Category: Perspective

  • Going Negative:

    Going Negative:

    The Social Ramifications of Media Criticism Shortly before Birdman won best picture, I was ranting on Facebook about how I find the films of Alejandro Inarritu to be pretentious and self-serious. I also used the word bloviated. This provoked some ire amongst my friendly acquaintances, and some playful verbal fencing online. A couple of wasted…

  • Picking Fights with Friends

    Picking Fights with Friends

    To describe the specific incident that inspired this headline would only distract from the point of the essay, so lets break it down to its essential parts. An event that I did not take part in that I was very much in support of and only observed remotely had amongst its component parts an element…

  • Vaccine Bro x Bro Round 3

    Vaccine Bro x Bro Round 3

    And if they go even farther and claim to know a science that other scientists don’t want you to know, they’re so full of shit they should be capped and sealed and used to generate electricity from all the methane they’re producing.

  • Vaccine Bro x Bro: Round 2

    Vaccine Bro x Bro: Round 2

    Jesus, I don’t know who’s worse: vegans, Crossfitters or the yammering vaccinated. Y’all can’t seem to zip it with your shirtless wods (workouts of the day) and tofu Thanksgivings and braggadocious post. The way you’re flexing it on Facebook, you’d think you’d tapped out Khabib or graduated BUDS summa cum laude. You got a flu…

  • Vaccine Bro x Bro Round 1

    Vaccine Bro x Bro Round 1

    But I want to beat this virus and get our country back to being the high octane, 20 grams of protein per serving, full-throttle, Bernie Sanders regulated, free market, open for business, tax Jeff Bezos back to earth America that I’m not supposed to love but actually do love, genital warts (aka Florida) and all.

  • Pokes and Jabs: A Vaccine Bro by Bro

    Pokes and Jabs: A Vaccine Bro by Bro

    I’m heavy with frustration, Brother, and irritation and a bunch of other -ions. At not only my bosses, but you for not seeing what is so crystal clear: Covid-19 is a proven cocksucker that adapts and adapts and will keep adapting until noone fucking knows how long. By then, what?

  • Double Penetration

    Double Penetration

    Amis takes his humor seriously, and perhaps this is a good working definition of what wit is: humor applied with seriousness, instead of silliness a straight face. The ability to keep straight face, Amis says, is one of the prerequisites of porn. Porn stars are “very bad at acting,” but very good at “keeping a…