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Late Night Musings
Tolerance: A Culture Killer?
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while, but was unable to find a tactful way of stating the main-point without offending someone. I still can’t. So, I’ll just state my thesis outright: The moment an outside group gains acceptance1, their cultural output, the works that represent them as a group, start to deteriorate.
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Late Night Musings
Finding Bob At Night
I’ve never until now written, or even spoke, a word about Bob Dylan. In fact, I’ve never even listened to him–not in public anyway. I’ve heard him on my headphones and let his messages seep in from my low speakers late, late at night; but when people are around, you won’t hear me either playing […]
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Late Night Musings
Superman, Dead At 70.
The AFP is reporting today that one of America’s most famous immigrants and beloved heroes has passed away, he died after being hit with an era of cynicism, self-doubt, and decay; he was attacked by an age without heroes; he was unable to out-run the speeding bullet of doubt or fly higher than the bird […]
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Micro-Fiction
“The Crap Artist”
05.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIt’s been some time now since Jason Moore lowered his pants and took a shit on a canvas. No, he didn’t do it in public (god forbid!), but looking back, he might have been better off if he did. Because, as it turned out, no one gave a shit that Jason shit on a canvas. […]
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Late Night Musings
Is It Over?
04.29.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments“Give me back the Berlin Wall, Give me Stalin and St.Paul, I’ve seen the future, brother: it is murder.”
–Leonard Cohen
Urban Outfitters may not be the best place to act as a bellwether for American culture, but if chains can’t represent us, what’s left? The store, which sells t-shirts and other light couture, oddly shaped furniture, […] -
Late Night Musings
A Godless Tradition
03.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsNot objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars…
–Walt Whitman
Perhaps it’s fitting that our most important poet and cultural ancestor, who built […] -
On Film
Juno. But not like the city, get it?
01.21.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments“This is no laughing matter!”
–Mac MacGuff (Juno’s father) failing to keep his own sense of laughter in check.Oh, but isn’t it!
I recently had the chance to watch Juno, this season’s hippest, most “it rocks” movie (especially here on the Internet). The film, another masterpiece of the emerging Cinema Ironia, takes place on whatever planet the […]
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