The Hatred of Podcasting Shows like this have a flow that the listener doesn’t actually participate in—the hosts have gone home, you’re the only one in the room, and it’s a dead conversation that’s already happened—but, given the intimacy of how the product is consumed, can get the same psychic impression. On your commute, while […]
Category Archives: silliness
interplanetary neurosurgery
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by homo sapiens sapiens “exearthed” 30 years ago from Earth to Saturn. […] These cases give us the means of reflection to improve the practice of […]
Interviewing yourself
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Aiden Truhen and Nick Harkaway discuss the morality of fiction, the descent of the world, and the Addams Family” AT: Except that we have different writing styles and different ways of being in the world and I’m massively antisocial and live in a houseboat on a middle-European river and you live in London and you’re […]
The future of performance art
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
This Is Not an Interview with Poppy What do you think people will think of social media in the future? People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness. What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work? I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google […]
Almost all true
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
How to Pay Programmers Less To create software, you need programmers. Unfortunately. They are expensive, lazy, and almost impossible to control. The software they create either works or doesn’t, but you still have to pay them, every month. Of course, it’s always better to pay less. However, sometimes they may figure out they are being […]
Drumpf as blunt instrument
Friday, October 14, 2016
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind i am usually loath to comment on specifics of American politics. As a Canadian, i am conscious that i have no standing in the affairs of another country. Mostly though, i wish for a Canada where those affairs don’t matter to us. More than enough politics that […]
bad record contracts
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Why Canadian bands (sometimes) can’t make it in the States “It doesn’t fucking matter that The Hip had limited success in the U.S.,” wrote music journalist and broadcaster Alan Cross in the days after Downie’s diagnosis went public. “There’s only one reason why things didn’t work out: bad record contracts. It had nothing to do […]
A theory
Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Berenstein [sic] Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe In 1992 they were “stEin” in 1992, but in 2012 they were “stAin” in 1992. Some explanations have been proposed. via A.V. Club
“Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were
