Misanthropy Today

If you don’t know, proposition 8 was a ballot measure here in California that defined marriage as a union between a Man and a Woman. Above you see a sea of hippies, pissing off and inconveniencing people who have jobs to go to. I really don’t care about the politics or the players/voters behind it. I [...]

By Steven Busch I have never been much of a Kanye West fan. I have been a mild fan of some of his hit songs, but for the most part, he is obnoxious, and cocky, to a point where he is an annoying asshole. With that being said, I still approached “808s And Heartbreak” with a clean [...]

Good Evening. I’m at my old apartment that I subletted awhile ago and am now vacating. I’m here cleaning and packing some things and  i decide to hop on the intertron. Because I don’t live here I don’t have phone or cable, blah blah. In an apartment building you can always expect that a few decent non-child molester [...]

everyone’s a critic and most people are djs. The Hold Steady “Most People Are DJs” Like Eskimos have 7 words for snow, because it’s necessary,  I think we Americans need to have 7 words for what level of DJ everyone is. I’m too confused otherwise I once dated a girl who thought that DJs were the coolest [...]

Under the guise of “irony,” hipsterism fetishizes the authentic and regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity. Those 18-to-34-year-olds called hipsters have defanged, skinned and consumed the fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge. Hungry for more, and sick with the anxiety of influence, they feed as well from the trough of the [...]

One of my best friends, Jeremy, got engaged yesterday. Stop by his site Mongo Nation and say congratulations. Jeremy, sorry to use this as blog fodder– really i’m just sorting it out in my own mind. When he first told me, it was a shock. I was like “Wait my friends don’t do that”. Then it occurred to [...]

I’m watching Dateline on Investigation Discovery (ID) tonight, I see this story about a guy named James Saville who was acquitted of charges of trying to kill famous Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio after a seemingly slam dunk case against him. You know who Sherifff Arpaio is, he bills himself as the “Toughest Sherifff In America”, he [...]