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What Women Want is a Punch in the Face
All this mock outrage over Mel Gibson really pisses me off. Nobody cares about that woman he beat, What’s-Her-Face McTeethmissing. Sure, the whole damn thing is a tragic case of a rich asshole succeeding in spite of what we’d like to believe about success’s prerequisites, but there’s nothing everyday people can do about it other [...]
I’ve figured out how Twilight and Football are the same
Girls supporting Football is like guys supporting Twilight: most of them are just doing it to cull favor with the opposite sex by demonstrating acceptance for their coping mechanisms. Genuine enjoyment of the sport/fiction among the opposite gender of the typical audience is rare.
This is because both are usually vapid and bland for uninitiated [...]
Now if you’ll excuse me: I have a mosquito to kill.
The room is laptop-lit, and the October air is friendly. If I dangle my chillum from my knuckles in front of the window, I can’t help but adjust my fist to slide the tip in line with one of the twin tangerine dots of light marking the other side of the street. The lights [...]
He could surpass Sublime. Dub FX deserves to take the world by storm.
So the first time I see Australian Ben Stanford, aka Dub FX, perform I’m sitting in a darkened basement and StumbleUpon is dragging its internet-hoe in sad memetic trenches along the seafloor of Youtube and he has appeared amidst several extreme America’s Funniest Home Videos rejects. He is nearly stumbled away from, but his talent [...]
The Half-Life of Art: Not Quantifiable, But Observable
Art is inextricably linked to medium in that if you attempt to separate an art from its medium, you must in some way translate it. Translation may preserve the original spirit of a work of art, but it certainly does not preserve the artwork in its original form. This is a fine concept, because translation [...]
