So, I inadvertently started a pretty ridiculous Twitter meme yesterday. I wrote: Painfully tempted to do a parody rewrite w/John Galt as hipster & Gulch in Williamsburg RT @thecalebbacon: Atlas shrugged and said “meh.” The 60-page speech to be replaced by a Tom Verlaine solo… Which inspired: ziege19 @normative Who is John Galt? Oh, you […]
Entries from August 2010
Hipster Shrugged
August 27th, 2010 · 18 Comments
Tags: Art & Culture · Language and Literature
The New News Cycle
August 25th, 2010 · 10 Comments
David Roberts tweets: Every ‘winger-driven faux story now has two phases. First headline: “Faux story!” Second: “Faux story becomes huge story!” Pathetic. This is actually a bit truncated. The steps are: Faux Story Why is the Em-Ess-Em ignoring this huge Faux Story? After days or weeks of flood-the-zone coverage across multiple conservative media outlets, some […]
Tags: Journalism & the Media
EARWORM: “Summer Mood” — Best Coast
August 6th, 2010 · Comments Off on EARWORM: “Summer Mood” — Best Coast
Tags: Art & Culture