Archive for April, 2008

Try this little experiment. Pick a public place, a grocery store, a bar, maybe a mall. Stand there with a clip board and ask random strangers what their favorite lolcat is. Ask them if they know that longcat is looonnnggg. See if they know who Anonymous is locked in battle against. We have this weird [...]

What Is Art?

Posted: April 18, 2008 in Aliza Shvarts, Art, Maplethorpe

The internet is all abuzz this week about Aliza Shvarts, a Yale student who issued a press release claiming that she artificially inseminated herself, then took various herbs in order to induce a miscarriage. Repeatedly. Yale responded with a release stating that Shvarts was a performance artists, and that her announcement had been the art [...]

Anyone who has ever used an instant messaging program has probably gotten their share of odd requests and come ons. Many, if not most, pretty high on the offensive scale. I’m not sure why these strange interwub perverts feel the need to show their penises to every stranger that passes by, but they do. I [...]

There’s a kind of story that you just don’t see anymore. Old style science fiction, the kind that sprang not just from visions of the future, but from thoughts and dreams of the past. Elements of the swashbuckler mixed with the great explorer and seasoned with a healthy dose of “imagine if….”. It was the [...]