On "The Arts Are Like An External Immune System"
I love Lynda Barry so much. Her comics made my childhood between 9 and 14 intelligible, or at least less isolating. She is, truly, Funk Queen of the USA.
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On Some Podcasts That May Amuse
Agree, Maron's WTF podcast is great. It's something anyone with the remotest interest in comedy, especially stand-up, history should listen to.
Also, listen to "The Bugle," for fans of elaborately bad, British puns.
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On Some Podcasts That May Amuse
For people who just want the Scharpling and Wurster bits, I think there's a separate podcast of them, "the Best of the Best Show."
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On Inside Yayoi Kusama's Magic Box
I don't know if this outs me as a philistine, but her "infinity nets" paintings make great desktop wallpaper.
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On What If The Hipster Grifter Were A Cracker?
I've met a lot of Asian women over the years who confessed to me that they're into Jewish guys. Should we make this into a "thing," too?
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On Social scientists discover link economy.
I wonder if they realized they stumbled on a gold mine of marketing data for the 13-24 female self-loathing shut-in demo.
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On Shut up, bacon.
All right, this is taking late-'70s nostalgia a bit too far.
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On By the end of the day you'll be married to Iman.
Now that Quentin's gone, who are the stately homos of England these days?
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On A Fond Goodbye To GeoCities
Wherever will I park my neons-on-black Shannon Hoon tribute site?
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On Big Website Used To Be So Awesome But Totally Sucks Now, Say Cool Dudes
A "profitable but pathologically undemanding audience" is what every every goods and/or services provider has wanted, ever, since the beginning of commerce. The gavaging (had to look that up, thanks for the heartwrenching photo, Wikipedia!) is the part that might be new, but I dunno, something about TV?