Category: Commentary
Whoever Started the Trend of Proving the Extent of the Gargantuan Celebrity Ego With Fake Italian Balcony Videos is an Unwitting Genius
Maybe whoever started the trend was merely a bored fan of [insert pop star’s name here], and it wasn’t intended as some grand statement about [Read More…]
Madonna Gives Dubious Moving Advice
Madonna is one of those people who undeniably prides herself on being good at everything. And, for the most part, she is. But, on the [Read More…]
Putting A Moratorium on “Barracuda” to Connote Female Empowerment
In the same way it appears to be a requirement to use New Order’s “Blue Monday” to indicate it’s the 80s (most recently manifest in [Read More…]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: What A Woman Making A Successful Business Out of Cropping Your Ex Out of Photos Says About Our Society (& A Certain Generation In Particular)
Staying true to the realm of things that go viral, a woman offering to make profitable use of her Photoshop skills by way of cropping [Read More…]
Grimes & Lana Del Rey Have The Kind of Conversation Overheard in the Paid For by Parents SoHo Lofts of NYU Kids
Although Grimes was the opener for Lana Del Rey for parts of her 2015 Endless Summer Tour, it doesn’t seem like the two would have [Read More…]
OK Snowflake
We get it. Gen Z is about to inherit the earth, if it lasts long enough (even though millennials haven’t exactly had their place in [Read More…]
“Removed”: On the “Statement” About Phone Obsession and Its Correlating Cause of Disconnection from Humanity
A recently viral art project–fine, let’s deem it “series” because “art project” has a tinge of the belittling to it–from Eric Pickersgill called “Removed” has [Read More…]
The Misunderstood Critic in the Age of Celebrity Worship, Or: The Critic Hasn’t Written the Lines You’d Like to Hear, Or: Ann Powers to Lana Del Rey: Bitch You Ain’t Joni Mitchell
Something happened long ago when celebrities were finally allowed the same democratizing outlet as every other plebe: “the tool” of social media. It “empowered” them [Read More…]
The Implications of Quentin Tarantino Having A Child
Just when you thought there was for once, at least one man in this world who could be content enough to ride on the laurels [Read More…]
Attempt at Changing Date of Halloween Celebrations Yet Another Sign of Pussy Times
Although this is ironically the most harrowing time in human existence, with the seeming constant threat of extinction looming once, you know, the food shortage [Read More…]