Category: Commentary
Europe and An Inherent Non-Predilection for “Sanitization”
Europe has so long been associated with words like “earthy” and “real” (otherwise known as: life outside of America), that it’s difficult to imagine it [Read More…]
The Pervasiveness of the Vaccine in America Has Merely Confirmed the Country’s Belief That Suffering (“Too Long”) is For Suckers
It’s among the many ironies of the U.S. that the “American work ethic” is one punctuated by long hours but little actual output (or much [Read More…]
The Zone: Closing Ceremony for Earth
On January 31st, 2020, The Zone, an interactive Britney Spears experience in a 30,000-square-foot repurposed K-Mart opened to the public. The brainchild of Jeff Delson [Read More…]
Elizabeth Hurley’s Mom Is the New Mrs. George
Even though it is, by now, in this epoch called “Thirst Trap,” the norm that daughters wield their mothers for the purpose of heightening their [Read More…]
Kinda Bougie For Santa to Assume Everyone Has a Fireplace
The old myth never dies. Not even in pandemic times. Santa can really only deliver his goods through a chimney, which means, naturellement, a fireplace. [Read More…]
Brad Pitt and Kurt Cobain Amnesia: Harry Styles Isn’t The Only Bloke To Have Donned A Dress, Nor The First To Have Rekindled the Double Standard For Straight Men Freely “Playing With” Gender
It is mainly, of course, because of the “human stain” far right commentators that are Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro that anything tends to get [Read More…]
Cardi B’s Divorce From Offset Was Written Plainly On The Wall With “Be Careful”
What feels like long ago now, in a magical time called 2018, Cardi B put out another single from her debut album, Invasion of Privacy. [Read More…]
The Falling Man Is the Visual Manifestation of the Shit Sandwich or Shit Cereal Paradox
Amid all the images of destruction and carnage documented on September 11, 2001, one that remains, to this day, a standout of the atrocities is [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
“The Junk Mail” Shows Why Everyone Suddenly So Concerned About USPS Now Shouldn’t Have Been A Dick To It Before
How ironic, looking back, that the founding of the Post Office (the only governmental agency specifically mentioned within the U.S. Constitution) should stem from the [Read More…]