Category
perturbation
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04.01.08B-Rock and roll.I suppose the initial narrative of the Democratic primary season--black folk verses white women folk--was becoming tiresome to the media, so they are now looking to the political leanings of mediocre MCs like 50 cent ("He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!'") and DMX ("Barack Obama?...That ain't that nigga's name.") as a measure of public opinion; in an age when LOLNIGGERS is par for the YouTube comments course, and when there are legitimate and hilarious intersects between the hip-hop communities and Obama's campaign, it's a bit scary to see ...
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03.22.08WEB-WHORE. AND PROUD OF IT.As nauseating as it sounds, I cannot stand non-web-2.0 sites; I initially chalked it up to a design issue, but I now realize that is much, much more--I am lost without the ontology of tags (and the promise of emergent meta-data!), the dearth of read/writedness (I do not fear the new online colectivism! I embrace it! Whole-heartedly, even!), superflous page-loads (eff synchronicity and hand me the AJAX!), and un-open formats--and, well, you know: there's also the fact that serif fonts, unrounded corners, and unmuted, harsh colours make me want to stab myself in the eye1. Alright, so maybe it is just ...
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03.04.08A lesson, learned.So this is what a professional troll looks like, and this is how they are properly fed, and this is how they keep trolling, and this is how the cycle continues1...for your consideration, my friends, Charlotte Allen: the philistine's Maureen Dowd--but you know, it's well worth it when gleamingly enlightened diamonds like this make their way out of the rough. Women hating women-hating women. Heh.↩
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02.20.08Erm…It's been a while since freshman year of high school, but this cloying New York Times article about The Great Gatsby as inspiration for immigrant youth is egregiously inaccurate, not to mention downright annoying1; it could have been a marginally interesting article about contemporary reinterpretations of the American dream, but instead settled for romanticizing immigrants who romanticize our good ol' U.S. of A.--a myth, I think, whose time has come to expire--based on a embarrassingly pigheaded reading of the aforementioned book. . .shame on you, NYT...shame. Naturally, I'm not the only one who noticed.↩
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02.11.08Sure we can, but we probably won’t.The first, last, and only person to whom I showed the treacly Will.i.am (do not phunk with his heart) Yes. We. Can.1 video had the most bizarre reaction: he felt neither unduly inspired nor unduly dismissive, he just kept asking me who the different celebrities were and twenty seconds before it ended shrugged, turned away, and declared, "I don't recognize any of these people," a sentiment at which I felt quite aghast2; I didn't even consider that its validity as a political statement/art/campaigning tool/wev would be based on the relative percentages of A-, B- and C-listness of the people ...
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02.04.08No, it’s not just a game.Gosh, my year-long hiatus from spider solitaire was much needed, but my return to the game has been devastating; I never expect to do well on the "hard" level, but I thought myself at least competent on the "medium" level -- alas, my previous card-playing heuristics must have escaped me because I am now finding myself stumped far more often than before and - with great dismay - taking my stats down with me; in the past I have taken the game to be far more serious than it actually is (deleting it from the start menu, for example, in ...