Archive for April, 2009
Swine Flu Barbecue
I hate disease scares. First it was SARS, then it was the bird flu, now it’s the swine flu… and hey, even though garden variety influenza is deadlier than the special versions, it’s familiar so it’s not as scary. Even a recognizable portion of the Mexican population realizes this. With that in mind, I think [...]
User-Created and User-Filtered Content’s Double-Edge
Due to technological advances that make producing art cost a fraction of what it once did, the internet is literally flooded with the works of unrepresented private individuals, whom Time dubbed person(s) of the year in 2006. Now that distribution and production costs are approaching zero, art only requires two things: time and a willing [...]
Soda As It Was Intended: An HFCS-Free Lovefest
One of my rare bits of snobbery is that I absolutely dislike high fructose corn syrup in my drinks. I will drink it sometimes when other options are not available and I want more flavor than water, but on the whole I prefer to skip high fructose corn syrup and go for cane sugar. Sugar [...]
Teddy Faley - Apple Juice
My memories involving Teddy Faley are of scattered brief encounters. Nine years ago Teddy’s in his darkened bedroom at his parents’ house experimenting with a sequencer; building beats. A year later I’m at a park and one of Teddy’s friends is attempting to chop a bee in half with a samurai sword like it’s normal. [...]
The R-Word
My earliest experience with racism was in the second grade. I made a new friend, and for the purposes of this article his name was Nelson. Nelson invited me to come over to his apartment after school to play Double Dragon on his Nintendo. There were older kids clustered around in the kitchen when we [...]
