On "Hallelujah" Gets Enlisted in the War for a Christian Christmas
P.S. We all have horns, Barthel. We just retract them. Don't let her tell you different.
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On "Hallelujah" Gets Enlisted in the War for a Christian Christmas
Wouldn't the many and myriad ways in which "Hallelujah" has been used and abused attest to some sort of successful universality? It's one thing to parse the lyrics and get at the precise meaning of the song, but if the song itself evokes some sort of gestalt, hasn't it succeeded artistically? If the more Old Testament-y yearning (with all attendant sexuality and fucked-upness involved) has been stripped clean into a New Testament-y yearning (sexless and focused on the eternal boy-band-esque J.C. those Protestants seem to love), isn't it more a matter of a song of yearning being adapted by whoever listens to it? Could a Zoroastrian find that same strand of universal yearning and filter it through whatever spiritual filter they have?
/dick joke
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On Many of Your Favorite Bloggers are Fake
The real question is: can Emily Gould somehow turn this into a 10k New York Times Magazine article about how blogging like totally sucks?
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On Many of Your Favorite Bloggers are Fake
Whatever her persona, her writing was always terribly uninteresting.
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On What We Need More Of Is Guns In Airports
The South: being assholes about federalism since 1789.
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On An Analysis of Twitter Activism
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN
HE CAME DOWN FROM HIS TOWER TO RUB PALMS WITH ME AND I WON I WON I WON EVERYTHING IN THE WHOLE BLASTED FUCKING WORLD ABOUT STUFF.
Jesus H. Christ. I ostensibly agree with this person, and yet I hate them beyond reason.
HE CAME DOWN. CONGRATULATIONS.