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Read moreIs Colin Kaepernick a “distraction”? You’re missing the point. By a mile.
A lot of people believe famous uppity negro CK7 would be a distraction, which tells you things about America you may not want to think about. You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting somebody talking about Colin Kaepernick. Will a team (now on the clock, the Baltimore Ravens) sign him or not? If not, is it because
Read moreGyre: Happy Lughnasadh from S&R
Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced /ˈluːnəsə/, LOO-nə-sə; Irish: Lúnasa, /ˈl̪ˠuːn̪ˠəsˠə/; Scottish Gaelic: Lùnastal, [ˈl̪ˠu:nəsd̥əl̪ˠ]; Manx: Luanistyn, [ˈluanɪst̪ən]) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.
Read moreUmair Haque and “moral universals”: a quick, very important read on the end of America
Working societies need “moral universals” to civilize them. I don’t often do quick-link-to-some-other-post posts, but here I’m making an exception. Umair Haque has an article up at Medium called “The End of the American Experiment: It’s Over. So What Can the World Learn?”
Read moreEpiphany
Art can be an incremental process. Then there are times when, without warning, you find yourself caught in the throes of some muse’s dying, orgasmic spasm, well and truly beyond any rational explanation.
Read moreMcCain torpedoes “skinny repeal”: for once in his life, the faux-maverick gets it right. Sort of.
After a long, distinguished career of talking the talk and then cowering like a whipped bitch caught with her nose in the trash, John “Mavericky McMaverickstain” McCain finally did something right. Republicans’ seven-year quest to wipe out President Obama’s Affordable Care Act came to a crashing halt around 1:30 this morning, when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) shockingly bucked his party and
Read moreKicks
Royalty
… everywhere.
Read moreIcarus (a small self-portrait)
Icarus (a small self-portrait) Dandelions think they’re bluebells. Moths believe they’re butterflies. No one told them, or they wouldn’t listen. What if I’m mistaken, begoggled, peddling DaVinci’s madman machine toward high noon?
Read moreFloyd Mayweather is going to give Conor McGregor the girlfriend experience
And by “girlfriend experience,” I don’t mean the prostitution/sugar daddy thing. I mean the kind of experience that Floyd Mayweather routinely lays on the women in his life. My initial reaction to the talk of a Floyd Mayweather/Conor McGregor match was bafflement: what the fuck are McGregor and Dana White thinking? He’s going to get beaten senseless. If it’s a pure
Read moreOn Broadway: Denver neon…
There are some great old neon signs on South Broadway in Denver/Englewood. These are of the Gothic Theatre. (All shots in this series are taken in Englewood, a ‘burb bordering Denver to the south. But hey, it’s all Denver to me.)
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I’m suffering from DTSD (Donald Trump Stress Disorder); you may be, too
[UPDATED July 16, 2018] I wrote this just over a year ago. And the only thing that was off is that I think I underestimated. I know a lot of people, and I’ve had a year to watch, to listen, to discuss, to take stock. My conclusion is that most of us are worse off than we were when I
Read moreMash The Beatles: Saturday Video Roundup
Up today, the greatest band of all time collaborates with Mark Ronson, Queen, Pink Floyd, A-Ha, Blondie, the Jackson 5, Motley Crue and The Nine Inch Nails. (Bonus points if you got that joke.) We haven’t done a mashup SVR lately, so away we go. This first one has no video, but you have to hear the song.
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