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I decide what's cool!I decide what's cool!An examination of the ideology of cool and cultural barometer. This blog explains a lot about current culture, my take on it, provides a critique, and of course has a lot of good, clean fun. From pop culture, to high art, to politics, to neighborho Articles
Cool neighborhoods
2007-08-28 02:42:00 You want to know what else is cool? Cool neighborhoods. The following is the definitive list of cool neighborhoods. In Portland there is Northeast, Hawthorne, Belmont, and Clinton Street.In San Francisco there is North Beach, the Mission, Haight Ashbury, and a few others.In Los Angeles there is Silver Lake.In Seattle there is Capitol Hill. These are all the cool neighborhoods I have time to list right now.The cool neighborhoods are being gentrified right now. This process is turning cool, affordable neighborhoods into havens for unhip yuppies who heard about the coolness of these neighborhoods second hand but are attracted to it. Gentrification is not cool. The only thing cool about it is rejuvenating run down areas. Or if you own some property in a cool neighborhood and the value suddenly sky rockets because people have latched onto the coolness of the area. If I was in that situation I would think that was cool because you would be making massive profit just from being co... More About: Neighborhoods
Blood Meridian
2007-08-28 02:23:00 Blood Meridian is the current book I am reading. Esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition has written, "I venture that no other living American novelist...has given us a book as strong and memorable." In case you're wondering Harold Bloom is a professor at Yale and has written for such publications as the New York Observer.THIS BOOK IS AWESOME. And yes you've probably heard that the author of this fine novel is part of the Oprah book club for his novel The Road which I've also read. He has won a Pulitzer prize for this book. Cormac McCarthy is richly decorated with high brow awards.If you want to read about a young man in the wild Western frontier in 1849 who scalps people for a living and is "the major esthetic achievement of any living author" to quote Bloom again, this is the book for you. It is completely fantastic. Sometimes when I've reading it I have to make sure I'm soaking in 100% of the awesomeness and not being d... More About: Blood
My ads
2007-08-28 00:19:00 Click on my ads. My ads are cool. They are from the good people at Google. My friend works at Google. She brought me some Google clothes all the way from Arizona. I accidentally left them in the trunk of her rental car and now I don't have them but I probably will one day. I like Google and clicking on their ads on my page is the cool thing to do. It will generate revenue for me and this cool blog so I can tell you what's cool.
Mike Gravel
2007-08-27 23:27:00 Mike Gravel rules. He is one of the 2 greatest people running for president. The other is obviously Dennis Kucinich. Mike Gravel served in the United States Senate. Mike Gravel single handedly ended the draft with a 1 man filibuster up against Nixon's cronies. Mike Gravel is always regulating. He doesn't ever act like a pansy for he is too busy stopping stupid shit like the draft.You may have seen Mike Gravel in some of the debates and have thought to yourself, "That Mike Gravel sure is angry!" He is angry at how uncool the current state of affairs is! Mike Gravel knows what's cool like myself so he is outraged by uncoolness.If you don't know who he is or have written him off as someone who reminds you of your crazy uncle during Thanksgiving you need to seriously reevaluate your opinion, do some research, and start thinking pro Mike Gravel thoughts. The draft can get bent, it will never come out of dormancy thanks to Gravel, and your political opinions are wrong (unless... More About: Mike Gravel , Mike
Harper's Magazine
2007-08-27 22:50:00 Harper's Magazine is the coolest magazine in America. Not only is it one of the 2 oldest alongside Scientific American with a healthy start date of 1850, it is the most reasonable publication available today.This article is especially cool. "On the Use and Abuse of History" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine). The article is a Nietzschean critique of Weimar historicity during the Second Reich juxtaposed with Bush's alignment of Iraq with Vietnam, a mere 2 years after he said they have nothing in common whatsoever. Bam! This is the coolest thing you will read today, and probably during the entire week.It's a good thing you have me here to point this out for you.
John Mayer
2007-08-27 22:37:00 John Mayer is most definitely not cool. Right now I am in an internet cafe on my laptop and John Mayer is the unfortunate soundtrack to this experience. I am reminded of the hilarious Pitchfork article Pitchfork: John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change" [Track Review]."But who needs soul when you can have...soulfulness"?I think that sums it up nicely. More About: John Mayer , John |
