Category: .

Don’t read this article.  You think it’s going to be about Candwich, the “sandwich in a can” that has been ripping up the Internet tubes with memes-of-fire? More so, it’s an exploration of the dark side of language and how a certain word has lobotomized all of us consumers: Product. Candwich is a sandwich product,… Continue reading Candwich’s Even Darker Side: “Product”

I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion’s AV Club is that The Scar isn’t mentioned at all.  Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like “stunning” are… Continue reading China Miéville: “The Scar” Opened the Top of My Head

The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best thing about Emily Shur’s photo essay is its title:  Nature Calls. But come on, I’ve got this one beat.  For years, my parents in Medford, Oregon have had a church down the street… Continue reading Hidden Cell Phone Towers? Try To Beat This One.

I cannot get this out of my head.  I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did not… Continue reading The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg’s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal

Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.”