Someone is screaming sell-out, by defacing street art in NY. But is it cool? Is it art when you destroy art? Hmmm…I’m thinking of a brigade of nihilist dadas…interesting.
In recent years, some of these young artists have been embraced by galleries, museums and collectors, and there are those who fear that the practice might become [...]

Yesterday, browsing through the philosophy section in a bookstore, I noticed some peculiar titles: Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer , and The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless. I knew that these pop-culture philosophy hybrid instructional books had become [...]

Chuck Norris, perhaps the biggest GOP celebrity-clown since Ted Nugent, filled in for Hannity on Fox News the other night. Could it be that Fox is forsaking all appearances of responsible journalism for self-parodying performance art? The joke could be on us.
All I can say about Chuck’s website is that all websites are better with [...]

You know those sneakers that the little kids have that have plastic wheels hidden in them? And why don’t they make those for adults? After all, I’m still the guy that exits the grocery store riding my shopping cart like a chariot through the parking lot.

Finally watched Idiocracy, Mike Judge’s uber-satire of a dumb-as-rocks devolved human civilization 500 years in the future. I had been warned that the movie wasn’t that great, so had low expectations. Quite the opposite story of Children of Men, which carried the burden of so much critical acclaim you almost had to be disappointed within [...]

Atlanta cops are on a real tear recently. After lying to get a warrant for a no-knock drug raid, in which a dangerous drug beast in the form of a 92 year old woman was gunned down, they terrorize and arrest an oxford historian for jaywalking. Fucking jaywalking sting! Brilliant! So needed in this [...]

I’ve always dug the culture jamming ethos, as bratty and hypocritical as it can sometimes be, because it’s so often really fucking clever. Nothing blows my dress up like good satire. Jean-Christian Bourcart gets it right with his incredibly impressive guerrilla art photography project of images of Iraqi dead projected on unsuspecting suburban houses and [...]

South Park Republican Libertarian. That’s more like it. Sometime during the last few years South Park has become my animated comedy of choice, taking the place of the Simpsons even. The cultural skewering is just so brutally and beautifully dead on, and the man-child within me cackles heartily at the potty humor. [...]

My first Halloweeners ever.

Jack Black’s anti-piracy “PSA.”