Category: Commentary
The American (Double) Standard of Consequence
With the wave of two coinciding incidents involving Americans abroad (for yes, A$AP Rocky is, at the end of the day, just another American)–namely, Europe, [Read More…]
The Corporation That Sold A Gun to Mass Shoot Itself
The corporation will sell the noose to hang itself. If it means profits, so be it. And it’s all a variation on a quote often [Read More…]
We Are the Tools of Mass Communication, Not the Other Way Around: On Arbitrary Social Media Blackouts
While the social media blackout of July 3rd, 2019 (which makes it somehow sound almost as historic as the literal blackout of July 13-14, 1977 [Read More…]
The Ease With Which People Adopt “Being Californian”
Even more than New York (City, for the rest of the state is rather nothing to write home about unless you’re Washington Irving), California represents [Read More…]
From 5150 Involuntary Psychiatric Hold to Self-Admittance: Mental Health Perception Has Clearly Changed Based on Britney ’07 vs. Britney ’19
In 2007, amid a barrage of personal struggles including the death of her aunt, divorce from Kevin Federline and losing custody of her children after [Read More…]
Broad City’s “Along Came Molly” Waxes on the Phenomenon of Becoming Irrelevant in NY After One’s Mid-Twenties
As though to drive home the point of just how palpable the void is going to be with regard to an accurate depiction of the [Read More…]
Lifestyles of the Rich and Stupid: Operation Varsity Blues
It wasn’t as though USC needed to further add to the unofficial true meaning (University of Spoiled Children) behind the school’s acronym, but this, naturally, [Read More…]
Andy Warhol Is All Over The American Meme, Literally and Figuratively
“You are exactly what he would have loved,” Kathy Hilton tells her socialite daughter, Paris as they talk about Andy Warhol and flip through old [Read More…]
A Birthday Party in Sicko Mode
As the Kardashian-Jenner juggernaut continues to show America just how needlessly decadent that decadent can be, it should come as no assault to the senses [Read More…]
“Innocent Old White Lady” Racism & Grace Coddington
As the thick of Fashion Week in New York persists, the essentially buried news item of Vogue‘s longtime former creative director, Grace Coddington, being photographed [Read More…]
