Say what you will about the man or his work, but Jeff Koons is the greatest artist who has ever lived. To promote his emblematically titled retrospective at The Whitney, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Mr. Koons […]
The 2nd Annual CarCar v Georgie NFL Showdown for All the Margaritas: Week One
Last year, Carmen “CarCar” Petaccio and George “Georgie” Gutierrez faced off in one of recorded history’s most competitive and exhaustive battles for a single frozen margarita, The CarCar v Georgie NFL Showdown for All the Margaritas. The competitors were […]
The Insane Video I Made for Some Job I Applied To
Applying for jobs is a total, categoric sham, particularly in postindustrial America. When your country’s chief manufacturing commodity is Gchat conversations, convincing the lizard people plutocracy to underpay you to sit miserably at a desk […]
My Howard Zinn Highlight Reel
The incalculable importance of Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States cannot be expressed in words, so this sentence ends here. Anyone who has read the book should understand, anyone who hasn’t should read it […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Knick Pilot
Healthcare is currently the largest industry in the United States of America. Thanks in large part to momentous advances in sanitation and medical technology, human life expectancy has nearly doubled over the last 100 years, […]
Is Nate Silver A Socially Tone Deaf Tool Bag?
The civil unrest over the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri has raised a host of unanswerable questions. How can an African American President be so utterly dismissive of the […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Lucy
The first time we see Scarlett Johansson in Lucy she’s sucking dumbly on a fountain soda straw, barely listening as her sketchball boyfriend tries to con her into delivering a mysterious package. The last time we see […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Guardians of the Galaxy
“Less is more” is an axiom, “more is more” is not. “Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing” is an axiom, “too much of a bad thing can be a good […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Purge: Anarchy
The high concept at the center of The Purge: Anarchy and its predecessor should make for better drivel than this, but it very definitely doesn’t, and again these are movies whose lofty ideas nosedive in execution to […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 