On MGMT, "Congratulations"
I was thinking of the Kristen Bell video, too. Also, there's Charlie White's photographs from a few years back (sample: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/05/10/garden/10whiteCA06ready.html).
Posted on August 25, 2010 at 6:39 pm
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On Bugs!
I especially love the moth and yellow jacket drawings.
Posted on August 22, 2010 at 11:15 pm
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On Notes from Mexico City: Software Piracy as a Measure of Societal Progress
This is a cool dispatch and all, but I'm curious about how this joke sandwich works. Do you hand it to someone, and then they realize it's just fake? Is that the joke? If that's case, I think it might be equally funny, though time-consuming, to make someone a really terrible-tasting sandwich. You know, one that tastes like plastic.
Posted on August 18, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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On Future Fatigue: Gary Shteyngart's Attack on the Young
I enjoyed this review, and it brings up a worry (at least to me) that every piece of jittery sci-fi-tinged sarcasm seems to bring up:
"This all scans as comedy of a broad stripe, labored in its bid for scary silliness even as it tackles low-hanging fruit, as addictive and disposable as the entertainments it lampoons."
How to get over the attraction of this kind of low-hanging fruit?
Sometimes I want to read only about cloned fast food employees and different kinds of neural iPhone apps, but other times I think the opening paragraph of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash pretty much wrapped it up and finished off the genre.