New look, and maybe more attitude. We do it because we just can’t help ourselves. Back in April, as I marked the tenth anniversary of Scholars & Rogues, I noted the phases we’ve been through, and suggested that we were emerging from a v4 characterized by increasing frustration with the political state of the nation. I said we were very likely
Read moreI sometimes write about sports. Yesterday my beloved Chelsea got the 2017-18 season off to a bad start. There’s good news, there’s bad news, there’s reason for concern but no reason to panic. Read all about it.
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You give it to us. We make money it on it. I think the word you’re looking for is “pimp.” The medicine show is back in town. Meet Mikael Cho, entrepreneur, and purveyor of a whole lotta high-sounding, self-serving rhetorical wankery. You can use his Patented® UnSplash® to Build RELATIONSHIPS®! And relationships are DISRUPTIVE®! You can work your ass off
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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 moreLughnasadh 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 moreWorking 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 moreArt 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.
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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
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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?
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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 moreThere 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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