Month: January 2012
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The Future Of Swearing
My team likes to joke about my obsession with language. I curse too much when I’m excited, never met a pun I didn’t try out and, as a writer, I would describe myself as a subtractive sculptor — I’m really good with the delete button. On the cursing front, I’m trying to chill, but it’s tougher than…
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15 Big Ways The Internet is Changing Our Brains
Not sure I agree with all of this — or with Nicholas Carr, for that matter — but a new study from Online College, much of it very obvious, raises good questions about the effect of the interwebs on our brains… (via Ray Kurzweil): The Internet is our external hard drive Children are learning differently We hardly…
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What It Feels Like Here Most Days
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Jonah Peretti’s “5o Things You Will Never See In Real Life”
A few highlights from Buzzfeed’s “50 Things You Will Never See In Real Life,” by Jonah Peretti: 13. Someone posing emotionally with their dead uncle: 30. A lady with a foot for a body: 50. A cellphone that can actually float on water: 3. Someone with a Zac Efron bedspread: 6. Eminem at the…
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Yayoi Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”
Gotta gotta gotta love Yayoi Kusama. Always have, always will. My friend Ben Austin’s feed reminded me about Kusama’s simple yet striking new show at GOMA. Here’s an excerpt from thisiscolassal, showing what the installation looked like when she started, and what it looks like after Kusama gave thousands of colored stickers to thousands of kids at…
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A Sneak Peek At The New SunDrop Trailer You’ll See In The Season Premiere of Jersey Shore On MTV This Thursday
Why wait for Thursday? Sun Drop Girl is back, and this time she’s found her #citrussoulmate… Tune in to this week’s premiere of The Jersey Shore on MTV, Thursday, January 5th at 10pm EST. And click below if you’re having trouble viewing…
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So What’s Your Magic Number?
“I do think, at a certain point, you’ve made enough money,” said Obama in 2010. Well, it’s 2012 now, it’s hard out there for us pimps, so I didn’t much know wtf to say when a financial advisor recently asked me my magic number. “You know,” he said, “the number that answers all the questions.” “No fucking idea,” I…