In a post this morning on gadgetry, Freddie DeBoer makes a broader point: There’s a great insecurity underneath the snark and smug superiority that attends to most enforcement of gadget worship, which is part of a larger tendency on the Internet: people who so desperately need to have their choices validated that they must deny … Continue reading
Other, smarter bloggers have already covered the Fox-News-generated controversy about hip hop artist Common visiting the White House, so I’ll spare most of the commentary. I’ll only say that Common’s Like Water For Chocolate changed everything I thought about music. “The Light” was my favorite song for a year or two, and I played it … Continue reading
