• Overthinking It
Analysis/deconstruction of popcultural objects. Recommended posts: The Real (Symbolic, and Imaginary) Ghostbusters (which analyzes the film in terms of Lacan’s notions of the Real), Bon Jovi: Livin’ on a Prayer and Music Theory, and I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger.
• The Vigilant Citizen
The problem with conspiracy [...]
In Opposition of 4/20 Celebration (a post from D’Alliance, a blog from the Drug Policy Alliance Network; a friend who works for the organization posted this on the twitters. Maybe don’t read it at work if your boss is touchy about drugs.)
Ah, the 80s. Our hair was big, our guitar solos were shredding (and usually played by people with big hair), and our drug war was shiny and new. D.A.R.E. was the hip approach to schoolin’ the kids about the reefer madness; my school participated in it during the program’s inaugural year. Unfortunately, studies have since [...]
The Schopenhauer-on-LSD-sounding title of this post is also the unlikeliest line to ever appear in a low-budget comedy film. Ninja Bachelor Party, co-written and co-starring Bill Hicks, was filmed over the course of a decade and was completed in 1991. I’d never seen it, but we have the youtubes now, so yay!
Bill Hicks is [...]
Super-douchey: Should your wife have guy-friends?
Helpful and awesome: A guide to LA’s best taco trucks
When I’m in charge, I’ll keep a bunch of the states. But I also wanna make some new ones, too.
You know when you’re driving up the California coast, and you hit that spot where the air is suddenly breathable again? I’m going to partition that off, call it North Califoregon, and fucking run the country [...]
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Cheney’s cyborg legs must need a software update, because he got rolled out of his hellpit in a wheelchair. He looks so much like the Big Lebowski that I was waiting for him to start shouting, “The bums will always lose!”
The other guy got airlifted out on a helicopter:
I love how the Washington Monument and [...]
I know it’s deeply uncool, like liking Dave Eggers. But, it’s time to come clean: I really enjoy Shepard Fairey’s sensibilities. His early stickers (which he describes as an “experiment in phenomenology“) were all over the place when I lived in San Diego off-and-on during the Nineties, so slapping one on my car when I [...]
The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word “free” to a note so high that nobody could reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. (Tony Kushner, Angels In America)
Fuck “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The all-time best “patriotic song” is Woody [...]