Oh Beautiful, For Perspicacious Skies
What shall we celebrate this 4th of July this year? For many in this great republic America, it’s the all too traditional answer: freedom from Canada, after a protracted and […]
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Head In The Clouds
It is said that Anaximander, the legendary pre-Socratic thinker from Miletus in Ionia, student of Thales, and teacher of Pythagoras, was on the toilet dropping a deuce when he decided […]
Dining With Frankenstein
It’s like a Kafka story, really, but directed for our present day reality by the Wachkowski brothers of The Matrix fame. The scale of the conspiracy is that big. Except […]
Shopping In The Matrix
Surely by now you’ve heard about the 16 year old girl who started receiving pregnancy related coupons in the mail care of Target? The ads enticed with discounts on formula, […]
In The Gutter, But Looking At The… Exoplanets
Like so many who find themselves sickened at the epic stupidity of American election politics, I often hear the reverberating echo of “If (dipshit candidate’s name here) gets elected, I’m […]
The Giants Inside Us
In 1964 a British evolutionary biologist named W.D. Hamilton postulated a theory that came to be known as Hamilton’s Rule and it goes something like this: when we find ourselves […]
2012, We Hardly Knew Ya…
So as it turns out, Michael Stipe had it more right than the Mayan calendar. Though rumors have been spreading about the prophesy of apocalypse due for release on December, […]
Time Flies When You’re Having None
Four weeks left in 2011….. Can that be possible? Where were we last New Year’s? Eating thirty-six oysters at the Mermaid Inn and listening to a phatass funk band at […]
Choosing A Financial Occupation
It’s a strange thing tripping through lower Manhattan these days. A few blocks beneath the rebuilding of One World Trade’s Freedom Tower, a project remarkably far along considering the glacial […]
The Benefits of F%#&ing Off
“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to […]
The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks
The decades long rift between Greece and Turkey over the existence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople has become a tumultuous hot-button issue in lieu of Turkey’s potential admittance to the […]
Hurricane of Hype: What does not kill us, makes us softer!
So all the fuss over Irene being a totally devastating experience ended up like most nights with overhyped women… A blue-balled dry humping. Granted, there was serious flooding, but hardly […]
Profits Before Life: Good Thinking!
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You’re An Idiot And It’s Not Your Fault
A slew of recent scientific studies have finally begun to shed light on the likely reason so many people are so astonishingly stupid. Not to worry, but the shocking new […]
The Hubris of the Penis
I am powerful. This is my penis. I am wealthy. Here is my wang, surrounded by gold and diamonds. I am way too old to still be considered attractive. This […]
We’re The Libyan Hit Squad
It was back in the early 1980’s when Muammar Gaddafi was truly terrifying… His bravado commando persona stood in such stark contrast to our bumbling, smiling, airy voiced actor-in-cheif. Or […]
Excito-toxicity: The Fatal Flaw of Mental Viagra
There’s one great myth regarding neuroscience that has been widely disseminated over the years: we only utilize about 10% of our brainpower. This may be true for those propagating this […]
Eva Franco: Beyond The Hemline
“Fashion requires you to multi-task,” says designer Eva Franco amidst the vibrant hum of her downtown L.A. studio. “We’re in production on the Fall 2011 Collection while simultaneously designing Spring […]
Any Requests, Motherf*%!ers?
In 1979, a fella with a guitar proclaimed, hey hey, my my, rock’n’roll can never die, and for all he knew, it probably held water, or at least a few […]
Airport Insecurity
It takes all the self-restraint one can muster at the airport, when asked with a straight face at check-in “if you are carrying any hazardous materials or if anyone has […]
Please Give!
(A monologue heard recently on a New York City A train) Hello, ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry to interrupt your evening. I don’t mean to be a burden, but I’m in the […]
Extremophiles: Noxious & Loving It
There was a highly compelling rumor orbiting the biosphere at the beginning of December that NASA had finally discovered verifiable alien life. It was not clear in aggregators like The […]
Things Fall Apart – The Inevitability of Social Entropy
One of this year’s Field Metal winners– a Nobel Prize equivalent bestowed upon scientists under 40– worked within the second law of thermodynamics to create a novel equation for calculating […]
More Real Than Real: Philip K. Dick’s Visionary Post Humanism
(Originally published in Strange Horizons Science Fiction Magazine June 27, 2011) “Being Human is aspiring to be human. Since it is not aspiring to be the only human, it is […]
Oh, Grow Up
So many of my peers have popped out little ones at this point that I’m starting to feel really out-of-the-poop. In an effort to narrow the “can’t relate” gap, I’ve […]
One Trick Picasso
When exactly did Pablo Picasso paint so much? I saw an old documentary recently called “The Mystery of Picasso”, and there was a clip where he was strolling around his work […]
We’ll Just See About That Won’t We?
America’s taken the lion’s share of ass kicking from the world at large as of late, and like all things American, it was extremely well earned, and most likely paid […]
The Great Indoors
According to a recent Pew Research Poll, the average American spends only 72 minutes outdoors a day. It is a stunning factoid when you consider two things: there are 1440 […]
The Magic Bowl Part 1
Private Ritual, Public Display There’s no better immersion into the vast canon of classical music than an al fresco, starlit night at the Hollywood Bowl. It’s a testament to Los […]
The Magic Bowl, Part 2 – Madness and Musical Creativity
Grand Tours, as they were known in the 17th Century, were responsible for educating and ultimately inspiring our most famous composers. The idea is believed to have originated in England. After an […]