The information age is over. If you'd like to attend the wake, please wear black and be courteous to the grieving windows, they've been through a lot.
No, the title doesn't pertain to this blog. I mean, who wouldn't want to read this blog, in all of it pre-templated glory, upon the first look?
Characters that resonate with audiences take on a multitude of identities, each unique to the particular cultural consumer.
The problem with success is that it builds upon itself like sentient Lego bricks, continuing skyward until eventually, one pillar looks a bit ugly, or a awkward arrangement of pieces is necessary to continue.
Look at this girl. She seems perfectly happy and content, what with her working phone, face free of terribly unsightly pores and braces, and if the New York Times' caption is to be believed, she's an honors student as well.
I'll give myself, and the blog, a nice warm welcome back from the busily distracted realm of finals and travels back home (as much as one can consider New Jersey to be a home...) I can't say that I've been overly compelled during this hiatus to put anything online, mainly because the main events that have been swirling around the news sphere have been largely inconsiquential "he said, she said" moments. Did Rep.
Wilco has put their new album up on their site for the world to listen and I, for one, am listening.
Dr. Carlo Strenger is a pretty darn smart guy. A professor at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University, he frequently contributes to The Guardian (a paper that, if you have not noticed, I worship), mostly on the topic of religion and how it pertains to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Typically, I'm the sort of cultural consumer who runs at everything skeptically, is rarely very pleased and finds it almost sinful to consider compromising the complexity of a lengthy, brilliant source material for the sake of introducing it to a wider audience.
UPDATE Not long after the post below came along, Amazon just announced a new model of the Kindle which will directly take aim at newspapers with a bigger, more cumbersome design.
Never allow yourself to be even remotely close to a swastika, even if it's made by children and looks to be incorporated in a backwards Chinese flag.
According to Ben Bernanke, the king of all things monetary (at least until his term is up, which doesn't make him that much of a king,) the economy should be ready and raring to go come the end of the year! Of course, unemployment will still be low, it'll take a long time for us to step back to where we were and the progress will be dependent on the success of the bailout and stimulus packages.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter is leaving his position at the end of his current term, leaving President Obama with that always-difficult decision of nominating a succesor.
Yes, I'm sorry, I got my hands on an album early though less-than golden means. I know music typically isn't the domain of this blog, in fact, I'm pretty positive that there hasn't been a single album review posted at all, unless someone slipped one in after catching wind of my password. The album in question?
Let's examine publicity for just a moment. The dictionary describes it as, "extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication." Good publicity, therefore, is essentially people being cognizant and chattering about something for all of the right reasons.
For years the media has gone from one health scare to another, with each summer bringing with it a new viral terror that will result in a pandemic.
If a contingent of Americans reacted to President Obama's tax plans with tea parties and protests, will the recently announced, significantly more draconian tax measures proposed by Alistair Darling, Britain''s Chancellor of the Exchequer (aka "Head economic honcho") result in a English alternative, perhaps sailing over to the New World and trying to tax our paper products?
Columnist Neel Arora put together a piece this week about the ongoing glut of piracy off of the coast of Somalia, and argued that the pirates are brutal criminals free of honor, who must be dealt with quickly using coordinated military measures.
Phoenix 14 got what they wanted in regard to the previous post (which you'll notice has disappeared), so the issue is a moot point.
When anyone, rich or poor, pays for something, they expect their money's worth. Plop down $5 for a sandwich, and the presumption is that that sandwich will be better than a sandwich that costs $1.
