Steal your WIFi, people.
Neal Pollack on the non-transforming role writers have in society. “Writers get less respect in this country than people who eat live bugs on television for money!”
John Leland charting the history of Hip, with a not very hip soul patch.
Though it grabs ideas from the bottom of the economic ladder, hip […]

Enjoy raging at inanimate objects? Yelling at traffic? Audibly sighing while waiting in a long grocery line or cursing at vending machines? Here’s Mind Hacks, on the elevator syndrome:
It’s a common illusion that if you are in a hurry for the elevator you can make it come quicker by pressing the button harder. Or […]

Well, I couldn’t resist posting this. Why not? It feels good. Bring on the Culture War, baby!!
CONFESSIONS OF A CULTURAL ELITIST:
So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn’t those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen […]

The false protocol of the gratuitous encore. Why?
I take it that at some time a music act was applauded and cheered so vehemently that the encore was born, at once an instinctive response to overwhelming support. But since then it has become institutionalized, standardized, expected and absolutely dreaded by anyone who attends music […]

It’s not the end of the world. That will come with much less notice. It’s just momentary setback, and in the long run perhaps not even a significant one. Our stonefaced golem known as KERRY just couldn’t convince enough people he was the real savior, and they opted for the tried and true evil […]

In case you didn’t get an email with this (thanks Alex):

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is upon us. So there. You have a month to procrastinate and not write a novel. Or will you prove something finally?

South Park couldn’t be more fitting this week. I know, I know…such cynicism, tsk, tsk. I must hate America. Or myself. Or both of us.
808 Douche and Turd:
When PETA demonstrates against the use of a cow as South Park Elementary’s mascot, the student body is forced to choose a new one. As the election […]