Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
As to why my postings have become rarer than an apt idiom to describe something rare, here are the following projects that have been keeping me busy:
1. Basic classwork at grad school. This quarter is beating me down to the ground. By the way, if any of you readers happen ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
In a combination of the asinine and the obvious, the wealthiest of the wealthies are still spending like Richie Rich coupled with Bruce Wayne and Santa, according to this New York Times article.
I call it asinine because it is. The article at one point describes an upcoming ritzy party at ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
And also NO, NO, NO!
I recently read this article from This Magazine (that's its name) and it's awesome. Basically, it's about an upcoming book called "The Rebel Sell" about how anticonsumerism ends up propping up the consumer society it tries so hard to tear down.Quoth the article:
"This isn’t because ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A lot of the "consumerist" and "anticonsumerist" news comes down to big things. New movies, mass trends or just op-ed writers pleading for people to stop buying so damn much.
The little stuff gets sort of lost. Little stuff like a 16-year-old Australian girl named Marnie Edmiston who has an anticonsumerist ...
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