Tag: media
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Hot Peppers, Stupid Humans, Culture Clash, and Textual Russian Roulette
Two fascinating culture articles in today’s feed. One about the perception of lowbrow, midbrow, and highbrow cultural norms and another about a “game” called Damage Control that the kids these days seem to be playing. The ideas, ideals, and realities of socioeconomic and cultural class systems fascinate me. How one level looks at the others,…
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Life Imitating Art, Remixing Art, Art Imitating Life, and Remixing Life
Aside from the sad (but expected) death of Dick Smith, one of the greatest special effects makeup artists of all time, there’s a lot of creative stuff going on in the feed today. Not all of it is what I’d call “good” creative–that new Sprint plan that kind of steps all over the idea of…
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Epic Rap Battles, Culture War, Yet More Problematic Politics, Some Interesting Decor, and the Requisite Number of Cat Posts
My sleeping and eating schedule this weekend was even more off from what most would consider “typical” than normal. But, that’s what I get for going out to an 80s mega dance party on Friday, partying with rock stars on Saturday, and spending most of Sunday recovering and trying (failing!) to get back on a…
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Political Progress, Severe SWAT, Riotous Raccoons, Diminutive Dwellings, and Interest Intelligence
In the feed today is a totally adorable video of people feeding a whole passel of raccoons in a parking lot. It’s one of the stupidest things I’ve seen people do on the Internet today. (That’s saying a lot.) I grew up in the woods. I’ve had numerous “close encounters” with raccoons. They’ve all been…