Hot: Simple links that summarize my feelings for this particular pseudo holiday that inspires more jealousy, depression, and ill-will than possibly even Christmas! Wordlab – $122.98 Says I Love You In which the spending habits of the besotted and pussywhipped are discussed. Ectomo – Lupercalia: Happy Fucking Valentine’s Day In which the dubious history of [...]
Hot: Let it never be said that I throw complete disfavor upon arbitrary, stupid holidays based around the martyrdom of one of three possible guys in order to overwrite pagan tradition. Far from it, any excuse to get more color in my dreary winter, and of course free candy, is a good excuse. That said [...]
Hot: Jezebel’s got the pics to prove that in the September issue of the French edition of Vogue, they’ve apparently decided “Devil Worship is the New Black”. The pagan/satanist/wiccan references seem unresearched and over-the-top in a hokey to me, but I certainly wouldn’t consider it offensive. I can’t help but wonder if this shoot will [...]
Hot: So today has been re-affirmed as “Loyalty Day” by our current Commander in Chief. Well… okay, fine, whatever. It’s not as though we don’t already have a number of patriotic-themed holidays that we thoroughly ignore despite these types of reminders. What’s one more? The whole thing smacks of Orwellian doublespeak, to be sure, but [...]
Hot: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ I stumbled across this link earlier. Now, I’ve seen a few PETA-based propaganda booths in my day. Much like the “Truth” campaign, they’re big fans of large, symbolic, sometimes angry displays of protest against things they believe are wrong. While they might be passionate about what they do, and may be – in [...]
Hot: Thanks to the magic of RSS, and the writings of Wired’s copy chief, Tony Long (aka The Luddite), I’ve discovered a major media political analyst whose statements I actually find worthwhile during this time of discussion on the events of September 11th 2001. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/ Keith Olbermann, of MSNBC news of all places, has a [...]
