Repeat after me: 3D entertainment is going the way of the 8-track, the flying car, the lunar colony. This is because virtual reality is not achieved by stimulating the senses in elaborate ways — making something look real just makes it boring and cheesy, like high definition television. True virtual reality transcends stimulation of thought [...]
The Invisible Front – A New Documentary on the Lithuanian Resistance to Soviet Rule – and my Musings on the Myth of America
Recently I saw a Latino teenager on the subway with tattoos peering from beneath his tank top and headphones blaring brass flavored melancholy tones over his doo rag. His face was calm and stoic. Suddenly I noticed his eyes tearing up and becoming red, his expression unchanged, the stillness of his face unable to stop the moisture from drowning [...]
“Jetlag” – New Wave Heroes Helmed by Smiths Veteran, First Novella of the “Maintenance” series, and Stephanie Rombough’s Lucky Elephants
Jetlag Performing Vanishing Point by New Order at Their First Show Ever at Mercury Lounge in New York City, February 18, 2012. When I was a teenager I had fantasies about where our hometown crew would end up, but the prospect that Andy Rourke, bassist of the legendary Smiths would join it in New York [...]
Death Instinct (Meat is Murder & Meat is the Apple)
Meat In his article “It Happened One Day in the Garden” Michael Gallileo concludes that the apple of Eden was meat. He considers the possibility that when the formerly vegetarian humanoid apes ate meat consciousness started to evolve, which he associates with choice, as a liberation from the more basic instincts. Something rang very true [...]
Free Downloads on the Down Low and Stealing – A Simple Breakdown from Four Points of View
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Idealism (Never Stealing) When I had about a year clean I was so sensitive to the notion of stealing that if I found money on the street I would put it in a separate pocket and use it as donations [...]
My Review of a Higher Power (What?!)
Clip from “On the Road with Steve Hartman,” CBS. Recently I saw a clip From a CBS segment called “On the Road with Steve Hartman” about Secret Santa, an “anonymous businessman” millionaire who travels Pennsylvania’s thrift stores and bus depots and hands out $100 bills around Christmas time. When I saw him hand out [...]
