoot Itself
The corporation will sell the noose to hang itself. If it means profits, so be it. And it’s all a variation on a quote often [Read More…]
We Are the Tools of Mass Communication, Not the Other Way Around: On Arbitrary Social Media Blackouts
While the social media blackout of July 3rd, 2019 (which makes it somehow sound almost as historic as the literal blackout of July 13-14, 1977 [Read More…]
The Ease With Which People Adopt “Being Californian”
Even more than New York (City, for the rest of the state is rather nothing to write home about unless you’re Washington Irving), California represents [Read More…]
