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i love you like i love banana bread
fresh out of the oven
with two pads of butter
banana bread–holy shit!
–oh god.
the sun burns brightly
you are a candle
the wax is dripping
oh god
cupcakes on a sunday morning
your jelly doughnut forehead
and frosting on your lips
oh god
March 30th was another significant anti-climax for doomsday-ers. Zapped with seven tera-electron volts, protons underneath the Swiss-French border raced around a 27 kilometer track at a fraction below the speed of light just to smash into each other, play-acting the universe moments after the big bang or, to use the analogy of some scientists, the absolute worst freeway accident imaginable. The astute reader may note that, no matter how fast they were going, an accident …
Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg is, in certain ways, a competition between its two leading characters for the director’s attention. The film opens with Florence, an LA maid whose life consists only of the things she’s been pushed into through necessity or indifference. She goes to a bar, drinks herself into a stupor and sleeps with a guy because she could almost have a conversation with him and, well, he wanted to. She likes playing with the …
The split between conservationists and environmentalists is upon us. Across the country (and beyond it) our beloved national scenery is being threatened by the greens, of all people. More precisely, greens are attacking mountaintops. With windmills.
Greens, naturally, aren’t the only ones attacking mountaintops. The tentative emergence of wind energy in states such as North Carolina is in some ways a response to mountaintop removal, which essentially destroys hilltops in search of coal. This practice …
The last thing crossing most consumers’ minds in a recession is: It would be awfully nice to fill some wall space with a nice piece of locally-produced art. Hmm…
But why is this? Galleries won’t stay afloat on their own – most continue their humble existence on donations and sales of the artwork they feature. Between Minneapolis’s free museums and innumerable art …
“Government is not for sale,” said Alice S. Fisher to the Washington Post some two and a half years ago. As head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, she was involved in the prosecution of Jack Abramoff, a household byword for government corruption and the unwholesome influence of lobbyists.
If she’s telling the truth, recent events beg the question of whether the government is merely a parrot. And if you’ve been doing your civics …
Rare is the opportunity to blatantly pursue your own financial interests and be lauded nationally as a philanthropist for it. T. Boone Pickens, it seems, is a truly blessed man.
The Pickens Plan, which has gained the support of former self-declared ‘mortal enemy’ of Pickens, Harry Reid, would switch natural gas in for diesel as the fuel of choice for trucks in America. Natural gas, Pickens realizes, has several advantages: it emits about …
The PATRIOT act has long faded from popular consciousness and Google seems to be a bigger threat to the concept of privacy. Paranoid speculation is leaning more towards corporate espionage dystopian theories than government-run ones. RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology can accomodate both, and as 2007′s incorporation of RFID chips into U.S. passports demonstrated, it seems to be mostly following the trend.
Radio Frequency Identification refers to …
The Van Gobots – Guantanamo Beach Party
From a band name like the Van Gobots, I had expected to be listening to a kitschy oddball synth-driven band. At least I had hoped there would be quirk. But alas, the album was synthless, quirkless, and rife with pentatonic scale dual-guitar boogery, including a beefy guitar solo on the first track. The singer comes out washy and indistinct, is lacking dynamically, and spews out lyrics …