Category: Life

Rick Astley and Nirvana

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Post date November 18, 2016
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What is irony? Maybe the most pragmatic thing to say about irony is that it allows us to experience and enjoy things without risking ourselves. We seem to need irony right now: How would we post-moderns enjoy the bubbly incandescent pop of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”, or the old world zen of […]

Celebrity

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Post date November 18, 2016
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“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face” ~John Updike, Self-consciousness

Photo of Justin Bieber in a headlock

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Post date September 1, 2016
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I am not the first to note the beauty and composition of this photo of Justin Bieber apparently being strangled by fellow club-goer. Not nearly. It was a bit of an internet meme, yielding mash-up photos like this, in which Bieber and his people are placed within a Renaissance milieu in what are shown to […]