Paparazzo: Episode Four

Announcing Episode Four of Paparazzo, a radio show about culture broadcasting from Paris, France. Endless, undiminished apologies all around. The “caucasian skin” reference, along with this entire enterprise, is weird and bad and sounds wrong. I continue to be unable and/or refuse to to learn to edit audio, or myself. I also continue to use [...]

Paparazzo: Episode Three

Announcing Episode Three of Paparazzo, a radio show about culture broadcasting from Paris, France. I don’t know how to edit audio. I know that Mogadishu is in Somalia. I have permanently damaged my brain. [Previously: Episode One, Episode Two.]

Paparazzo: Episode Two

Announcing Episode Two of Paparazzo, a radio show about culture broadcasting from Paris, France. This episode is extremely lazy. I could apologize over and over, but what would be the point? [Download Episode Two.] [Listen to Episode One.]

Blogfarm, blogfuture, blogheart, blogtown, blogtrain, blogcap, blogcane, blogclone, blogclown, blogstop, blogpound, blogtrap, blogcork, blogcow, blogcrown

…anyway, this morning as I was walking into the office, I am Jewish, I am “all traveled out,” not going anywhere for the holidays, what about you, skeleton-crew people in the office are doing LOTS of shouting stuff out to each other, feeling their oats, it’s OK, it’s kind of bugging me, I do it [...]

I have a cold, this is a blog,

there’s work I’m supposed to be doing but I’m home sick, I have a cold, I’ve been clicking on lots of things, maybe I will go back to sleep soon, it’s 8 p.m., but rill quick just wanted to say via @magicmolly I discovered the internet writing of Lauren Bans, who it seems like if [...]

dish-nug

If one travels deep enough into the interior of an inside joke, its limits dissolve. The joke’s boundaries recede and become as distant and penetrable as the atmosphere of the Earth. Alfe liberates its viewers and launches them into an untethered and euphoric inner space. —Quailty Norwheast, The Emotional’s Guide to the Internet Videos (forthcoming [...]

Cornea Lucida (Orange Julius)

SUPER FAT DUDE IN A HUGE RUSH: I don’t have time for this conversation, what do you want DIMINUTIVE FEMININE IMP: I just wanted to know how you felt today SFDIAHR: I couldn’t really say DFI: What about now? SFD: Nothing has changed. I’m the same. Less busy now DFI: Does “bumble-bee tuna” have real [...]

roarin up the gulch

Apologies for this. Motto: “I’ve gotta be me.” “Make Roarin’ Up the Gulch your ringtone!” –XLR8R Magazine

grumpus

BLOGGING IS A POINTLESS ACTIVITY///////////// HERE ARE MY POINTLESS THOUGHTS ON BLOGS////////////////// A GIANT SANS-SERIF WHO CARES DESCENDS UPON THE CITY, CRUSHING EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT AN ADORABLE ANIMAL OR AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN M.A. ORTHOFER’s UNSWERVING GROUCHINESS ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOK COVERAGE ALWAYS MAKES ME HAPPY. I’M NOT SURE WHY. PLEASE “STAY TUNED” FOR A [...]

Eros and Pedagogy

Terrifying Internet weekend here. I can’t stop. This is the most intense it’s ever been. It’ll be the same thing today. This amusing James Wolcott blog post reintroduced me to Cristina Nehring, whom I hadn’t heard about since I gave a presentation in college inspired by her 2001 Harper’s piece “The Higher Yearning.” (In retrospect, [...]