December 2009
16 posts
Girls from the suburbs on trains
Serious conundrum. Why do high school suburban girls ride the train into the city? Honestly. You are not cultured. You are not cool. Seeing you sitting there in your North Face and daintly holding your new Coach purse mother bought you for Christmas… You make me sick. Don’t you just look great. But you know, those Converse make you so damn edgy! The 4 inches of make up on your face...
Dec 28th
Dec 22nd
12 Types of Hipster
These three articles outline the 12 categories of hipster. I must say, they are quite thorough. http://stillsearching.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/types-of-hipsters-part-one/ http://stillsearching.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/types-of-hipsters-part-two/ http://stillsearching.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/types-of-hipsters-part-three/
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
“A great art critic is the last thing any civilization gets. You start with a...”
– Peter Schjeldahl, Chief art critic for The New Yorker (Seven Days in the Art World)
Dec 21st
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Reverence for the Past
Why do people keep things around that are old? Really, it makes no sense. If something has “historical value” we decide to let it hang around indefinitely, and we will even go out of our way to maintain said entity. People want to develop; to build, expand, and to advance. But yet we use time and resources on keeping artifacts of the past alive. How much effort is put into keeping...
Dec 21st
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The Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore, MTV’s new show, has quickly gained a cult like following. Yours truly included. This presents us with today’s conundrum: can one still have self-respect and watch this mess? It all depends on how you watch the show. There are likely some “guidos” that would like nothing more than to live this life, and that’s a problem for American society. Guidos...
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Capitalism, Now That's a Conundrum →
So Microsoft ended its battle with the EU’s antitrust body/blah blah blah… What the real issue is here is the contradictory nature of capitalism.  Competition entails trying to eliminate all opposition in order to control the market, thus securing more money by leaving no alternatives (at least in a simple way of looking at it). But yet if all companies acted this way, there would be...
Dec 16th
Octopus+Coconut=Invincible →
Who knew that an octopus could effectively utilize a coconut for protection? Humanity better look out, because there may just be an army of juggernaut octopi looking for revenge very, very soon.
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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A Lesson in Proper Stereotyping
If you’re reading this, you probably fall to the left side of this chart; and that’s a good thing. This simple fact will allow you to effectively judge the majority of human beings on this planet.  Pretty cool, huh? So what do all these labels mean? The most important, and most dangerous, label is t-shirt. This is no elusive beast, but it’s best to understand a t-shirt by...
Dec 11th