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On Free To Be... Straight White Males

@MikeBarthel "So is The Internet the Real Thing, the place where the social mores that enforce privilege are broken down and we can be honest with each other"

If Reddit is any indication, nope

Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:30 am 0

On President Endorses States' Rights

People overcome with significance of man's personal and exceedingly reserved approval for thing

Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:15 pm 0

On President Endorses States' Rights

@Clarence Rosario We fucking elected a black president, dude. The ball's gone through the earth and out the other side

Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:12 pm 0

On The Kid Who Hung Out With Jesus

That's a really fascinating article, but from the headline I was expecting... Well, something about Clapton's "Tears In Heaven"

Am I terrible?

Posted on April 28, 2012 at 4:15 am 0

On In Honor of "Revenge," A Brief History of TV's Off-Screen Hookups

There are probably at least half a dozen SNL hookups

Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:21 pm 0

On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy

@brideoffrankenstein Brian McGreevy is Frankenstein?!!

Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:40 pm 2

On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy

@Ham Snadwich I would assume "bourgeois" here is code for "soft" or "feminine", or at least the type that boys like this detest. There's a certain tradition of intellectual machismo that the guy is clearly attempting to tap into, hence the similarity to a random sample of Reddit comments. Swap out "sentimentality" for "superstition" and you've got a garden variety Bright atheist. Swap it for "politics" and you've got a Randroid.

It's a shame, I think the ideal being strived for is Hitch but what's coming out is Palahnuik minus irony.

Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:56 pm 0

On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy

As someone who is also uninterested in the idea of bourgeois sentimentality, this is of great interest to me.

I'll check out this guy's book, even though he talks like a Reddit subforum made flesh. I am eternally deprived of decent horror fiction

Posted on April 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm 2

On Michael Fassbender Does An Excellent Robot

@skahammer For a film? I don't know. ARGs can get pretty impressive. I think Cloverfield had one. The one I remember was from... The mid-'00s, back when viral marketing was a hot new thing. It wasn't a movie, actually, it was an album - Nine Inch Nails, I think. They had at least a dozen different websites with hidden codes, and a phone number you could call to hear garbled messages from "the future". It was essentially Myst on the web. I think they also did things like fill USB drives with leaked tracks and cryptic in-"game" messages and then deliberately leave them on restroom floors at venues during shows.

It was impressive enough that HBO and BBC America jointly bought the rights to turn it into a TV show. Don't know if that's ever going to happen.

Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm 0

On Michael Fassbender Does An Excellent Robot

Alien is basically my favorite movie so I'm simultaneously jazzed and hesitant about this film.

There's just something inherently skin-crawly about the androids in that universe. It's the milky viscous blood, I think. The first David video with the white cubes (during the "unpackaging") freaked my shit out for a good long while. They're like... tofu. Plus something about certain geometric patterns just terrifies my reptile brain. Honeycombs are the worst but the cubes are pretty bad.

Wonder of Mike is gonna hang robodong in this one.

Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:18 pm 2